List of calypso songs about cricket

This is a list of calypso songs whose lyrics and themes are about cricket.

Brian Lara

Cricket was introduced in the West Indies during the British Empire era and is now played all over that region. Calypso, an integral part of Trinidad and Tobago culture, chronicles and comments on many aspects of life locally and sometimes internationally. Cricket themed calypsos have brought together and annotated the triumphs and tribulations of West Indies cricket since the 1920’s.[1]

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

  • "Ah Put on My Guns Again" (1976), Chalkdust[20][12][21][1] - Contains a verse referring to cricket
  • "Andy Roberts" - "Tribute to Andy Roberts" (1973), Calypso Franco[1]
  • "Bomb (The)" (1974), [1] - News event
  • "Bowl Dem Fruity" (1978), Mighty Swallow[1]
  • "Boyhood Days" (1975), Tradewinds[1] - Some references to cricket
  • "Clive Lloyd" - "Tribute to Clive Lloyd" (1976), Singing Francine[1]
  • "Combine Islands" (1975), Mighty Swallow[1]
  • "Cricket Commentary" (1978), Crazy[1]
  • "Cricket Game (The)" (1976), The Sparks[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Cricket Series" - "Female Cricket Series" (1972), Mighty Bomber[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Cricket Victory ‘76" (1976), Frank Holder[1]
  • "Garry Sobers" (1971), The Merrymen[1]
  • "Gavascar" - "Indian Cricketers" (1972), Lord Relator[22][23][1]
  • "Election Cricket Game" (1976), Mighty Swallow[1] - Political commentary
  • "Kerry Packer (Ah Say Ban Dem)" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[2][15][24][1]
  • "Kerry Packer (I Met Sir Frank)" (1978), All Rounders[15][1]
  • "Knock Them Down" (1977), Maestro[25][15][24]
  • "Learie Constantine" (1971), Lord Pretender[1]
  • "Lord Constantine" (1972), Lord Blakie[1]
  • "One Day Cricket" (1977), All Rounder[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Tribute to Constantine" (1972), Tangler[1]
  • "Vivi Richards" - "Tribute to Vivi Richards" (1975), Mighty Swallow[1]
  • "Vivian Richards" (1976), King Short Shirt[1]
  • "Water Lillee" (1976), Lord Kitchener[1]
  • "West Indian Alphabet" (1974), Tradewinds[1] - Reference to cricket
  • "West Indians Are Back in Town" (1976), West Indies Touring Team[1]
  • "West Indies vs India" (1972), Sagar Sookraj[1]
  • "Where Are your Heroes" (1973), Tradewinds[1] - Includes references to cricket heroes
  • "Willett" (1974), Mighty Swallow[1]
  • "World Cup (Cypher Was Oversea)" (1976), Mighty Cypher[1]
  • "World Cup (Phase One)" (1976), Maestro[1]
  • "World Cup Champions" (1976), Regeneration Now[1]

1980s

  • "Blackwash" (1985), Roots Man[15][1]
  • "Blood Money" (1986), Commenter[15][1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Calypso Cricket" (1988), Chalkdust[1] - Commentary on the evolution of calypso
  • "Clive Lloyd" (1985), Lord Have Mercy[1]
  • "Combine" (1981), Becket[16][1]
  • "Cricket in the Sun" (1985), Tradewinds[1]
  • "Cricket Soca Fever" (1983), Val Mason[1]
  • "Cricket Song (The) - Come, Go See the West Indies" (1980), Clayton Davis[1]
  • "Crickitics" (1987), Luta[1]
  • "Hit It" (1981), Mighty Gabby[1] -Humour/Pun
  • "Honorary White" (1983), Mighty Swallow[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Rally 'Round the West Indies" (1988), David Rudder[26][8][15][27][24][1]
  • "Reason (The)" (1983), Short Pants[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Richie Richardson" (1989), King Progress[1]
  • "Screws" (1989), Becket[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "South Africa" (1983), Tobago Crusoe[15][8][1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Stranger Man" (1985), Becket[1] - Includes a reference to cricket in one verse
  • "We are the Champions" (1985), Tradewinds[1]
  • "We Love Cricket but we Hate Apartheid" (1985), Brother Mudada[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid

1990s

  • "100 for 6" (1997), Melanie Hudson[1] - News event
  • "Ah Ready" (1996), Lord Contender[1]
  • "Ban for Life" (1990), King Progress[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Bankie’s Son" (1999), David Rudder[1]
  • "Bat On" (1997), Brother Marvin[1]
  • "Bat on Lara" (1999), De Alberto[1]
  • "Beyond the Boundary" (1992), MBA[15][27][1] - Commentary on cricket during apartheid
  • "Big up the West Indies" (1997), Dread and the Baldhead[1]
  • "Brian Lara" (1995), Watchman
  • "Caribbean Party" (1993), David Rudder[1]
  • "Celebrate" - "Celebration" (1995), Denyse Plummer[1]
  • "Chanderpaul" (1998), Terry Gajraj[1]
  • "Clean Sweep" (1990), Becket[1][16]
  • "Coconut Cricket" (1999), Abbi Blackman[1]
  • "Courtney" (1999), Black Stalin[1]
  • "Cover yuh Head" (1991), Speedy[1] - Includes reference to cricket, about birth control
  • "Curtly Ambrose" (1993), Calypso Douglas[1]
  • "Curtly Ambrose" (1995), Lord Relator[1]
  • "Don’t Bowl meh too Hard" (1998), Karla Gonzales[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Four Lara Four" - "Laramania" (1995), Defosto[8][1]
  • "Gie Dem Shiv" (1997), Tradewinds[1]
  • "Gravy" (1990), King Progress[1]
  • "Hands Up" (1999), Tonic Band[1]
  • "Here Come the West Indies" (1994), David Rudder[15][27][1]
  • "Is Only Sport" (1995), Kurt Allen[1]
  • "King Lara" (1994), Count Robin[1]
  • "Knock Dem Down" (1992), David Rudder[1]
  • "Lara" (1994), DeLamo[1]
  • "Lara Prince of Plunder" (1995), Watchman[1]
  • "Lara Promenade" (1995), Magruff[1]
  • "Laramania" (A Pretty Pretty Senorita …) (1994), All Rounder[1]
  • "Laramania" (The whole Caribbean Went Wild …) (1994), Becket[1]
  • "Lash Dem Lara" (1994), Alexander D. Great[1]
  • "Legacy" (1995), David Rudder[15][1]
  • "Like Lara" (1995), Richard MacIntosh[1]
  • "My Hero" (1995), Hollis Wright[1]
  • "Ninja Caught Behind" (1993), Flyin Turkey[1]
  • "One Gone Again" (1993), All Rounder[1]
  • "Pace in yuh Waist" (1994), Tony Wilson[1]
  • "Prodigal" (1996) - DeLamo[1] - Commentary on emigration
  • "Rebels" (1992), Mighty Gabby[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Reunite our Cricket Team" (1992), King Short Shirt[1]
  • "Scamps Like These" (1998), Heather MacIntosh[1] - Commentary on West Indian cricketers playing in South Africa during apartheid
  • "Signal to Lara" (1995), Superblue[8][28][1]
  • "Support the West Indies" (1997), Alexander D Great[1]
  • "Up and Away Lara" (1995), Delamo & Gypsy(Extempo)[1]
  • "We Coming Back" (1996), Bally[1]
  • "We Coming Back" (1999), Becket[1][16]
  • "West Indian Cricket" (1999), De Mighty Trini[1]
  • "West Indies I Feel the Pain" (1998), Alicia Pamponette[1]
  • "West Indies Warriors" (1996), Kurt Allen[1]

