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Steel Band War

by Lord Invader & his Calypso Group

on Yankee Dollar (1940), Calypso Travels (1959), Calypso in New York (2000)

I intended to go back
But those Marabuntas biting like bad jacks, they biting hard
I intended to go back
But those Marabuntas biting like bad jacks

I am happy in the U.S.
Not going back until they have peace and rest
What they fighting for, goodness knows
Marabuntas and Deperados

Cutlass, bottle, and stone
That was the ammunitions we had at home
But now, partner, when the police make raids
Marabuntas discharging hand grenades

For what I've read and heard
They blocked the whole traffic on Laventille main road
They blocked that village, where I was residing
Imagine how my relatives was hiding

I heard quite on the hills in John-John
They had an armored tank and a tommy gun
And from good sources I understand
They had more ammunitions than the Egyptians

The chorus is Cutlass, bottle, and stone
That was the ammunitions we had at home
But now, partner, when the police make raids
Marabuntas discharging hand grenades

The steel band has an association
Just as strong as the United Nation
But yet they have no behavior
They more stubborn than Colonel Nasser

But if they moving to Long Island
Well the Lord Invader have got a plan
I'm going to charter ATA
And bet your life I am going away

The chorus is Cutlass, bottle, and stone
That was the ammunitions we had at home
But now, partner, when the police make raids
Marabuntas discharging hand grenades

They have some hooligans back in Britain
So Eric Williams sent more Trinidadians
But don't forget Marabuntas
Deperados and Invaders

And when scattered them 'round Notting Hill
I know they got to come to a standstill
With some cases of Vat 19 rum
They will be more dangerous than any H-bomb

The chorus is Cutlass, bottle, and stone
That was the ammunitions we had at home
But now, partner, when the police make raids
Marabuntas discharging hand grenades