7th Annual
Taste of the Caribbean
& Jerk Festival
Free Admission
Saturday, August 4, 2012
1pm to 11pm
Mortensen Riverfront Plaza
in Hartford
song of
Touris, white man , wipin his face,
Met me in Port au Prince, Roseau, Kingston, Bridgetown,
Georgetown, St John's, XXXX market place.
He looked at m'ol' clothes brown wid stain,
An soaked right through wid de Caribbean rain,
He cas his eye, turn up his nose,
He says, 'You're a beggar woman, I suppose?'
He says, 'Girl, get some occupation,
Be of some value to your nations.'
I said, 'By God and dis big hell of...
You mus recognize a Island woman.
But today mi mind being a beggar woman
Cuz this here cause is making value to mi Caribbean
'So when you see dese ol madras brown wid stain,
An soaked right through wid de Caribbean rain,
Don't cas your eye or turn up your nose, no even say a chups
But jus give just give to kip the taste alive in Hartford
Don't judge a woman by her patchy madras clothes,
I'm a strong woman, a proud woman, an I'm free,
Free as dese mountains, free as dis sea,
I know myself, an I know my ways,
An will sing wid pride to de end o my days
Praise God and the soul of an m'big right han
I will live an die a Caribbean woman.'