List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences

The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon.

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## American presence in Trinidad and Tobago

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* "Base (The)" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[1][2]
* "Brown Skin Gal" - "Brown Skin Girl" (1933), King Radio[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
* "Chaguaramas Issue (The)" (1959), Mighty Cypher[10][11]
* "Dock Site Baby" (1945), Lord Invader[12]
* "Gimme Back Me Dam Kimona" (1951), Mighty Growler[4][8]
* "Green Fig" - "Mary, I am Tired and Disgusted" (1942), Lord Kitchener[13][14][15]
* "No Nationality" (1946), Atilla the Hun[16][2][8]
* "Pam Palaam" - "Soldiers and the Mopsies of Pam Palam (The)" (1944), Roaring Lion[8][14]
* "Roosevelt in Trinidad" - "FDR in Trinidad" (1936), Atilla the Hun[6][13][10][17][12]
* "Rum and Coca-Cola" (1944), Lord Invader[3][5][6][7][18][19][20][16][10][15][21][8][9][22][11][12]
* "Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life (The)" (1945), Lord Invader[23][4][24][12]
* "What You Doing in My Gallery" (1945), Growling Tiger[4][25]
* "We Want Back Chagaramas" (1959), Nap Hepburn[16][14]
* "Yankee Dollar" (1946), Lord Invader[3][4][24]
* "Yankee Harvest Is Over" (1945), Lord Beginner[6]
* "Yankee’s Back" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[1][23]
* "Yankees Gone" - "Jean and Dinah" (1956), Mighty Sparrow[3][4][5][18][26][7][1][27][20][16][10][15][21][28][29][30][22][11]
* "You Can't Tell the Old from the Young" (1955), Lord Beginner[8][23]

## Aspirations / Dreams

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* "Buy Me a Zeppelin" (1945), Macbeth the Great[23]
* "I Am Going to Buy a Bungalow" (1938), Roaring Lion[6][12]
* "I Don’t Want No Bungalow" (1938), Atilla the Hun[6][25]
* "I Want a Radio at Home" (1938), Black Prince[23]
* "I Want To Build a Bungalow" (1938), Codallo's Top Hatters[23][31]
* "I Want to Rent a Bungalow" (1938), Mighty Growler[23][6]
* "If I Won a Sweepstake" (1941) - Atilla the Hun[5][25]

## Christmas period

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* "Bring de Scotch for Christmas" (1966), Lord Kitchener
* "Christmas Coming" (1977), Chalkdust[31]
* "Christmas Greetings" (1966), Lord Kitchener[31]
* "Christmas Is a Joyful Day" (1937), Lord Executor[23][31]
* "Christmas Is Yours, Christmas is mine" (1981), Lord Relator
* "Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning" (1939), Lord Beginner[23][31]
* "Christmas Nice" (1999), Mighty Shadow
* "Christmas Time is Near" (1961), Lord Creator[31]
* "Father Christmas" (1966), Lord Kitchener
* "Father Christmas" (1959), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "It’s Christmas" (2009), Baron[14]
* "It’s Christmas again" (2010), Baron[14]
* "Jingle Bells Calypso" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Merry Christmas to You" (1961), Lord Creator[31]
* "Neighbour Oye" (2018), Baron
* "Oh What a Christmas" (2018), Crazy
* "Paint Brush (De)" (1993), Kenny J.
* "Paramin" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "Parang Soca" (1979), Crazy[5]
* "Party for Santa Claus (A)" (1973), Lord Nelson[31]
* "Santa" - "Miss Santa" (1961), King Solomon[7]
* "Sip and Chat" (1981), Lord Relator[29]
* "Something Salt" (1977), Chalkdust[31]

## Corruption / Criminality

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The Mighty Shadow

* "Ah Digging Horrors" (1975), Mighty Sparrow[1][32]
* "Ah Doh Rhyme" (2005), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "Ah Feeling Shame" (2009), Cro Cro[33]
* "Ah Not in Dat" (2009), Chalkdust[14]
* "Angry Land" (2017), Gypsy
* "Apocalypse" (1981), Delamo[10][2][32]
* "Apology (The)" - "No Apology" (1995), Cro Cro[13]
* "Baboo Lala" (1938), Roaring Lion[23][14][34]
* "Bad Impression (A)" 1965, Lord Kitchener[2]
* "Ballad of Gorrie" (1934), Lord Executor[8]
* "Bandit Factory (The)" (2006), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "Bernard" (1974), Chalkdust[14]
* "Black Man Killing Black Man" (1993), Black Stalin
* "Cat O’Nine Tails" - "Old Time Cat-O-Nine" -"Bring Back the Cat O'Nine Tails" (1945), Lord Invader[8][23][35][12]
* "Caught in the Whirlwind" (2017), Karene Asche[14]
* "Cleansing Fire" (2017), Singing Sandra
* "Cock O’Halloran" (1967), Mighty Clipper[2]
* "Collateral Damage" (2004), Kizzie Ruiz[33]
* "Corporal Holder" (1904), Lord Inventor[8][4]
* "Corporal Holder" (1904), Pharaoh[8]
* "Corporal Punishment" (1947), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Corruption in Common Entrance" (1988), Cro Cro[20][13][22]
* "Dis Place Is Nice" - "Trinidad is Nice" (1975), Brother Valentino[1][2][36][32]
* "Dole Chadee Say" (2000), Cro Cro[33]
* "Equal Justice" (2006), Singing Sandra[14][33]
* "Essence of Love (The)" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Every Shadow" (1985), Scrunter
* "Face Reality" (2004), Cro Cro[10]
* "Family Size Coke" (1950), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (2003), Singing Sandra[33]
* "Good Citizen" (1971), Mighty Sparrow[1][32][28]
* "Ground Zero" (2002), Singing Sandra[14][33]
* "Harold Change your Mind" (1940), Mighty Growler[12]
* "Head in the Flower Pot" (1965), Lord Brynner[31]
* "Hell’s Yard and George Street Conflict" (1936), Growling Tiger[5]
* "High Cost of Living" (1957), Mighty Sparrow[26][13]
* "Hills Thrills (The)" (2015), Shirlane Hendrickson[33]
* "Honesty" (1966), Mighty Sparrow[27][10]
* "How to Stop Delinquency" - "How to Curb Delinquency" (1966), Mighty Leveller[37][2][31][32]
* "Hunt is On (The)" (2012), Duane O’Connor[33]
* "In the Dew and Rain" (1939), Mighty Growler[12]
* "Jail Dem" (2002), Cro Cro[33]
* "Jail Them" (2002), Bally[33]
* "Jericho" (1978), Lord Kitchener[5]
* "Justice" (2020), Kurt Allen[33]
* "Kamla the Greatest" (2011), Crazy[33]
* "Law Is an Ass (The)" (1979), Short Pants[27][19][1]
* "Licensed Forearm" (1994), Luta[13]
* "Lip Service" (2017), Rondell Donawa[33]
* "Look How Trinbago Gone" (2013), All Rounder
* "Madman’s Rant" (1996), David Rudder[2]
* "Mano Benjamin" (1964), Mighty Composer[31]
* "Mirror Mirror" (2005), Skatie[33]
* "Money" (1980), Black Stalin[32]
* "Money Eh No Problem" (1978), Lord Shorty[5][1][2][32]
* "Money is King" (1935), Growling Tiger[4][5][7][37][16][38][8][35][12]
* "Murder Frenzy" (2020), Chalkdust[33]
* "Nature’s Plan" (1984), Johnny King[7][13][39][32]
* "No Bacchanal" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[2]
* "Not de Land" (2013), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "Nothing Ain’t Strange" (1975), Black Stalin[2][32][10]
* "One Day Without a Murder" (2020), Singing Sandra
* "One to Hang" (1973), Lord Kitchener[40]
* "Panama" (1988), David Rudder[10][28]
* "Peace Seeker" (2015), Sean Daniel[33]
* "Peddlers" (1958), Lord Melody[20]
* "Pirates of Paria" - "Pirates in the Gulf of Paria" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Police Doing it Too" (1963), Young Killer[31]
* "Police Get More Pay" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[18][1]
* "Policeman" (1936), Young Pretender[8][31]
* "Race Track Scandal" (1955), Mighty Sparrow[26]
* "Run the Gunslingers" (1959), Lord Caruso[7][41][30]
* "Sam P" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[10]
* "Savage" (1987), Carl & Carol Jacobs
* "Scape Fox (The)" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard" (1938), Lord Executor[23][42][43]
* "Shortcut Society" (2001), Chalkdust[14]
* "Sly Mongoose" (1925), Lionel Belasco[1][8][35][9][44][6][12]
* "Sodom & Gomorrah" (1982), Delamo[2]
* "Stanley Abbott" (1974), Lord Kitchener[40]
* "Staying Alive" (1987), Black Stalin
* "Take the Number" (1979), Scrunter[45][1][46]
* "Take Over" (2019), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Tell the Authorities" (2007), Twiggy[33]
* "Ten Feet Ah Rope" (2003), Heather McIntosh[33]
* "Ten to One Is Murder" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[7][1][4][28]
* "Thelma Haynes Story" (1957), Lord Melody
* "Treasury Scandal" (1937), Atilla the Hun[6][13][38][17][8]
* "Twenty Years n' Twenty Strokes" (1989), Chalkdust[14]
* "Unsolved Murders" (1965), Mighty Bomber[31][2]
* "We Living in Jail" (1984), Penguin[13]
* "Western Rodeo" (2002), Gypsy[33]
* "Who Is in Charge" (1995), Sugar Aloes[13]
* "Who to Call" (2019), Brian London[33]
* "Witness" (2001), Brother Resistance[33]
* "Year of the Child (Shakuntala)" (1979), Cardinal
* "Year for Love" (2018), Voice[33]

