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Thread #61407 Message #993375
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Jul-03 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone for cricket?
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone for cricket?
And here is another version of "Cricket Lovely Ctricket" by Prince Far I:
"Cricket lovely cricket And this is how I saw it. England has tries their best But West Indies has won the Test. In fact the series me a tell you.
Under heavy bowling, So me track Mr. Golden, Fi go ask bout the bowling He said check Mr. Holding And let me tell you bout the heavy heavy bowling: How is that Umpire? Clean bowl!
So I man dolly down and hold meself a radio, And go down a beach, As soon as I reach down there, one more wicket gone. Michael Holding me a tell you iya, yeah. Say him juggle under heavy heavy bowling What a heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy bowling From the man called Michael Holding.
Boy me a tell you the wicket dem fly like lightning Boy me a tell you is a first time the wickets fly so It s a record! Fourteen wickets in one series. Me a tell you, bwoy, the dreadlocks him heavier than lead And him dreader than dread Let me tell you bout the man call Michael Holding, Him full of bowling Heavy heavy bowling, yeah. Me a tell you bout a man call Michael Holding.
So I man dolly down a beach with I man radio As soon as I reach down there, Another wicket gone Michael Holding again me tell you: How is that Umpire? Clean bowl!
England has tried their best, But West Indies has won the Test. In fact the series. But seeya, but must, of course Yeah.
Cricket lovely cricket. And this year I really saw it. And this is how I really know it. Yeah."
And here is an article by Stuart Hall, about Cricket and the West Indies contribution to the way it is played and watched and celebrated in song- Calypso kings