sitting by the way side, looking like...
I am powerful woman, I started
in 1952 hanging and I'm still here today
so nothing could stop me
Calypso Rose, she is a queen
on stage she's a beautiful dynamo
she's my love, I grew up with Calypso Rose music
yeah, and she is an icon
she spread the culture around the world
now Rose is the mother of Calypso
I am glad you asked me to do this thing on Calypso Rose you asked me to sing
well the truth about it is plain to see Calypso Rose really means a lot
to we as a matter of fact I am very glad that she was born in Tobago and Trinidad
and the icon that she is today is our country that made her that way
Rose to me is one of the greatest of all time and now she's
considered like Miriam Makeba. I took the calypso queen
I won four titles
in 1978 and as I say I thank thee I bow
and I exported my music
a man is a man whether he coming with consumption
Chinese man or Indian man, any man could give you satisfaction
no, you say no? Oh my gosh, he say no
the stage is my life
it is there I am really myself
I have never been to
bed with a man since I was raped
to now, because I'm still afraid. Yes
in a way calypso has saved me because the lyrics
I have written which I could not speak I put it in song
I have always had a vision as a child
to return to the land of my ancesters
the land feed my dreams
and my vision since I was born I am seeking answers to this
vision which I need
and which brings me back to the history
of my great grandmother Marva Paul
a slave from slip from Guinea Africa
Africa. Grandma... oh...
Pain in my heart
from the very start
I always think of you, they call me the "Lioness of the Jungle".