Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard

歌詞

Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime Always happen at the Christmas time Hideous discoveries and monstrous crime Always happen at the Christmas time For the old year murders and the tragedy For the New Year serious calamity What shocked Trinidad Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard What marred the Christmas festivity Was a New Year double catastrophe When a man and a woman on the ground was found With bloodstains upon the ground The husband was arrested but they were too late For the poison he drunk sent him to the gate That shocked Trinidad Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard In Saint James the population went wild When in the savannah they found a child The hair was auburn and complexion pink Which placed the watchman in a mood to think "How can a mother despise and scorn A little angel that she has born?" That was more sad Than the seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard A lorry was speeding to Port of Spain When it knocked down the cyclist into the drain It was going as fast as the lightning flash When the cyclist received the lash The mother cried out in sorrows and pain I am not going to see my boy-child again That is more sad Than the seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard While the workmen they were digging the ground They ( ? ) all human beings they found Feet together and head east and west Number five was a watchman among the rest Number six had the hands and the feet on the chest And number seven (something "serious guest"?) That shocked Trinidad Those seven skeletons that the workmen found in that yard