Afro-Beat - 40th Anniversary Commemorative Issue

Mr. Righteous - Afropan's Blazin' Pumpkin

Afropan's Blazin Pumpkin

Halloween 2010

Suzette said I can’t just post The Blazin Afro Pumpkin

Then sit back without saying a lil something

I don’t really know what the hell I was thinking

But last Sunday, Mr. Riteous, decide to carve a pumpkin

How about a spooky bat? Or a scary cat.

A ghoulish face, with eyes big and fat.

A great big spider, to make you scream and shout

Or a Vampire, with a bloody mouth?

All these good suggestions my daughter did say

But from the kitchen I heard a voice pulling me a different way.

You know I don’t really like this Halloween thing

Cause back in Trinidad, is candles we would be lighting

It's All Souls night, the night of the Dead.

Why you don’t go say some prays with her instead.

That voice, held the proxy vote, and had veto rights you see

On what the final outcome of this pumpkin carving could be

So I decide to forego arbitration, and be politically correct

And carve something she will ultimately love and respect.

Man ideas start to come like when the ..ish hit the fan

This pumpkin has to portray something, pertaining to steelpan.

So with no real experience, just a burning love in meh heart

My daughter and I, on the pumpkin we start

I cut off the top, she dig out the guts, squishing and scraping, clearly having fun

Me, worried as ever, sit down wondering. How it will look when we done

She said it won’t matter, try your best and stick to the plan

So we taped up the stencil and started poking out the words.. AFROPAN

But halfway through the thing I just sudden realize

Really, this pumpkin, was a bit on the smaller size

Ah.. what the heck people will always criticize

Is not like its Pan Alive night and I competing for first prize

Plus is my family, not OSA that would judge me

And in their eyes, I done win already

That’s when I decided to be wise

And settle on the Afro logo, as a comprise

Ta Da !!! The thing done, put a candle inside and turn off the light

Man ! What a wonderful sight.

I see Afropan! Ah Blazin Fire !

Yes !...That make my heart burn with desire.

Where my pan?.. Where my pan ? Gosh! I miss you Do Do

I know Baby, I know, you missing me too

It cuts like a knife but is not the wife…. is the Steering Committee

That’s breaking my heart, keeping us apart…. You and me

You know I yearn to hear you moan

As I extend my stick with the rubber tips

And caress you all over… Chromatically

Such intimate foreplay, deserves a proper site

For when I hit a high note, and you scream out at night…. Melodiously

Until then I will wait, slowly slipping into an amnesic state

Grasping to a memory of you , contemplating our fate …Very Patiently

End Scene !!!