The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66111   Message #2889988
Posted By: matt milton
19-Apr-10 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rum and Coca Cola
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rum and Coca Cola
I noticed a whole entirely different set of lyrics here:

http://www.mentomusic.com/images/jcs7.jpg

I doubt these are "the original" lyrics at all - particularly as they are from a 1950s booklet called "Jamaican Calypso Songs" and R&CC is Trinidadian.

However, these lyrics are great. They have nothing to do with the sense of the chorus - they're basically just 'floater' lyrics in the fine tradition of folksong bawdy/nonsense/childish floater lyrics a la fiddle tunes, worksongs etc.

They do read like the sort of thing a naughty Calypsonian would write. The last verse is equal parts Benny Hill and Samuel Beckett!