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Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2017 - HOME
sung by Tellison “Tello” Forde & Debbie
Haynes
composed by Tellison Forde
arranged by Frankie McIntosh
click here for lead sheet
LYRICSVerse 1
Ah getting
real pan fever
Feeling of Panorama
Sound ah sweet pan again
Ah spirit in meh belly
Like meh father Pan Jumbie
Controlling me again
Time to drink up meh liquor
Wid carnival behavior
Savannah on meh mind
Jumpin’ on one foot crazy
If yuh doh know jus’ leave me
Leh me have ah good time!
Chorus 1
Pan in meh
belly, woiee!
(Is Pan-O-Rama time again
The North and Grand Stand gone
insane)
Pan in meh belly, woiee!
(Ah feeling the jam, baby, inside of
meh belly)
Pan in meh belly woiee!
(Bram, Badam, Badam. Real noise in
the stands.
They come out to jam and don’t give
ah..!)
PAN in meh belly woiee!
(Is Pan-O-Rama time again.
The North and Grand Stand gone
insane)
Verse 2
Tell Leticia
and Doni
Doh even try to track me
Messing round ‘wid meh brain
‘Cause when ah get pan fever
Spirit ah pan behavior
They’ll be tracking in vain
Time to mix up meh Brandy
Vodka wid meh Black Whisky
Babash done in meh glass!
And when dem spirits take me
Ah get on one foot jumpy
Gimmeh room, leh meh pass!
Chorus
1
_________________
Hoda
jamming!
Hoda jamming!
_________________
Verse 3
Ah hear dat
Mad Man Maddy
Done start to jam and ready
De man eh wasting time
Out in Atlantic City
Marty Rae pack and ready
She go jam dem wid wine
And den the Brooklyn posse
And London crew eh easy
French gyal go play ah mas
But ah go tell dem something
All ah dem dread just waiting
They go leh go dey rass!
Chorus 2
Pan in meh
belly, woiee!
(Is Pan-O-Rama time again
The North and Grand Stand gone
insane)
Pan in meh belly, woiee!
(Ah feeling the jam, baby, inside of
meh belly)
Pan in meh belly woiee!
(Bram, Badam, Badam. Real noise in
the stands.
They come out to jam and don’t give
ah..!)
PAN in meh belly woiee!
(Tell Jack Riley and Ellie,
Roots ah pan in meh belly
Tell dem tell all dey partner,
dat ah just like meh father!
Pan in meh belly woiee (X4)
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Tellison Forde is the son of an “Invader” - Cecil “Coye” Forde - and Beryl Isaac. He was born at 67 Rosalino Street in Woodbrook, Trinidad, adjacent to the pan yard of Invaders Steel Orchestra.
That “Tello” was the
son of an Invader
was proven when
Invaders performed
at his christening.
Father Cecil took
the Steeldrum
throughout Russia,
and was one of the
first to introduce
Pan in Spain and
Morocco in North
Africa. Young
Tellison followed in
his father’s
footsteps by
becoming a member of
Invaders Steel
Orchestra, and also
played tenor pan in
New York’s Moods Pan
Groove, Pan Rebels
and Bramblers USA.
“Tello” enlisted in the US Navy from November 1972 to December 1984, during which time he had the good fortune to serve under the late Commander W.W. Pippenger aboard the USS Brumby DE 1044 which arrived in Chaguaramas, Trinidad in November 1975.
Tellison returned to dedicated service with Sealift Command Department of the Navy for 13 years, always keeping his tenor pan at hand.
He is well known within the steelband community for compositions such as I Is On Rock of Laventi, Prophet of Pan and Coye: Pan Religion, among others.
For the 2017 steelband Panorama season “Tello” has already released National Panthem. Now, for Pan In Meh Belly featured here, he is joined by vocalist Debbie Haynes.
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