official small island pride from calypso awakening from the emory cook collection 1 carnival celebration verbal bravado abounds as the calypsonian issues a challenge to well known hoodlums like mastifay and cutouter there were several calypsos of his type since the singers were easy to pret to various underworld charecters the sparse instrumentation featuring prominent guitar and maracas and no horns harks back to an earlier pre commercial era of calypso chorus ah mastifay mastifay meet me down by the croisee and cutouter cutouter meet me down by the green corner well i waiting for this carnival to jump up with these criminals i going to arm myself with a big stick any man in town i meet that is real licks cause i done tell mammy already mammy do do tie up your belly cause is murder federation with war and rebellion when they bar me by the junction chorus monday morning i wake up early two drink of vat to steam up my body and i jumping up like i crazy i alone go collapse the city with my razor tie on to my poul i like a badjohn in the 18th century and with my stick in my waist i chipping in space is to spit in ole nayga face chorus well to show you i in for trouble on my right hand is my steel knuckle my chooker in my left pocket boys my pooya under my jacket and i jumping up like if i wild i know they bound to say that is old style but they could beat me like a child i taking licks with a smile and i pelting war like i wild chorus well as man i consult my doctor to check my lungs and my liver i done pay of my lawyer so he could pay off my undertaker and as i have no mother nor father they could post me back to grenada cause i tell mr chance i done pay in advance to bury me down in grand anse chorus vat 19 locally made rum type of wood frequently used in stick fighting dagger machete 