Mamaloi

(album: Toulouse Street - 1972)

Laying back and sitting in the sunshine
Hot wind, I drink me little wine
Straw hat down across my eyes
Letting the world go by
Music, it start my toes a tapping
Drum beat, it set my hands a clapping
Rum wine, it get my head a spinning
Turning around and 'round
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica

Gypsy, she say I got the fever
I don't know whether to believe her
But when the wind blow from the sea
My soul start to fly away
She give me charm that will protect me
Necklace with stone from far across the sea
But island magic much too strong
It won't let me go this time

Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica

Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica
I want no more to roam
Caribbean current, please take me
I hear you calling me home
Got to get back to Jamaica