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Thread #138380   Message #3171662
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
16-Jun-11 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Subject: RE: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Lyr. Add: HAPPY LAND OF CANAAN
Spiritual (Baptist)

Chorus:-
Happy Land of Canaan.

Come le' we go to the happy land,
I said, come le' we go to the happy land,
Ah, riddip (trumping), come le' we go to the happy land,
Hep-riddip (trumping)
I say le' we go to the happy land,
Huskiridi (trumping),
Hep-riddip (trumping).

Milk and honey in the happy land,
Yea, you put on your shoes in the happy land,
Ah, plenty honey in the happy land,
Heh, Lord, in the happy land,
Yea, you get so happy in the happy land,
Yea, Lord in the happy land,
Oh, milk and honey in the happy land,
Yea, milk and honey in the happy land.

Sung by Lord Invader and Duke of Iron, with chorus and drums.
Album Calypso at Midnight; Midnight Special Concert, December, 1946, Town Hall, New York.