2000s

  • "20th Century" (2000), Andre Williams[1] - Contains some references to cricket
  • "Answer de Call" (2001), Sanell Dempster & Sean Paul[1]
  • "Are you There" (2001), Alison Hinds[1]
  • "Bigger Better Cricket" (2005), Alison Hinds[1]
  • "Brian Lara" (2008), Fashion Police[1]
  • "Champions" (2007), David Rudder[1]
  • "Charles Brian" (2006), D Dozie[1]
  • "Come Rise with me" (2007), Machel Montano & Claudette Peters[1]
  • "Cricket" - "It’s Over" (2007), David Rudder[1]
  • "Cricket is we Ting" (2007), Becket[16][1]
  • "Cricket Lovely Cricket in Guyana" (2007), Terry Gajraj[1]
  • "De Call" (2006), Calypso Kerr[1]
  • "Everybody Love Courtney" (2000), Becket[16][1]
  • "Game of Love and Unity" (2007), Shaggy[1]
  • "Get in de Game" (2004), Machel Montano[1]
  • "He Strikes Again" - "Lara" (2005), De Fosto[1]
  • "Hold on to Cricket" (2005), Dice[1]
  • "Hooper and Chanderpaul" (2001), Tradewinds[1]
  • "ICC Champs" (2004), Relator[1]
  • "It’s a West Indian Thing" - "Bounce" (2006), David Rudder[1]
  • "Lara Again" (2004), Becket[16][1]
  • "Lara Touch" (2007), Tobago Chalkie[1]
  • "Legacy (The)" - "Lara" (2006), Tallish[1]
  • "Lifted" (2007), David Rudder[1]
  • "Live the Passion" (2003), Rupee[1]
  • "Lovely Day" (2007), David Rudder[1]
  • "Malcolm Marshall" (2000), Mighty Gabby[1]
  • "Play Ball" (2006), Mighty Lingo[1]
  • "Prince of Port of Spain (The)" (2007), Rootsman[1]
  • "Sir Gary" (2002), Mighty Gabby[1]
  • "Smiling Eyes of Steel" (2000), David Rudder[29][1]
  • "Song for Lara" (2005), Kia Panman[1]
  • "Stroke it" (2001), Red Plastic Bag[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Tanty Merle" (2007), Abbi Blackman[1]
  • "Two Great Bowlers" (2003), Sugar Aloes[1]
  • "Understanding is the Problem" (2009), Alpha[1]
  • "We are Back" (2005), Heather MacIntosh[1]
  • "Welcome" (2007), Becket[1][16]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2004), Rootsman[1]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2007), Becket[1][16]
  • "West Indies Forever" (2007), Gino McKoy[1]
  • "West Indies Now and Forever" (2004), Alison Hinds[1]
  • "West Indies Posse" (2004), King Punkwa[1]
  • "WICB Take a Rest" (2008), Tradewinds[1]
  • "World Cup Cricket" (2007), Anderson ‘Blood’ Armstrong[1]

2010s

  • "Ah Feel for Gayle" (2016), Cro Cro[1]
  • "Bowl mih" (2011), Sanell Dempster & Buffy[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "Champion" (2016), DJ Bravo[1][6]
  • "Chanderpaul" (2010), De Alberto[1]
  • "Chanderpaul" (2013), B. Deokarran[1]
  • "Cricketer (The)" (2016), Snakey[1] - Humour/Pun
  • "D Oval" (2011), D Dozie[1]
  • "Do Blush Baby" (2016), Happy[1] - News event
  • "How we Play" (2013), Kes (band)[1]
  • "Lash dem Learie" (2010), Alexander D Great[1]
  • "Make me Believe Again" (2016), Kendal John[1]
  • "We Are the West Indies" (2011), Tian Winter[1]
  • "West Indies Cricket" (2012), Alison Hinds[1]

2020s to present

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Sources

Books

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  • Attaway, William (2011). Calypso Song Book: Authentic Folk Music Of The Caribbean. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1258122133.
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Journals

Articles

Audio

  • Calypso Breakaway (Record). Rounder Records Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1990.
  • Calypso Dreams (CD). In for a penny, in for a pound, LLC. Ice Music, Ltd. 2009.
  • Calypso - Musical poetry in the Caribbean (1955 - 69) (CD). Soul Jazz records. 2014.
  • Calypsos from Trinidad - Politics, intrigue & violence in the 1930s (CD). Arhoolie Prod., Inc. 1991.
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