Split Me In Two by Mighty Dougla

Cletus Ali better known as Mighty Dougla, was a Trinidadian calypsonian who won the island's Calypso King title in 1961. From the Hell Yard area of Port of Spain, Ali was a popular calypsonian in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was born a Dougla, to a Muslim Indian father and an African mother. 'Dougla' is a usually pejorative term used in the Caribbean for someone of mixed (African and Indian) descent. In addition to adopting this as his stage name, he referred to this in one of his best known calypsos, "Split Me In Two", dealing with the Dougla's position in the Black/Indian political division on the island and proposed repatriation ("I am neither one nor the other, six of one, half a dozen of the other, If they serious about sending people back for true, They got to split me in two"). This was one of the songs (along with "Lazy Man") that won him the Calypso King title at the 1961 carnival.