## Culture - Calypso / Carnival evolution

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* "A Calypsonian" (2010), Brian London[33]
* "Ah Put on My Guns Again" (1976), Chalkdust[1][47][32][48]
* "Ancient Rhythm" (2003), Singing Sandra[14][33]
* "Bahia Girl" (1986), David Rudder[28][49][30]
* "Banning of Records (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun[27][6][37][1][16][34][10][17]
* "Bomber’s Dream" (1964), Mighty Bomber[1]
* "Brass Crown" (1957), Lord Superior[16][35]
* "Calypso Cricket" (1988), Chalkdust
* "Calypso Music" (1987), David Rudder[50][10]
* "Calypso Rising" (1992), David Rudder[13][51]
* "Calypso War" (1958), Mighty Terror[23][35]
* "Can’t Buy Extempo" - "Yuh Cyar Buy One" (2009), Contender[33]
* "Caribbean Spirit" (1988), Gypsy
* "Carnival Boycott" (1957), Mighty Sparrow[1][16][28][35]
* "Carnival Road March" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Carnival Is the Answer" (1989), Chalkdust[14][13][2]
* "Category My Donkey" (2004), Devon Seale[33]
* "Censoring of Calypso Makes Us Glad (The)" (1938), Lord Executor[6][17]
* "Chalkie the Mailman" (2006), Chalkdust[50]
* "Chalkie the Teacher" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Champions" (2018), Turner
* "Chutney Soca" - "Chatnee Soca" (1987), Drupatee[52][13]
* "Cooperation" (1966), Calypso Rose[52][53]
* "Cultural Controversy" - "Carnival Controversy" (1987), Singing Francine
* "Culture" (1988), Tambu[13]
* "D’Blueprint" (2012), Mistah Shak[33]
* "Dat Eh Good Enough" (2011), Ras Shorty I[49]
* "Dat Soca Boat" (1979), Mighty Shadow[14]
* "Dem Judges" (2006), Brother Mutada[33]
* "Don’t Destroy Calypso Music" (1995), The Mighty Duke[13]
* "Don’t Stop the Carnival" - "Doh Stop the Carnival" (1939) - Lord Invader[54][10]
* "Ducking" (2015), Fadda Fox[20]
* "Everliving Calypso" (2007), Brother Mudada[33]
* "Excursion to Grenada" (1938), Roaring Lion[5][6][12]
* "Five Rules of Calypso (The)" (2001), Brother Valentino[36]
* "Flag Woman" (1976), Lord Kitchener[7][1][30]
* "Guests of Rudy Vallee" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion[23][13]
* "Her Majesty" (1978), Calypso Rose[1][47][28]
* "High Mass" (1998), David Rudder[7][33][51]
* "History of Carnival" (1935), Atilla the Hun[5][6][1][8][17][12]
* "How’s Dat" (2012), Chalkdust[14]
* "How to Sing Calypso" (1982), Chalkdust[14]
* "How to Win the Crown" (2019), Chalkdust[1]
* "If the Priest Could Play" (1967), Mighty Cypher[7][47]
* "Iron Band (The)" (1945), Atilla the Hun[14]
* "J’Ouvert Barrio" (1935), Roaring Lion[55][23]
* "Jam (De)" (1980), Black Stalin[2][32]
* "Juba Doo Bai" - "Juba Dubai" (1977), Chalkdust[7][1]
* "Jump and Wave" (1995), Cro Cro[13][35]
* "Kaiso Gone Dread" (1991), Black Stalin[5]
* "Kaiso Kaiso" (2006) - Luta[33]
* "Kaiso Music" (1996), Black Stalin[2]
* "Kaiso Power" (1986), Chalkdust
* "Kaiso Sick in the Hospital" (1993), Chalkdust[14][13]
* "Land of Calypso" - "Trinidad, the Land of Calypso" (1950), Roaring Lion[27][35][29]
* "Last Jour Ouvert" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Last Year’s Happiness" (1966), Mighty Terror[1][47][9]
* "Long Live Calypso" (1973), Lord Superior[13][33]
* "Love Yuh Own" (1991), Ella Andall[52]
* "Man Want to Dance" (1986), Chalkdust[27]
* "Mas" (1965), Lord Melody[47][10]
* "Mecca (The)" (1987), Brother Mudada[7]
* "Meet Superblue" (2009), Fay-Ann Lyons[33][30]
* "Message to George Weeks" (1976), Chalkdust[50]
* "Misconceptions" (1993), Chalkdust[37][13]
* "Mr. Bissessar" (1988), Drupatee[13]
* "My Purpose" (2019), Brian London[33]
* "No Entry" (2020), Maria Bhola[33]
* "No Part Time Lover" (1986), Black Stalin[13]
* "Nobody Cares" - "They Don't Care About We" (2001), Black Stalin
* "No Smut for Me" (1976), Chalkdust[1]
* "Old Time Calypso" (1998), Lord Kitchener
* "One for the Savannah" (1992), Chalkdust[14]
* "One More Officer" (1989), David Rudder[35]
* "One Song" (2007), Devon Seale[33]
* "Our Cultural Heritage" (1972), Chalkdust[31]
* "Outcast (The)" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[3][7][1][19][10][35]
* "Pack up Your Things and Go" - " Pack Yuh Bags" (1998), Luta[27][10]
* "Piranha" (2012), Tiny[33]
* "Play Me" (1977), Maestro[1]
* "Play My Music" (1978), Brother Mudada
* "PM’s Sex Probe" (1974), Lord Shorty[10]
* "Politicians Love Calypsonians" - "Politicians Love Calypso" (1999), Manchild[10]
* "Poor, Pious and Proud" (2014), Cro Cro[33]
* "Questionable Canon" (1948), Atilla the Hun[16]
* "Rainorama" (1973), Lord Kitchener[7][45][20][28][30]
* "Rate Rate Ray" - "Ra Tiray Tiray" (1941), Lord Invader[5][6]
* "Real Bandits" (2016), Helon Francis[33]
* "Reply to the Ministry" (1969), Chalkdust[27][50][1]
* "Respect the Calypsonian" (1988), Gypsy[27][37]
* "Respect the Thing" - "Respect the Ting" (1982), Chalkdust[14]
* "Rhythm of a People" (1997), Gypsy[13]
* "Road (The)" (1963), Lord Kitchener[7][30]
* "Scrunting Calypsonian" (1978), Trinidad Rio[7]
* "Seeking Sparrow's advice" (2013), Duane O’Connor[13][33]
* "Shame Mr. Shak" (2012), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "She Want Me To Sing in She Party" - "Sing in She Party" (1987), Scrunter[13]
* "Sixty-Seven" (1967), Lord Kitchener[1][30]
* "Soca Warriors" - "Soca Warrior too" (2007), Chalkdust[14]
* "Sparrow Come Back Home" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[23][47][28]
* "Spirit of Carnival" (2016), Devon Seale[33]
* "St. Joan of Arts" (2008), Chalkdust
* "Stage Gone Bad" (2020), Kes (band) & Iwer George[33][30]
* "Sumintra" (1988), Rikki Jai[13]
* "Telephone Call" (1974), Chalkdust[31]
* "Tempo" - "Gimme More Tempo" (1977), Calypso Rose[1][13][30]
* "Tension" (1988), Mighty Shadow
* "Tent Is it (The)" (2001), Chalkdust[50]
* "They Couldn't Stop the Masquerade" (1936), Growling Tiger[6]
* "They Don’t Like the Government" (2000), Crazy[33]
* "They Don’t Make Them Like Me Anymore" (1991), Lord Pretender
* "They Put Me So" (2019) - Chalkdust[50][33]
* "Too Much Quacks" (1986), Chalkdust[14][13]
* "Too Much Tempo" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Too Young to Soca" (1986), Machel Montano[13][33][28]
* "Trinidad Carnival" (1974), Lord Superior[36]
* "Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival" (1939), Mighty Growler[23][43][12]
* "True Calypsonian" - "True True Kaisonian" - "True True Calypsonian" (1966), Lord Pretender[27][13]
* "Two Chords & Leston Paul" (1988), Chalkdust[19]
* "Ubiquitous and Kaiso" (1944), Atilla the Hun[34][5][8]
* "Uncle Sam Own We" (1978), Chalkdust[14][32]
* "Vagabond" (2015), Ricardo Drue[20]
* "Vincentian Calypso King" (1963), Lord Blakie[31][35]
* "You Can’t Judge Culture" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Yuh Mad or Wha" (2006), Bunji Garlin
* "Warrior" (1977), Calypso Rose[14]
* "Wedding of the Century" (2014), Chucky[33]
* "What Is an Obscene Calypso?" (1944), Lord Pretender[6]
* "What Is Calypso" (1968) - The Mighty Duke[50][7][19][42][36][34]
* "What’s Wrong With Me" (2000), Mighty Shadow[33]
* "What the Hell You Want" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Where Kaiso Went" (2004), Brother Valentino[33]
* "Who Next" (1972), Chalkdust[31][10]
* "Why I Sing" (2012), Singing Sandra[14]
* "Why Milo" (1975), Chalkdust[14]
* "Why We Attack" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "Wild Indian" (1945), The Duke of Iron[23]

