Trini Christmas Cake

©Paul Gallagher Dec. 11, 2017 Rev Dec 7-19

Half moon - in de sky

Near zero - North ‘a 49

Trini Christmas - on my mind

Trini Christmas - on my mind

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make....

Cake so heavy - give me backache

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

Rum id up, Spice id up, Love id up... non stop

Is de season to celebrate, 

Celebrate wid parang

Dancing an singing, 

Cooking an cleaning 

‘till we can’t stand

No warm id up, 

Let’s start id up 

Wid rum an puncha créme

I wanna piece a Christmas Cake......

Trini Cake ......Black Christmas Cake

Fin-a-lly, jet make touch down; 

Cra-zy taxi ride, into town

To Auntie Asha and Uncle Edwin; 

Already, Christmas lights – 

All around.........

Palm trees soca in de breeze

Parang from back yard, 

And parang from de beach….

No one can fall asleep.

Christmas time; time to fresh up,

New brushes, rollers an cans ‘o’ paint 

Uncle an Aunty ready to jump

Hang new curtains dat Auntie Asha make,

We gonna decorate.

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make....

Cake so heavy - give me backache

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

Rum id up, Spice id up, Love id up... non stop

Is de season to celebrate, 

Celebrate wid parang

Dancing an singing, 

Cooking an cleaning 

‘till we can’t stand

No warm id up, 

Let’s start id up 

Wid rum an puncha créme

I wanna piece a Christmas Cake......

Trini Cake ......Black Christmas Cake

Early morning, new stove come in

One by one cousins in de kitchen 

Assembly line, hand over hand, 

Cloves, sweet meat and cornmeal 

Making pastelles ........

All day long chitter chatter drinking sorrel

Me and Uncle Edwin start to clean 

Font yard an de porch

Friends lean over de fence 

Like parrots, to watch......

Out come de wine 

An out come de rum

Out come de cuatro, bottle an spoons

Looks like de cleaning

Won’t be done too soon.

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make....

Cake so heavy - give me backache

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

Rum id up, Spice id up, Love id up... non stop

Is de season to celebrate, 

Celebrate wid parang

Dancing an singing, 

Cooking an cleaning 

‘till we can’t stand

No warm id up, 

Let’s start id up 

Wid rum an puncha créme

I wanna piece a Christmas Cake......

Trini Cake ......Black Christmas Cake

6 PM an Christmas lights

Shining so bright

Christmas stockings, 

Hang de palm tree... 

Not too high.....

Auntie Asha still in de kitchen 

an floors do shine

Sky so dark 

All de stars a special light….

Dog bark announcing 

Parr-an-dero 

Get ready for de chak chak, guitars an toc toc

Come de kitchen, parang all night long.... 

‘Til all de ham is gone.........

Call de neighbours... roti an rum......

Dancing and laughing and sing-along

It’s Christmas time, Christmas time, 

Limin, limin all night long

It’s Christmas time, Christmas time, 

Limin, limin all night long

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

I wanna piece - a Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make....

Cake so heavy - give me backache

Trini Cake .... Black Christmas Cake

Rum id up, Spice id up, Love id up... non stop

Is de season to celebrate, 

Celebrate wid parang

Dancing an singing, 

Cooking an cleaning 

‘till we can’t stand

No warm id up, 

Let’s start id up 

Wid rum an puncha créme

I wanna piece a Christmas Cake......

Trini Cake ......Black Christmas Cake