Bajan Tuh De Bone

...excellent clip! You catch that young skinnybutt goober taking the bow after hitting the pitch in that pickup cricket match? Looks like one of Jonny's mates in Lane's Gap...I 'bout shot coffee through my nose...

trudogg wrote:...excellent clip! You catch that young skinnybutt goober taking the bow after hitting the pitch in that pickup cricket match? Looks like one of Jonny's mates in Lane's Gap...I 'bout shot coffee through my nose...

Oh yeah...I was one of those little skinny youngsters playing cricket in the village and de school yard 35 years ago. And life was so much simpler then. Now I understand what my grandmother meant when she said "enjoy yuh youth...cause when yuh grow up it ent gine be nuh bed uh roses". And I understand what The Mighty Sparrow meant when he sang "Education is a must".

Gearbox wrote:Oh yeah...I was one of those little skinny youngsters playing cricket in the village and de school yard 35 years ago. And life was so much simpler then. Now I understand what my grandmother meant when she said "enjoy yuh youth...cause when yuh grow up it ent gine be nuh bed uh roses". And I understand what The Mighty Sparrow meant when he sang "Education is a must".

...if we had only listened to Granny a bit harder when we was young, we'd all prolly be a bit bettah off today...

trudogg wrote:

Gearbox wrote:Oh yeah...I was one of those little skinny youngsters playing cricket in the village and de school yard 35 years ago. And life was so much simpler then. Now I understand what my grandmother meant when she said "enjoy yuh youth...cause when yuh grow up it ent gine be nuh bed uh roses". And I understand what The Mighty Sparrow meant when he sang "Education is a must".

...if we had only listened to Granny a bit harder when we was young, we'd all prolly be a bit bettah off today...

Ones life dont only depend on what they do ..... there's a world full of ppl out there to impact ur life in one way or another . Hindsight says u would have made different choices but whos to say u 'd end up with a better life ? 'n what is a better life anyway ?

Thanks to Walter who emailed this clip to me...

Great clip, GB! Love de music too.

And nice clip as well from Walter!

You evah suck cane DLT?

Gearbox wrote:You evah suck cane DLT?

Yup, did plenty uh dat back in de 1970s & 1980s during my trips to Bim

Cane does still get harvest in dey, right? But jess in smaller quantities now compared to 20+ years ago?

i swiped dat frum cross de road

Walter wrote:i swiped dat frum cross de road

So dah mean dat I cud get charge fuh accepting stolen goods. ...

DLT2000 wrote:Yup, did plenty uh dat back in de 1970s & 1980s during my trips to Bim

Cane does still get harvest in dey, right? But jess in smaller quantities now compared to 20+ years ago?

Yeah...in smaller quantities...and mainly by machines these days.

Gearbox wrote:

DLT2000 wrote:Yup, did plenty uh dat back in de 1970s & 1980s during my trips to Bim

Cane does still get harvest in dey, right? But jess in smaller quantities now compared to 20+ years ago?

Yeah...in smaller quantities...and mainly by machines these days.

The true picture of harvesting cane is one of the bajan cane cutter with his cane cutting bill

patchypants wrote:The true picture of harvesting cane is one of the bajan cane cutter with his cane cutting bill

Heh heh

Here's an ole photo

DLT2000 wrote:

patchypants wrote:The true picture of harvesting cane is one of the bajan cane cutter with his cane cutting bill

Heh heh

Here's an ole photo

Yeah man that is what I am talking about, those old Bedford lorries,that hot sun, that sweet cane smell,now that,s old Bubadus

patchypants wrote:The true picture of harvesting cane is one of the bajan cane cutter with his cane cutting bill

Yeah...but dah was a hard life. Thank goodness our people don't have reap cane that way anymore.

Just yestuhday I was telling de trildren bout dem days.
How de fellas wud wait by de St. Clements school fuh wen de trucks come down outta Pie Corner - mostly from de Cove plantation.
Dem ole trucks din had nuh lotta power so wen dey get by de lil slope dey wud slow down & de fellas wud "reap" dem share offa de truck.
Further down dey wud get hit again by Round Rock hill ..if dem fellas din get enuff offa "Lowland Goat Kiddy" as we used tuh call de lil tractor dat Lowland used tuh operate.

Gearbox wrote:

patchypants wrote:The true picture of harvesting cane is one of the bajan cane cutter with his cane cutting bill

Yeah...but dah was a hard life. Thank goodness our people don't have reap cane that way anymore.

true, true

Jock wrote:Just yestuhday I was telling de trildren bout dem days.
How de fellas wud wait by de St. Clements school fuh wen de trucks come down outta Pie Corner - mostly from de Cove plantation.
Dem ole trucks din had nuh lotta power so wen dey get by de lil slope dey wud slow down & de fellas wud "reap" dem share offa de truck.
Further down dey wud get hit again by Round Rock hill ..if dem fellas din get enuff offa "Lowland Goat Kiddy" as we used tuh call de lil tractor dat Lowland used tuh operate.

Wunna did too lazy tuh guh and brek wunna own cane?

We used tuh do dah too but if yuh kin get cane already cut & de trash strip off why do de hard wuk?
Wunnuh evuh visit dem ole factory during crop?
Mu fadduh wuk fuh lil while at Fairfield (Dah's de wun just east of St. Lucy's church). Dat was long before my time doah.
We used tuh guh to both Springhall & Fairfield tuh get liquor NOT RUM Gearbox , I mean de partly process cane juice. Yuh cud get de raw wun wich is basically de strained juice or de crack liquor wey it was partly boiled down. Black, thick & sweet