## Culture - Calypso War / Extempo / Picong

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Lord Invader, The Growler, Atilla the Hun and Roaring Lion (1943) - Calypso22

* "Alexander the Murderer" (1960), Lord Melody[5][1]
* "Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night" (1931), Wilmoth Houdini[5]
* "Asteroid" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion[5][34][8]
* "Bad Johns" (2001), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Belmont Jackass" (1960), Lord Melody[13][23]
* "Bull Pistle Gang" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[2]
* "Calypso Invasion" (1945), The Duke of Iron[23]
* "Calypso War" (1946), Lord Invader, Macbeth the Great, The Duke of Iron[14]
* "Corbeau Flying High" (1958), Lord Melody[23][10]
* "Cowboy Melo" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[4]
* "Cowboy Sparrow" (1959), Lord Melody[13][23]
* "Don’t Touch Me" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[5][1]
* "Executor Doomed to Die" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini[6][13]
* "Executor the homeless man" (1937), Wilmoth Houdini[6][23]
* "Fire and Brimstone" (1936), Wilmoth Houdini[6][23]
* "Fowl Thief Melo" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "Hangman’s Cemetery" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[5][1]
* "Horse Race" - "Sparrow Melody Horse Race" (1962), Lord Melody[23]
* "In the Morning" (1939), Mighty Growler[5][12]
* "Loretto" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Madame Dracula" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "Mamaguille" - "Mamaguy" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion[23][17][8]
* "Malnutrition Songsters" (1937), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "March" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Marjorie" (1960), Lord Melody[23]
* "Melody Lie" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "More the Merrier (The)" (1993), Mighty Sparrow[13]
* "My Reply to Houdini" (1937), Lord Executor[4][6][8]
* "No Royal Jail" (1961), Lord Inventor[23]
* "On His Blindness" (1952), Lord Executor[23][4]
* "Picong Duel" (1957), Mighty Sparrow & Lord Melody[23]
* "Renegades" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1][4]
* "Reply to Melody" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[13][23][10]
* "Rope" (1972), Mighty Sparrow[1][47]
* "Royal Goal" - "Royal Jail" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[5][1][28][30]
* "Soca Pressure" (1985), Mighty Sparrow[13][28]
* "Song No. 99" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[23]
* "Sparrow’s Nose" - "St. Lucian Women" (1960), Lord Melody[23]
* "Sparrow’s Sister" (1959), Lord Melody[23]
* "Sugar for Pan" (1986), Mighty Terror[14]
* "Texilia" (1936), King Radio & Growling Tiger[6]
* "They Say I Reign Too Long" (1938), Lord Executor[23][48]
* "Three Calypsonians" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "Trouble in Arima" (1954), Lord Kitchener[4][5][7]
* "Turn Back Melo" - "Turn back Melody" (1960), Lord Melody[5][1]
* "Ugliness" (1961), Mighty Dougla[23]
* "What They Get, They Will Take" (1963), Lord Blakie[31]
* "War" (1937), Atilla the Hun & Lord Caresser & Roaring Lion & Lord Executor[6][1][8][17]
* "War" (1979), Crazy[4]
* "War Declaration" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[4][6][17]
* "Yuh Cyar Buy Extempo" (2009), Contender

