Kingston Market

Words & Music:

Irving Burgie

 

Burgie penned many of Harry Belafonte's calypso hits.  He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

 

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Have you ever seen a rainbow or a garden blooming bright,

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Heard the shuffle of a thousand feet and drums from morning 'til night?

 

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Come we go down, come we go down, come we go down to Kingston market.

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Come we go down, come we go down, down to Kingston market.

 

Get your tamarind and sour sop, mangoes and casaba,

Bread fruit okra pigeon peas, curry goat and guava.

 

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Do you know a brown skin maiden with sunshine in her eyes?

Heard the swallow and the hummingbird sing happy as she goes by?

 

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Have you seen the ghost of Morgan or heard a tale you hadn't ought to?

Have you welcomed the coming dawn with a rum an' cocoanut water?

 

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