BRO. VALENTINO [the People's Calypsonian] 'Life is a Stage' from the album THIRD WORLD MESSENGER

LIFE IS A STAGE
The quintessential Valentino calypso, immortal and classic, could not get him to the finals of the 1972 Monarch competition on Dimanche Gras night. Recorded several times, it made its first studio on the 45 rpm [Straker’s Records S0023] and then ‘Third World Messenger’ in 1976. Valentino has sung it in many a competition - Independence, Veterans, East Zone, many concerts and shows. He reissued the original on ‘Calypso Antiques’ in 2001 and recorded a new version on the ‘Life is a Stage’ album 1998.
Life is a stage and we are the actors
And everybody have a part to play
Like a never-ending movie
With all different characters
Each one have a role to portray
Down to the scavengers and them barristers
All them doctors and lawyers and these ministers
So this honourable this and this honourable that
And this lady so and so
Is a part all these people playing
I want you to know
So don’t blame Dr. Williams [the politician]
Anytime you find you get bad administration
That was meant to be
The fella is playing his role superbly
Don’t blame the judges for their injustice
How you go blame the hoodlums I say
Is a part they come out to play
This movie start in the Garden of Eden
The star and co-star was Adam and Eve
They played their part
Now they are dead but not forgotten
And when I study the role of Adam
It makes me grieve
Shows man should be able to take example
And see from the beginning woman was trouble
But then your role is according to your script I say
And your fate would be judgment day
And according to the part that you play
The Master go pay
Now down to the little children
From the time they born
They join Life’s great movie
But some of we fathers my friend
Through some wicked women never see our babies
Although abortion is just an act
Believe me friends I don’t like that part at all
Plenty women go bawl when the curtain fall
Say what you want, believe I’m not joking
The women are the greatest performers for me
Their role always important
And down to their love making
These people could win an Academy
They could put you in heaven
They could put you in hell
Woman could put man places
Man would shame to tell
So then man must want to kill
Because the part he have to play
Is to love with his heart and soul
So you see where the females
Always have the better role
So don’t blame Christine Keeler
Just because she wreck the lives of some politicians
She played a sexy character
And she caught Profumo with her sexy actions
So we should tip our hats to England
And say hoorah for good old Christine
The greatest actress, don’t doubt
That the world has seen
This place have some scenes that I go off on
The acting is greater than on Broadway
Not even on the movie screens
You does see people perform
Like Trinidadians I talking ‘bout
And how they could play
Trinidad as we all know, chief role is calypso
Then featuring playing pan and dancing limbo
But for playing the part
Of smart man and smart woman
I could bet my hand
And for creating a big impression is a Trinidadian
Now the ambitious guy with the jacket and tie
Who does walk the road and hold up he head high
You will shock to know
Where that same ambitious fella head does go
But is a part he come out to play
And we really can’t treat the fella with scorn
And as they say
The show must go on

[@marcogg25]

Muchas gracias, estaba buscando ésta versión. Saludos desde Perú

[@elliotfrancois6949]

This musical intro is sublime, Sir Zeno.

[@hollisterfleming202]

inside of my Kaiso education , this Composer was the missing link in the chain

[@waynedemming3018]

Reminds one of a Shakespearean quote : " all the world's a stage".(As you like it).