## Culture Icons (Calypso / Carnival / Pan)

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* "Ah Miss de Bards" (2014), Chalkdust[14]
* "Ah Thief it from Kitch" (1974), Chalkdust[31]
* "Atilla’s Pen" (2011), Kurt Allen[13][33]
* "Before You Gone" - "Before you gone Birdie" (2016), Macomere Fifi
* "Black Stalin Say" (2013), Kurt Allen[13][33]
* "For Kitchener's Sake" (2000), Chalkdust[14][13]
* "Formula" (2019), Pharaoh[33]
* "Godfather (The)" (2001), Mighty Bomber[33]
* "Hammer (The)" (1986), David Rudder[14][16][28][29]
* "Heroes" (2001), Denyse Plummer[13][33]
* "Is Wot" (2022), David Rudder
* "Kaiso Kaiso" (2006), Luta[13]
* "Kitchener Say" (2001), Defosto
* "One for Bertie" (2013), Helon Francis[33]
* "One More Kitchener" (2000), Defosto[33]
* "Pretender's Reminder" (2015), Mistah Shak[27][33]
* "Sartorial Elegance" (2007), Duane O'Connor[33]
* "Spree Simon" - "Tribute to Spree Simon" (1975), Lord Kitchener[1][47][30]
* "Tribute to Kitchener" (2000), Lord Relator[13][33][36]
* "Tribute to Singing Sandra" (2021), Ajamu
* "Tribute to Sundar Popo" (1995), Black Stalin[14][13]
* "Tribute to Winsford Devine" (2010), Crazy[33]
* "Trinity is My Name" (1994), Delamo[13]
* "Will (The)" (1982), Scrunter[7][13]
* "Wot Time it is" (2022), Aaron Duncan

## Culture - Kalenda / Stick fighting

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* "Archie Boulay" (1938), Atilla the Hun[14][31][55][17][12]
* "Bayonet Charge by the Laws of the Iron Duke" (1914), The Duke of Iron[12][6]
* "Bois" (2014), Mistah Shak[33]
* "Carnival Celebration" (1956), Small Island Pride[5][35]
* "Clear the Way When the Bamboo Play" (1938), Lord Caresser[16][23][35]
* "Congo Bara (Prisonier levez)" - "Kongo Bara (Pwizonnyé Lévé)" - "Congo Barra" (1935), Keskidee Trio[6][5][55][8][17][35]
* "Fire Brigade - Water the Road" (1938), Atilla the Hun[55][5][35]
* "Man Man Biscoe" (1937), Atilla the Hun[23][17]
* "Native Trinidad Kalenda" (1914), Jules Sim[12][6]
* "Reine Maribone (La)" - "Larenn Maribone" (1939), Atilla the Hun[55][23]
* "Sergeant Brown" (1950), Lord Beginner[9][6]
* "Scorpion" (1939), Atilla the Hun[55][23]
* "Ten Thousand to Bar Me One" (1939), Lord Invader[6][35]
* "They Want Fo’ Come Kill me" - "Dey Want to Come Kill me" (1936), Keskidee Trio[6][8]
* "When I Dead Bury me Clothes" (1962), Growling Tiger[35][23]
* "Zingue Tala" - "Zing Gay Ta La La" (1937), Atilla the Hun[55][31][23][43]

## Culture - Steelpan

[edit]

Steelpan - Renegades

* "Bass Man" (1974), Mighty Shadow[13][30]
* "Beat Of a Steelband (The)" - "Steelband (The)" (1946), Lord Kitchener[14][13][6][9][12]
* "Bottle and Spoon" (1981), Lord Relator[13]
* "Carenage Water" (1942), Lord Invader[6][12]
* "Dustbin Cover" (1977), Crazy[36]
* "Engine Room (The)" (1993), David Rudder[28]
* "Guitar Pan (The)" (1997), Lord Kitchener[14][28]
* "Iron Man" (1990) - Lord Kitchener[14][28]
* "Mister Pan Maker" (1987), Black Stalin[14][13][2]
* "Music Pan" (2019), Mighty Sparrow
* "No Pan" (1979), Lord Kitchener[13]
* "Pan Gone" - "Steelband Gone" (1973), Black Stalin[32][14]
* "Pan in A Minor" (1987), Lord Kitchener[7][28]
* "Pan in Danger" (1985), Merchant[7][19]
* "Pan on the Moon" (2009), Scrunter[33]
* "Pan Rising" (2011), Denyse Plummer[51]
* "Pan Talent" (1965), Mighty Terror[7]
* "Pan Woman" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "Play Mr Pannist Play" (1994), Defosto
* "Play One" - "Pan Shootout" (1979), Black Stalin[1][47][2]
* "Retrorama" (2011), Devon Seale[33]
* "Steel and Brass" (1973), King Wellington[7]
* "Steelband Clash" (1953), Lord Blakie[7][20][36][30]
* "Steelband Jamboree" - 2Pan Jamboree" (1966), Mighty Terror[1][47]
* "Steel Band Music" (1964), Lord Kitchener[31][36]
* "Symphony on the Street" (1998), Lord Kitchener
* "Tribute to Clive Bradley" (2006), Defosto[33]
* "Tribute to Pan Pushers" (2001), Lord Blakie[33]
* "War 2004" (2004), Defosto[33]

## Culture - Other

[edit]

* "Ann Sheridan" (1947), Atilla the Hun
* "Ban the Hula Hoop" (1959), Mighty Striker[1][47]
* "Bebop Calypso" (1948), Lord Kitchener[9]
* "Bionic Man" (1977), Maestro[7]
* "Bobby Sox Idol" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[23]
* "Calypso Be Bop" (1957), Lord Flea & his Calypsonians[23][28]
* "CNN Society" (1995), Chalkdust[14]
* "Evening News" (1959), Lord Creator[10][11]
* "From Naipaul to Shame" (2002), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "Get Off the Radio" (1982), Lancelot Layne[32]
* "Hulk" (2018), Blaxx
* "It's the Rhythm we Want" (1939), King Radio[12]
* "Jitterbug" (1941), King Radio[56][23]
* "Kalo Gee Bull Bull" (1974), Lord Shorty[5]
* "Kuch Gadbad Hai" (1985), Babla & Kanchan[5]
* "Pussy Galore" (1962), Young Growler[15]
* "Rumba Dance" (The) (1936), Roaring Lion[56][23]
* "Sanford & Son" (1981), Mighty Sparrow[13]
* "Shakespeare Quotations" (1958), Lord Christo[34]
* "Suzi-Qu" (1940), Roaring Lion[56][23]
* "Teenage Bossa Nova Girl" (1963), Lord Hummingbird[15]
* "Tarzan" (1959), Mighty Spoiler[47][23]
* "Tun Tun" (1982), Mighty Power[13]
* "Vice in Your Own Head" (1957), Lord Creator[23]

## Drugs

[edit]

