Dear Editor,
I couldn’t help but chuckle a laugh to myself, though it is a serious issue, when I read a story in your Tuesday edition (November 18) about a man being beaten by some “drink mates” because he didn’t want to stop playing a song that they did not like.
I think the article missed one very important point that should offer up some amusement, ie the name of the song that could have got his friends so angry that they would beat him because he didn’t take it off.
Immediately a few guesses came to my mind that would get a few drunken buddies mad. Now if these guys were celebrating and enjoying themselves they might not want to hear that they should drink “rum till I die,” or be reminded that “son-in-law must never live by mother-in-law,” but then if they were told to “pass the Courvoisier” when there was none, they could also be mad that someone wanted to “make love in the club” when they were really in a rum shop.
But when Guyanese are taking a ‘toops,’ the last thing they would want to be given is a lecture about life, so if this guy was telling them to “leave them young girls alone,” they may have thought that the best way to deal with him was to leave him “lost, lonely and helpless.”
I just find the story to be one that would find the humorous side of my fellow Guyanese. But seriously, we need to know the name of the song, as a precaution.
The more you live in and enjoy Guyana, the more you realize that after working from “9 to 5,” everything appears “just like in the movies.” Natural Black may have said it best.
Yours faithfully,
Gordon Moseley
I think it was, “Rum kill me mudda, rum kill me fada, rum kill me bruda, rum kill me sista,rum kill me whole family and now it wan come kill me.” Maybe it was , ” You can bring it in a bottle” and the victim was just bringing it by the drop so he got a good beating with the empty bottle. This is a serial that we are going to get laughter and lots of tears from, just wait for the next episode.
Nice twist Gordon. I too had a chuckle after reading the article & like you, I yearn to know what the song was.
Yes my friend i too would like to know the name of that song, that got one man a serious beating.
“Rum til I die”
My friend, below is the name of the song. Just dont sing it while you are in Guyana or for that matter, any place where there is a lot of drinking.
Speaking from his hospital bed yesterday, Farouk Hamid said he had been playing the popular Chutney song by the Sugar Cake Girls, “Ya Stupidy, Ya Stupidy, Ya pagalee, Ya pagalee”.
Hamid said, “dem boys [his attackers] din wan de Sugar Cake Girls’ song, dem dey wan bad boys songs but I nah like dah.” The man who had been badly battered was almost cheerful yesterday. “Well I could see through de left eye now and I feeling betta,” he said.
Rum til I die
How about ‘Maine Dharu piya’ from Bhawanie Singh or “Oh my god. O where have you gone come into this world and see what is going on’ by KomalRam.
How about the song “Big battie Shirlie.” Sung innocently without malice early one morning on a construction site,a fracas immediately after ensued. It happened that one of the masons’ wife, a very corpulent woman, was named Shirley.
LOL….absolutely no surprise!!! that song is irritating!!!