Let we take back we
St. Martin Day
For on November 1959
When Dr. Hubert Petit
And Dr. Claude Wathey
Chose the 11 of November
Te was fo we te remember
That whether we are Dutch
Or whether we be French
We all are St. Martiners
As Lino would say
One island
One people
One Destiny
So we come together
Te have a good time
From frontière
Te frontier
And we was enjoying it
And having ah joyfull time
Until the Massahs
Put their noozes
Into we affair
We used to fête in French
Quarter ball field
As long as we feel
We would fete from
The eleventh of November
’Til Christmas in December
And nobody tell we nothing
Cauz we was doing we
Own thing
And we fête kyan done
We started te fête
From the la Toussaint
Thru St. Martin saint
Thanksgiving day
Christmas day
Boxing day
Old year’s nite we
Churching
But come New Year
We fêting still
Now all that done
We kyan have no fun
Cauz there is too much
Violence and too much guns
So no more fête fo we
Cauz Massah put
We back on the plantation
Under ah the Tamarin Tree
And there we will remain
If we don’t get up
Stand up
And take back ah we fête
Raymond Helligar aka “Big Ray”
