I think it's a good first effort. Your first verse is a bit weak. Look at Sparrow's: Well the girls in town feeling bad No more Yankees in Trinidad They're gonna close down the base for good Them girls have to make out how they could He gets the situation established and located in the first couplet, all his rhymes are hard consonants, and it ends with a punchline (that also leads nicely into the next stanza). Yours is less focussed (and I am not sure the last line scans). I like the verse about vote-rigging. According to Sparrow, the original lyrics for the song were: Jean and Dinah, Rosita and Clementina Came to me one morning After they completed their shopping Well they told me honey We never seen more luxury More than when we stopped And went in to Salvatore to shop. Another approach is to pick some interesting local event or character to write a calypso about.
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