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  • Mighty Sparrow: Sa Sa Yea

    From carib909@gmail.com@21:1/5 to guan...@gmail.com on Tue Oct 30 22:08:11 2018
    Can you post the original lyrics for Sa Sa Yea please?

    On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 1:56:24 PM UTC-8, guan...@gmail.com wrote:
    I know I'm late with this reply but in case somebody else is interested, here it is. By the way, I was born and raised in Dominica, island-neighbour of Martinique! I'm not an official translator, so the creole/kweyol grammar police who will surely
    criticise can save it! :)

    What is this? What is this?
    My God, man you are killing me!
    Get up! (4x)
    Open the door boy, I'm leaving!
    What is this? What is this?
    My God, Sparrow you are killing me!

    What is this? What is this?
    My God, man you are killing me!
    I want money to play carnival.
    This thing is making me sick.
    What is this? What is this?
    My God, man you are killing me!

    What is this? What is this?
    My God, man you are killing me!
    Mother, look at my misery with a man over a thing like this!
    What is this? What is this?
    My God, man you are killing me!

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  • From jordi.ramiro@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 8 03:09:36 2019
    A pretty little Martiniquan girl
    Oh well she come for the Carnival
    She wnat to play with George Bailey
    But she ain’t have no money at all
    Ah tell she ah going pay for she
    But she got to spend the night with me
    She consented but when we began
    If you hear this Martiniquian bawl

    Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh
Lavay Lavay Lavay Lavay
Ouvert la portla macko sa say deefay
Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh

    She try to run and block the door
    Ah say doo doo what your frighten for
    And then ah give she some more money
    She decide she going try me again
    Don’t matter how ah take it cool
    Ah mean, she kicking like a bloody mule
    With a kind ah pitiful moaning
    If you hear how she groaning in vain

    Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh
Mor vlay laijah pou jway Carnival
Baggi sa ah car fe mweh mal
Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh

    She beg me like a child to stop
    But not for hell ah won’t get up
    Ah say when ah spend currency
    Ah don’t feel, ah don’t see, ah can’t hear
    She tell me well please be kind
    This time ah moving like a ball ah twine
    Ah say you better take it easy
    Cause you can’t get me money pooh- even

    Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh
Gadday meezeh mweh ma ma
Aite norm touvay yah baggai cor eeh
Sa sa yea, sa sa yea
Bunjay, misyeay ou car choo yea mweh

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