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20 Jun 11 - 08:13 PM (#3173590) Subject: Lyr Add: MADAME KHAN (Calypso) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: MADAME KHAN Lord Caresser. 1930s I never see a woman with a right hand so One from she nail me to a door I really thought I was dead When a nail in the door went right through my head. Chorus:- Hold your hand, Madame Khan You'll hear the same from woman and man Talk about a woman bad like a crab Your heart and soul all she would grab Cut out your pocket and leave you to groan Beat you with big stick, bottle and stone. Not me in this kind of thing Friend, I rather to walk about daily and sing I could make my living in an easier way Then to have a woman licking me every day I never see another human like that She boast how she big and strong and she fat The female *Carnera a heavyweight Breaking down the scale at ninety-eight. Such a desperado can't tackle me She'll be coming to meet her own destiny Though if I slip I slide or lose my post She'll give me all the blows I want, God knows. She got the heart of an octopus That nigger woman too dangerous When she saw she couldn't put an end to my life She even tackle me with an old grass knife. From Linden Lewis, 2003, The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean, p. 156. Univ. Florida Press. *Carnera was an Italian heavyweight who retired while still healthy and returned to Italy with the money he made. |
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20 Jun 11 - 08:26 PM (#3173594) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Madame Khan (Calypso) From: Q (Frank Staplin) A rather unsatisfactory orchestral version is on youtube. The video starts out with pictures of East Indians but the calypso is about a black woman. Google turns up a couple of sites with mp3 of Lord Caresser singing it. |
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13 Feb 24 - 06:36 PM (#4197142) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Madame Khan (Calypso) From: GUEST,R. Little There is another musical version on You tube by the New Orleans band "Tuba Skinny" |