Mas in Brooklyn

Let me tell you something
'Bout Labor Day in Brooklyn
Everybody jumping
Labor Day in Brooklyn, hey
Every West Indian jumping up like mad
Just like on Carnival Day in Trinidad
Yankee and all listening to the steel band beat
Rolling in canal just like in Charlotte Street

And if you hear them with mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Early in September
That is fête to remember
When they say Labor Day
That is New York J'ouvert
All the people from the Virgin Island
Jump in the streets of New York like wild Indian
Ah mean fungee and fish with rice and peas by Myra
And 116th Street in Harlem on fire

And if you hear them with mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Nighttime in Manhattan
Now things start to happen
When the boat ride over
Man have to run for cover
Twenty woman to one man in New York
Ah mean a man like a piece o' gold anywhere he walk
When they drink up they booze you better run way quick
Otherwise you go have to beat them off with a stick

When they start with mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

You could be from St. Clair or John John
In New York all that done
It ain't have no who is who
New York equalize you
Bajan, Grenadian, Jamaican, "toute moun"
Drinking they rum beating they bottle and spoon
Nobody can't watch me and honestly say
They don't like to be in Brooklyn on Labor Day

They must mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home

Mas' play mas'
Mas' in you mas' play mas'
Even though ah feeling homesick
Even though ah tired roam
Just give me meh calypso music
Brooklyn is meh home