* "Coke Is Not It" (1986), Mighty Sparrow[18][33][28]
* "Coke Talk" (1988), Chalkdust
* "Death for Sale" (1991), Arrow[3]
* "Drug Report" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Future Belongs to Me (The)" - "I Am Drug Free" (1992), David Rudder[3]
* "Lucifer in Powder Form" - "Lucifer" (1986), Bally
* "Rebecca" (1983), Blue Boy[13][30]
* "Soucouyant" (1992), Mighty Shadow[3]
* "Watch Out My Children" (1989), Ras Shorty I[7][13][49]

## Economy / Poverty

[edit]

* "Ah, Gertie" (1937 ), Lord Caresser[38][23]
* "Ah Tired Do That" (1988), The Mighty Duke
* "Bargee Pelauri" (1936), Roaring Lion[5][38][23][13]
* "Capitalism Gone Mad" (1983), Mighty Sparrow[18][32][28]
* "Commission’s report" (1938), Atilla the Hun[13][23][5][8][37][16][38]
* "Cyar Take Dat" (1996), Brother Resistance[13]
* "Devaluation" (1969), Chalkdust
* "Dollar and the Pound (The)" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][57][9][12]
* "Five Year Plan" (1939), Atilla the Hun[37][25][38][35]
* "Flood (The)" (2020), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Food Distribution" (1947), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Food Prices" (1980), Lord Relator[27][47]
* "Four Cents a Day" (1947), Atilla the Hun[35][8]
* "Full Extreme" (2017), Ultimate Rejects[33][30]
* "Here Now and Long Ago" - "Iere Now and Long Ago" (1935), Atilla the Hun & Lord Beginner[31][13][38]
* "I Don’t Know How the Young Men Living" (1937), Lord Executor[37][31][38]
* "Landlord and Bailiff" (1934), Atilla the Hun[6][23]
* "Laughing in the Ghetto" (2000), Pink Panther[13]
* "Make Them Alright" (1983), Black Stalin[2]
* "Miss Mary’s Advice" (1938), Growling Tiger[23][38]
* "Mr. Nankivell’s speech" (1938), Atilla the Hun[23][13][38][8]
* "Mr. Robinson and Lockjoint" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[18][1]
* "Neurosis of the Rich" (1975), Mighty Sparrow[32][28]
* "No Doctor, No" (1957), Mighty Sparrow[37][18][1][10]
* "No Madame" (1971), Calypso Rose[52][28]
* "No More Bench and Board" - "No mo' bench and board" (1931), Wilmoth Houdini[5]
* "No Vacancy" (2006), Brian London[33]
* "Pay as You Earn" - "Paye" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[18][27][1][20][10][2][30]
* "Piece of the Action" (1976), Black Stalin[10][32]
* "Plant de Land" (1980), Lord Shorty[29]
* "Port of Spain Gone Insane" (1986), Chalkdust[14]
* "Poverty Is Hell" (1994), Mighty Shadow[7]
* "Rich Man Poor Man" (1960), Lord Brynner[7]
* "Rip Off" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Run Something" - "Piece of the Action" (1976), Black Stalin[2][31]
* "Sea Water and Sun" (1986), Chalkdust[14][2]
* "Send your Children to the Orphan Home" (1936), Roaring Lion[23][38]
* "Shop Closing Ordinance" (1937), Lord Executor[23][13][38][43]
* "Strike (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun[23][38][43]
* "Single Tone" (1932), Lionel Belasco[23]
* "Tax Them" (1958), Lord Superior[27]
* "Trinidad Money" - "Trinidad Dollar" (1979), Chalkdust[32]
* "Trinidad the Godfather" - "Trinidad: The Caribbean Godfather" - "Trinidad Godfather (The)" (1980), Mighty Swallow[13][2][32]
* "Try a Screw to Get Through" (1936), Growling Tiger[23][38]
* "Voices From the Ghetto" - "Crying in the Ghetto" (1999), Singing Sandra[7][37][52][41]
* "Wah Yuh Doing" (2017), Chuck Gordon[33]
* "Where Was Butler?" (1938), Atilla the Hun[23][13][38]
* "Worker’s Appeal" (1936), Growling Tiger[4][16][43][17][35]
* "You Can’t Get Away From the Tax" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[37][1][10]

## Education

[edit]

* "Another Day in Paradise" (1997), David Rudder[10][2]
* "Back to School" (1979), Bill Trotman (Trinidad Bill)
* "Change the System" (1995), Cro Cro[13]
* "Child Training" (1969), Mighty Composer[7]
* "Contribution" (2002), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "Dan Is the Man in the Van" - "Dan Is the Man" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[7][1][42][28][22]
* "Doh Waste it" (2010), Aaron Duncan[33]
* "Down the Road" (1938), Growling Tiger[5][38]
* "Education" (1967), Mighty Sparrow[7][28][35]
* "Education Is Key" (2017), Massive[33]
* "Empowerment" (2001), Singing Sandra[14]
* "English Language (The)" (1950), Roaring Lion[14][34]
* "English Language (The)" (1952), Mighty Spoiler[34]
* "Generation Next" (2016), Mistah Shak[33]
* "Ghetto of the Mind" (2009), Singing Sandra[14][33]
* "Go Daniel" (1949), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Idle Company" (1987), Gypsy[14][13]
* "Little Black Boy" (1997), Gypsy[7]
* "No Child Shall Be Left Behind" (2010), Singing Sandra[14]
* "No Respect" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "Obey the Highway Code" (1965), Lord Magic[7]
* "Only the Fools" (2003), Heather McIntosh[33]
* "Parables" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Remember" - "Ma and Pa" (1962), Lord Creator[7]
* "School Days" - "Happy School Days" (1973), Mighty Sparrow[1][47][35]
* "To be an Icon" (2017), All Rounder
* "Too Many" (2016), Gypsy[33]
* "Trinidad English" (1954), Lord Alligator[34]
* "Wash Your Hands" (1950), Roaring Lion[23]
* "Watch the Mixture" (1983), Chalkdust[14]
* "We Pass that Stage" (1974), Mighty Sparrow[18][1][47][28]
* "West Indian Alphabet" (1074), Tradewinds[48]

## Environment

[edit]

* "Mother Earth Crying" (1994), Baron
* "Progress" (1980), King Austin[7][13][33][2][32]
* "Progress 2021" (2021), Crazy
* "What to Do with the Environment" (1994), Chalkdust

## Family relations

[edit]

* "Ah Love my Nani" (2014), Sharleene Boodram
* "Chinese Children Calling Me Daddy" - "Chinese Children" (1950), Mighty Terror[7][1][23][21][24][35]
* "Dead Beat" (2018), Lady Watchman[33]
* "Don’t let me mother know" - "Take me down to Los Iros" (1935), Keskidee Trio[23][12]
* "Family" (1981), Lord Nelson
* "Freddo" (1939), Atilla the Hun[31][23]
* "Gal Come Home With Me" (1941), Atilla the Hun[31][25]
* "He Not Dead Yet" (1962), King Fighter[7]
* "I Need a Man" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[6][12]
* "Mama Popo" - "Doh Beat Mama Popo" (1959), Lord Brigo[7]
* "Marriage (The)" (1997), Black Stalin
* "Mother and Daughter" (2016), Macomere Fifi
* "Mother-in-law" (1967), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Mother’s Love (A)" (1941), Mighty Destroyer[7][23]
* "Mother’s Love" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Nobody Ain’t Go Know" (2007), Cro Cro[33]
* "Obey" (1979), Lord Brigo[1]
* "Par Quiea Mweh" - "Pa Kwiyé Mwen" (Don't Call Me) (1990), Mighty Sparrow[55]
* "Precious" (1991), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Shame and Scandal in the Family" - "Shame and Scandal" (1943), Sir Lancelot[14]
* "Shame and Scandal in the Family" - "Wau Wau" (1962), Lord Melody[19][47]
* "Stay Giving Praises" (1981), Black Stalin[2]

