Irie Tempo

It's Carnival time again
You gotta run around the bend
And tell yuh, friend, that Carnival is here again
As I would feel yuh
Yeah My gosh
I've seen Carnival in Rio
Mas in Toronto
Fiesta in Mexico
And I've seen New Orleans Mardi Gras bacchanal
But nothing to beat the
Trinidad Carnival
When yuh hear de tempo
De land vibrates with
Tempo
De island like one big disco
Jammin Soca jammin
Jammin Calypso
Hear dem bass line moving
See all dem waistline groovin'
Costumes of worth
Riddim like dirt
It's THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH
I've seen New York's greatest actors
Hollywood designers
And Broadway's great producers
But designers and de, actors, and producers in Carnival
Broadway doh have gotten over dem at all
When yuh hear de tempo
De land vibrates with
Tempo
De Island like one big disco
Jammin Soca jammin
Jammin Calypso
Hear dem bass line movin
See all dem waistline groovin
Costumes of worth
Riddim like dirt
It's THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH
Hear de baseman playin
Pom poo poom poom .poom poom poom poom
Prut tu tum tum
Eh I've heard tunes by Mantovani, Bach and then Tchaikovsky
The great classics of history
But on Carnival day I've heard the sweetest harmony
Every street corner sound like a symphony
When yuh hear de tempo
De land vibrates with
Tempo
De island like one big disco
Jammin Soca jammin
Jammin Calypso
Hear dem bass line movin
See all dem waistline groovin
Costumes of worth
Riddim like dirt
It's THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH
If yuh see the king ore Persia
Or the Czars of Russia
Or warriors from Africa
Gleaming glittering in gold
Rocking to Calypso
Takeoff Dey mask one ah dem is a Lord Laro
Rocking to de tempo
De land vibrate with
Tempo
De island like one big disco
Jammin Soca jammin
Jammin Calypso
Hear dem bass line movin
See all dem waistline groovin
Costumes of worth
Riddim like dirt
It's THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH
Tempo tempo
De land vibrates with
Tempo
De island like one big disco
Jammin Soca jammin
Jammin Calypso
Hear dem bass line movin
See all dem waistline groovin
Costumes of worth
Riddim like dirt
It's THE GREATEST SHOW ON THE EARTH
Some drinking white rum and some drinking cool beer
Some having fun on the inside
Some havin fun on the Eastern side
While some on de Western side as I-would say
Place kinda crowded cloudy now
People having fun as the night come down as I would feel dis ting
It's Carnival time again
It's Carnival time again
As I would tell you
(To be cont'd)