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NEVERTHELESS: Guyanese song stirring up real trouble in Barbados
6/19/2009
By Eric Lewis
Man yes, it is me who write it and yes the girl who singing it is a real Guyanese. Well that is the typical answer I does be giving people daily who come up to me asking ’bout the GT Advice song or the Guyanese Song as some people like to call it, which got the place in a uproar. As usual with some of them kinda songs I does get mix responses. For the better part I would say most people like, if not love, the song. But from time to time I would meet somebody who feel that it is a indictment on Bajan women and suggests that even if parts o’ the song are true, they should be whispered and not sang.
But the truth is the truth. The truth is that them got some Bajan women who believe that Guyanese women thiefing them boyfriends. Them also got many Bajan men ’bout here who say openly that as long as them live them aint want another Bajan woman, them dealing with strictly Guyanese ’cause the Guyanese more loving and does make them feel wanted.
Of course Bajan women does counter that argument by saying that many Guyanese women get into relationships with Bajan men ’cause them looking for security and possibly resident status, and then they go into all kinda “tricky” stories about the cunningness of some Guyanese women. But whether you like it or not, fellas leaving Barbados and gine Guyana looking for someone to make them happy ’cause them give up on Bajan women.
I was talking to a fisherman fella who tell me that most mornings he would get up at 3 o’ clock to go fishing, and when he had his Bajan woman he had to get up, make his own tea and put together a lil meal to take fishing. He say one time he overslept ’cause he did real real tired and when he get up he beg his Bajan woman to help him out with a cup o’ tea and a sandwich while he sorted himself out to go fishing, and the woman cheupse, quarrel and then tell him he could stop at the automart on his way down and buy a cup o’ coffee and a hotdog, and then she put the pillow over her head and went back to sleep.
He say he got a Guyanese woman now and when he get up at 3 in the morning to go fishing, his GT woman got cornmeal pap, scramble eggs and bakes done fix up, juice in a bottle to take fishing, a couple sandwiches and some fruit. He say he aint wanta see another Bajan woman as long as he live, so of course you know he love the song.
I met a lady in the car park of the supermarket and while she liked the song she said it speaks mostly of “learning to wine” like the Guyanese to keep you man from leaving. She asked me what about the developmental and educational role a woman plays in a man’s life and why I didn’t address that in song. I had to tell her that I aint teaching gender studies at Cave Hill, I have four minutes to say what I want to say in the song and that is what I do.
I also met another Bajan woman who said she love the song, because she and her husband had a good laugh about it. She said one evening about 3 or 4 she was looking up into the fridge and said aloud, “boy, I don’t even know what to cook today!”
And her husband laughingly replied, “you feel that at this time of the day that you should be peeping up in a fridge looking to thaw down chicken talking ’bout you aint even know what to cook today? Now if I did marry a Guyanese all like now I would be getting ready to eat again ’cause I wouldda had my food since morning.”
I also hear a story of a man who was at home with his Bajan woman and when the song came over the radio he run and he turn up the volume up to all and was nodding his head in approval to the advice the singer was giving to Bajan women. He say the next morning when he woke up, he found fried plantain, egg, bacon, toast and goat milk and his working clothes pressed and put out. All I would say is that it seems like somebody got the message.
Now the Guyanese girl is singing in Bacchanal Time this year and Bacchanal Time kicks open its doors on Sunday June 28 at the Party Stand on the Harbour Road and will be judging on Wednesday July 1 at the same place, I looking forward to seeing you there. See ya.
(e-mail:madderic@hotmail.com)
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