## Feminism

[edit]

Calypso Rose at Womex Awards - 2016

* "Abatina" (2016), Calypso Rose[33]
* "Ah Do Come So" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Ah Done with Dat" (1980), Signing Diane[52][1][46][58]
* "Black Woman" (1991), Ella Andall[52]
* "Bye Bye Blakie" (1969), Calypso Princess[1]
* "Careful What Yuh Ask For" (2011), Karen Asche[33]
* "Caribbean Man" (2000), Singing Sandra[14][35]
* "Caribbean Woman" (1997), Shirlane Hendrickson[2]
* "Carnival Ooman" (1992), David Rudder[35]
* "Coming Back to What" (2013), Marvellous Marva[33]
* "D’Signs" (2008), Spicey[33]
* "Debbie" (1975), Singing Francine[52]
* "Die With My Dignity" - "Die With Dignity" - "Dignity" (1987), Singing Sandra[7][37][52][46]
* "Do Dem Back" (1974), Calypso Rose[52]
* "Do so Eh Like So" (1965), Lord Brigo[1]
* "Don’t Put your Hand on meh Property" (1980), Twiggy[52][46][58]
* "Engagement Ring" (1970), Calypso Rose[52][1]
* "Equaliser (The)" (1998), Singing Sandra[52][41][10]
* "Learn from Arithmetic" (2017), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "Leave Me Alone" (2016), Calypso Rose[59][60][53]
* "Love me or Leave me" (1953), Lady Iere[35][31][1]
* "Me Eh Fighting" (2009), Bally[46]
* "Me No Want No Married Man" - "Me No Want" (1993), Calypso Rose[52][28]
* "Miss Pam" (1993), Calypso Rose[52]
* "No More Hard Work" (1998), Singing Sandra[35][41]
* "Pepper Pepper" (1989), Drupatee[21][10]
* "Pressure" (1987), Carl & Carol Jacobs[35]
* "Raperman Coming (The)" - "Raperman" - "Sexy Employers" (1984), Singing Sandra[52][41]
* "Rocket in Yuh Pocket" (1992), The Mighty Duke[3]
* "Romeo" (1055), Lord Kitchener[34][23]
* "Run Away" (1978), Signing Francine[52][1][21][58]
* "Stone Cold Dead in the Market" - "He Had It Coming" - "Murder in the Market" - "Payne Dead" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini[6][13][15][8][43]
* "Survey (The)" (2018), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Throw Me Down" (1990), Drupatee[52]
* "Woman Is Boss" - "Who’s the Boss?" - "The Boss" (1988), Denyse Plummer[52][13][46][58]
* "Woman Is Not the Weaker Sex" (1941), Atilla the Hun[23][27][8]
* "Woman on the Bass" (1980), Scrunter[7][45][61]
* "Woman Rising" (1991), Easlyn Orr[52]
* "Women of the Land" (1979), Poser[1]
* "Women Their Own Worst Enemy" (2001), Singing Sandra[14]
* "Yes Darling" (1987), Tambu[52][46]
* "You No Need Dem" (1993), Calypso Rose[52]
* "You’re Hurting Me" (1994), Bernadette Paul[52][58]
* "Young Girls Break Away" (1927), Atilla the Hun[8][6]

## Food / Drink

[edit]

* "Callaloo Tonic" (1965), Mighty Terror[35]
* "Chinese Food" (1964), Lord Blakie
* "Chip Chip Water" (1941), King Radio[23]
* "Hot dogs Made their Name" - "Hot Dog Hot Doggie" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini[43]
* "Hurry, Hurry, Come for Curry" (1984), Dave 'Booker' Martin
* "Ice Man (The)" - "Ice Ice" (1960), Lord Melody[5][7]
* "Leave me Alone Dorothy" (1940), Mighty Destroyer[12]
* "Mango Vert" - "Manngo Vé"(1912), Lovey's String Band[23][55][15]
* "Marajhin Cousin" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Pepsi-Cola" (1947), Lord Invader[6]
* "Rum More Rum" (1951), Lord BeginnerLord Beginner[23][9]

## Grandstanding / Boasting

[edit]

* "All Season Man (De)" (1979), Black Stalin[2]
* "Bois Bandé" - "Bwa Bandé" (1968), Mighty Sparrow[55]
* "Bullpistle" (1977), Maestro
* "Dread Wizard" (1979), Mighty Shadow
* "Drunk and Disorderly" - "Natasha" (1972), Mighty Sparrow[20][47][28][30]
* "Du Du Yemi" (1977), Mighty Sparrow[5][10]
* "Dutch Romance" (1989), Mighty Sparrow[5][28]
* "Go Far It" (1945), King Radio[12]
* "I Can Make More Love Than Romeo" (1939), Roaring Lion[34]
* "Iron Duke in the Land" (1914), Julian Whiterose[13][6][15]
* "More they Try to Do Me Bad (The)" (1938), Lord Caresser[23][21][24][12]
* "No Kind ah Man At All" (1973), Mighty Sparrow[1][28]
* "Papa Chunks" (1941), Roaring Lion[7]
* "Portuguese Dance" (1947), King Pharaoh[35]
* "Radio Fifty Wives" (1936), King Radio[8][6]
* "Sock It to Me" (1970), Lord Kitchener[10]
* "Sweet Like Sugar Cane" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Village Ram (The)" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[1][62][5][10][28][35]
* "Whop Whap" (2018), All Rounder
* "Woop Wap" (1964), The Mighty Duke[1][35]

## Health

[edit]

* "Ah Fraid de AIDS" (1988), Mighty Sparrow[3]
* "Asian Flu" (1958), Mighty Wrangler[23]
* "Awakening" (The) (2021), Crazy[33]
* "Backyard Jam" (2021), Farmer Nappy[33]
* "Better Days" (2021), Patrice Roberts[33]
* "Bush Medicine" (1971), Lord Relator[63]
* "Doh JackAss the Scene" (2021), Devon Seale
* "Ebola Scare" (2015), Myron B[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Amery Brown[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Brian London[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Devon Seale[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), His Majesty Baker Jr (First of the chain)[33][64]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Josef Paty[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Michelle Henry[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Raymond Ramnarine[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Roger Mohammed[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Singing Sandra[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Stacey Sobers[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Terri Lyons[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Lady Watchman[33]
* "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Queen Victoria[33]
* "Fighting AIDS" (2005), Adesh Samaroo[33]
* "H.I.V" (2001), Mighty Shadow[33]
* "How I Spent My Time at the Hospital" (1938), Lord Executor[23]
* "Jaws" (1977), Lord Kitchener[14]
* "Melancholy" (2021), Nailah Blackman[33]
* "Ms Corona" (2020), G String[33]
* "Negative to Positive" (1992), Bryan Bumba Payne[3]
* "Pandemic" (2021), Brother Mudada
* "Vaccine or Not" (2021), Kurt Allen[33]
* "Weed Woman" (1952), Bill Rogers[23][9]
* "What Corona Do" (2021), Contender[33]

