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Trinidad & Tobago Panorama 2018 - HOME
sung by “Crazy”
composed by Edwin Ayoung
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LYRICSChorus
(I young and ah jumping up
I young and ah freeing up
I young and ah jumping
Jump and jump and jump and jump and
jump) x 2
Go crazy Go crazy Go crazy
Go crazy Go crazy Go crazy
Take ah jump with me
Jump with me - Jump with me - Jump
with me
Go crazy Go crazy Go crazy
Verse 1
Ah ready -
ah breaking the place down
Ah shaking the place down -
Ah mashing the stage down
To party - ah full ah energy –
With vibes in meh body –
It driving me crazy
Meh arthritis does bother meh now
and then
But when ah hear soca -
Ready to fete with meh friends
(This is my time now) x 4
Chorus
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Verse 2
Experience -
is my greatest teacher
I giving yuh soca - Now and in the
future
Age is ah number - I want yuh
remember
We feteing together - Dis party cyar
over
Playing meh self - Ah feeling
healthy and strong
Thank God for life - We could jump
and carry on
(This is my time now) x 4
Chorus
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Verse 3
Meh blood
pressure - I have it under control
I come out to party
To show the whole wide world
This is my time now - This is my
time now
This is my time now - This is my
time now
Chorus x 2
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Edwin “Crazy” Ayoung
Edwin Ayoung or “Crazy” - born Edwin Ayoung in 1944, on Maraval Road in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad of a Venezuelan mother and Trinidadian father of Chinese descent, was - in his youth - as skilled and competitive in his country’s national pastime of cricket, as he has been now for years as a world-travelled musician, performing artist and composer.
Though dubbed The “Loveable
Lunatic of Soca,” Ayoung
has time and again not
been given his due in
his native land, yet
remains one of the most
commercially successful
artists on the international
soca scene. An experimentalist,
he pioneered the unique
musical genre known
as Parang Soca and played
a leading role in promoting
Chutney Soca. Crazy
would go on to sing
several monster smashes
in parang soca, including
Muchacha and
Homemade Wine.
A brilliant double-entendre artiste at its best - Edwin Ayoung has delighted in pushing the envelope in his humorous and witty manner. With songs like Paul, Nani Wine and Suck Meh Soucouyant to name but three, this illustrious performer remains a staple in the music world.
He’s been ranked in the top three for Trinidad & Tobago’s annual national calypso monarch competition - his best showing being at position two with Dustbin Cover. He captured the prestigious Road March title (the ‘tune for the road’ during Carnival Monday and Tuesday) in 1985 with Suck Meh, Soucouyant.
Now add the track here, I Young (Go Crazy), to the increasing set of music works sung by “Crazy” for the 2018 steelband Panorama and carnival season; he also wrote this one. Already out for this period are Pan Break, Wind and Solar and Love of the Music.
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