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Thread #146133   Message #3383492
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
29-Jul-12 - 11:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Wife and Mother (calypso - Lord Kitchener
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Calypso, 'Wife and Mother.'
Also known as "Mother's Choice."

When you sing it, you put in your name after "you'll have to excuse."

Lord Tanamo sang it in ska, and sang "Excuse Tanamo."

I suppose the Jolly Boys are saying some name like "Latimer" (!?). There's a slight possibility that the Jamaican Jolly Boys were more familiar with the Jamaican Lord Tanamo's version (or some Jamaican mento that came before them), and unknowingly mangled the word.

Haven't heard the Chaps. But the site says their is based on the Jolly Boys. So they may have just mumbled what they didnt understand.