## Humour / Puns / Smutty

[edit]

(Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948) - Lord Invader

* "60 Million Frenchmen" (1996), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Ah Fraid Pussy Bite Me" (1987), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "All Fool’s Day" (1958), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "Arabian Festival" (1964), Lord Blakie
* "Ash Wednesday" (1983), Chalkdust[14]
* "Barrack Room Scandal" (1953), Mighty Panther[35][23][31]
* "Big Bamboo" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Ballad of Hulsie X" (1988), David Rudder[28]
* "Bedbug Song (The)" (1953), Mighty Spoiler[7][5][1][10]
* "Bitin Insex" (2002), Ronnie McIntosh
* "Bodyline" (1936), King Radio[48][31]
* "Body Wine" (2011), All Rounder[14]
* "Bomber’s Sister" (1960), Mighty Bomber[1]
* "Booboo Man" - Mama Look at Bubu \- "Mama Look a Boo Boo" (1955), Lord Melody[7][19][20][15][10]
* "Bus Conductor (The)" (2001), Poser
* "Carlton, the Peeping Tom" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[23][35]
* "Cat Brain" (1954), Mighty Spoiler[23][47]
* "Cat-O-Nine" (1962), Count Zebra & the Seasiders[15]
* "Centipede in the Bikini" (1967), Lord Blackhat
* "China Man" (1971) Lord Christo[31]
* "Chinese Accident" (1963), Lord Blakie
* "Chinese Cricket Match" (1956), Mighty Dictator[23][5][35]
* "Chinese Football Match" (1998), Trinidad Rio
* "Cock Can’t Stand Up (The)" - "One Foot Cock" (2007), Crazy[35]
* "Coldness of the Water" (1939), Mighty Growler[12]
* "Congo Man" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[27][7][1][10][42][63][35]
* "Congo Man" (2008), Machel Montano[42][28]
* "Congo Pepper" (1977), Maestro
* "Convoy" (1940), The Duke of Iron[5]
* "Corn Plum Plum" (1979), Lord Laro
* "Creature From the Black Lagoon (The)" (1957), Lord Melody[47]
* "Cricket Commentary" (1978), Crazy[48]
* "Cricket Series" - "Female Cricket Series" (1972), Mighty Bomber[48]
* "Curry Tabanca" (1987), De Mighty Trini[21]
* "Deputy" - "Deputy Essential" (1982), Penguin[13][30]
* "Dingo Lay" - "Dingolay" - "Dingolay Oy" (1935), Roaring Lion[6][30][12]
* "Doctor Beckles" (1967), Lord Canary[31]
* "Doctor Bird" (1988), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Dr. Kitsch" - "Needle (The)" (1963), Lord Kitchener[23][35]
* "Doggie" (2002), Anslem Douglas
* "Dollar Wine" (1991), Colin Lucas[10]
* "Donkey City" (1942), Sir Lancelot[6][19]
* "Dumb Boy and Parrot" (1962), Lord Christo[23]
* "Dustbin Cover" (1978), Crazy[7]
* "Electrician (The)" (1975) - Crazy[14]
* "Emelda’s Nightmare" - "Lemme Go Emelda" (1959), Young Killer[21]
* "English Society" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Exchange No Robbery" (1961), Mighty Dougla[23][15]
* "Family Confusion" (1962), Mighty Dougla[23]
* "Fat Pussy Cat and Rat" - "Papa Rat" (2010), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Feeling It" (1984), Baron[14][33]
* "Female Cricketer (The)" (1948), Mighty Dictator[48]
* "Female Woodcutter" (1965), Mighty Terror[35]
* "Fire in Me Wire" - "Fire in Meh Wire" - "Fire" (1967), Calypso Rose[27][7][36]
* "For Cane" - "Goin Fo' Cane" (1972), Gypsy[27][7][1][5]
* "Fork in Napkin" (2011), D-Daz
* "Fountain of Youth" (1960), Mighty Spoiler[1][47]
* "Fresh Water Yankee" (1969), Mighty Cypher[31]
* "Frozen Chicken" - "Frozen Chicken Chest" - "Chicken Chest" (1957), Lord Christo[23][30]
* "Garlic Sauce" (2012), All Rounder[14]
* "Gemma on the Ferris Wheel" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Gimme the Ting" - "Gimme de Ting" (2000), Lord Kitchener[14]
* "Go Down" (2013), All Rounder
* "Grandfather’s Clock" (1960), Mighty Striker[36][31]
* "Greatest Love (The)" (1998), Puppet Master[35]
* "Green Fowl" - "Have you Ever Seen a Green Fowl Yet?" (1946), Mighty Killer[8][44]
* "Grinding Massala" (1958), Mighty Killer[31][8][5][35][44]
* "Gumbo Lai Lai" - "Gombo Lai Lai" - "Gumbo Li Li" (1928), Lord Executor[5][6][8]
* "Handyman (The)" (1968), Lord Kitchener[35]
* "Hit It" (1981), Mighty Gabby[48]
* "Hold de Pussy" - "Hold de Pussy Cat" (1967), Lord Blakie[20][36]
* "How to Prevent Horn" (1974), Lord Shorty[49]
* "Hungry Man from Clapham" (1937), Bill Rogers[23][9]
* "I Ain’t Gonna Do It No More" (1976), Roaring Lion[31]
* "In a Calabash" (1950), Mighty Killer[8][35][30]
* "Iron Man (De)" (1964), Mighty Zandolie[31][22]
* "Joan and James" - "Five Little Popos" (1964), Mighty Bomber[7][47][36]
* "Jonah and the Bake" (1957), Lord Melody[47][5]
* "Jook for Jook" (1968), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Killer Bees" (1992), Lord Kitchener[28]
* "King Liar" (1977), Lord Nelson[7][1][34][29]
* "Kitch: Small Comb, Scratch Me Head" (1950), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Laziest Man (The)" - "Lazy Man" (1961), Mighty Dougla[7][47]
* "Lick Down me Nani" "Car Lick Dowm me Nani (The)" - "Careless Driver" (1992), Drupatee[21][10]
* "Lie" (2007), Singing Sandra
* "Lignum Vitae" (1925), Sam Manning[23]
* "Little Drummer Boy (The)" (1978), Lord Kitchener[1]
* "Lizard (The)" (1969), Mighty Sparrow[14]
* "Looking for Cups" (1991), Trinidad Rio
* "Lucy Garden" (1998), Mighty Sparrow[1][62]
* "Lying Excuses" (1987), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Mad People on a Train" (1967) – Mighty Prowler
* "Mad Scientist" - "What the Scientist Say" (1962), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "Mama Me Belly Ah Hurt Me" (1945), Lord Beginner[12]
* "Man Family" - "Too Much Man Family" (1967) - Mighty Zandolie[7][10]
* "Man For Kim" (1976), Lord Shorty[1][49]
* "Mango Tree" (1951–1953), Lord Kitchener[1]
* "Mango Vert" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[13]
* "Manjhay" - "Manjé" (1989), Mighty Sparrow[55][28]
* "Marabella Wedding" (1935), Growling Tiger[6][8]
* "Marajhin Cousin" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Meh Number is 68" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Merchant of Venice" (1967), Mighty Zandolie[31][34]
* "Mr Herbert" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[1][35]
* "Ms McCarthy party" (1981), King Wellington[5]
* "Missing Ball (The)" - "Guardian Contest (The)" (1939), King Radio[6]
* "Mount Olga" (1947), Lord Kitchener[27][1][16][5]
* "Music Farm" (1997), Machel Montano & Xtatic[28]
* "My Donkey Want Water" (1945), Macbeth the Great[23][10]
* "My Pussin" (1965), Lord Kitchener[7][1][30]
* "Mystery Band" (1993), Lord Kitchener[28]
* "My Boy Joey" (1965), Mighty Beaver
* "Nanny" (1986), Scrunter[21][10]
* "Nanny Revival" (1993), Becket[21][10]
* "Night Cricket" (1960), Lord Tanamo[48]
* "Night Food" (1955), Bedasse (with Calypso Quintet)
* "No Job Suits Striker" - "Can’t Find a Job to Suit Me" (1958), Mighty Striker[47][13]
* "No More Calaloo" – "I Don’t Want No Calaloo" (1939), Mighty Growler[6][5][12]
* "No Toilet in Town" (1983), Chalkdust[14]
* "Old Lady you Mashing my Toe" (1941), Mighty Growler[12]
* "Once Upon a Time" (2003), Mighty Bomber
* "One Day Cricket" (1977), All Rounder[48]
* "Out the Fire" (1937), Roaring Lion[6]
* "Palet" (2005), Calypso Rose[35]
* "Picking Sense From Nonsense" (1955), Mighty Spoiler[47][48]
* "Paul Yer Mudder Come" - "Paul Yuh Mother Come" (1990), Crazy[19][33]
* "Pogo Stick" (2000), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Pounding Rice Fine" (1952), Mighty Spitfire
* "Pussy Cat" (2019), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Queen’s Canary (The)" (1956), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "Ramgoat Batism" (1949), Wonder[30]
* "Sally Sally Water" (1937), Roaring Lion[23][8][17][12][6]
* "Saltfish" (1976), Mighty Sparrow[33][28]
* "Saltfish Price" (1968), Lord Companero[31]
* "Saving That for Company" (1973), Lord Nelson[1]
* "Saxophone No.2" (1953), Lord Kitchener[23]
* "Sell the Pussy" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Severe Licking" (1971), Baron[7]
* "Simpson" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Soca in the Shaolin Temple" (1981), Blue Boy
* "Soft Man" (1984), Penguin[13][35]
* "Soul Chick" (1973), Lord Funny[7]
* "Sparrow Dead" (1969), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Stickman (De)" (1966), Mighty Zandolie[31][35][22]
* "Stuttering Mopsy" (1970), Lord Brigo[31]
* "Supposin'" (1964), Mighty Composer[7]
* "Sweet Mama Ring-Ding-Ding" (1925), Sam Manning[12]
* "Talking Baby" (1984), All Rounder[14]
* "Talking Backwards" (1953), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "Taxi Driver" - "Taxi Driver in Venezuela" (1956), Small Island Pride[1][5]
* "Tick Tick (Story of the Lost Watch)" (1951), King Radio[9][23]
* "Tie Tongue Mopsey" (1946), Lord Kitchener[5][6][8][44]
* "Turn Around Baby" (1945), Roaring Lion[6]
* "Twin Brother" (1959), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "Uncle Jo’ Gimme Mo'" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Virginia’s Alzheimer" (2013), Chalkdust[14]
* "Wash Pan Wash" (1933), King Radio[8][6][30]
* "Webster’s Dictionary" - "Trinidad Dictionary" (1969), Mighty Conqueror[14][36][34]
* "Well Spoken Moppers" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[5][1][35]
* "Whip (De)" (1967), Mighty Zandolie[31]
* "Why me Neighbor Vex with Me" (1927), Railway Douglas[35][23][6][8]
* "Wicked Cricket Match" - "Single Wicket Competition" (1968), Lord Canary[48]
* "Wife and Boat" (1974), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Willie Dead" (1998), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "You Don’t Need Glasses to See" (1945), Lord Invader[23][8]

## Jump up / Carnival dancing / Bacchanal

[edit]

Machel Montano (Reggae Awards 2007)

* "Advantage" (2011), Machel Montano[33][30]
* "Ah Feeling" (2015), Lead Pipe & Saddis[20]
* "Ah Tell She" (1979), Poser[5][33][30]
* "Bacchanal Time" (1993), Superblue[30]
* "Band of the Year" (2006), Patrice Roberts & Machel Montano[33][28][30]
* "Big Truck" (1997), Machel Montano[13][28][30]
* "Black Man Feel Like Party" - "Black Man Come to Party" - "Ah Feel to Party" (1991), Black Stalin[7][29]
* "Brown Sugar" (1979), Lord Melody[47]
* "Can You Feel It" (2016), Aaron Duncan[33]
* "Carnival Come Back Again" (2000), Iwer George[33]
* "Carnival Coming" (1979), Count Robbin
* "Caribbean Party" (1993), David Rudder[2]
* "Come Leh We Jam" - "Soca Jam" (1978), Calypso Rose[30]
* "Dead or Alive" (2005), Shurwayne Winchester[33][30]
* "Differentology" (2013), Bunji Garlin[33]
* "Display" (2003), Fay-Ann Lyons[33][30]
* "Do the Iwer/Butterfly/Shadow/Wave" (1995), Colin Lucas[10]
* "Endless Vibrations" (1974), Lord Shorty[13]
* "Ethel" (1981), Blue Boy[13][30]
* "Face to Face" (1988), The Mighty Duke
* "Famalay" (2019), Machel Montano, Skinny Fabulous & Bunji Garlin[33][30]
* "Fantastic Friday" (2013), Superblue[33][30]
* "Fever" (1975), Lord Kitchener[1][47]
* "Follow the Leader" (1997), Nigel Lewis[35]
* "Footsteps" (1998), Wayne Rodriguez[30]
* "Free Up" (1989), Tambu[13][30]
* "Get On" (2008), Fay-Ann Lyons[33][30]
* "Get on Bad" (2015), Machel Montano[35]
* "Give Me Pressure" (1989), Mighty Shadow
* "Hard Fete" (2023), Bunji Garlin[30]
* "Hot Hot Hot" (1982), Arrow[13][65][35]
* "I Dare You" (2008), Destra[35]
* "It’s Carnival" - "Carnival" (2003), Machel Montano & Destra[10][28]
* "Jab Jab" (1992), Superblue[13][30]
* "Jumbie" - "Ah See You" (2005), Scrunter
* "Jumbie" (2007), Machel Montano[33][28][30]
* "Jump and Wave" (1994), Preacher[30]
* "Jump in the line" (1948), Lord Kitchener[6][9][12]
* "Jump Up" (2009), Byron Lee[35]
* "La La Jam" - "La La" (1976), Lord Nelson[7]
* "Let the Music Play" (1990), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Like a Boss" (2015), Machel Montano[33][30]
* "Look De Band Coming" (2004), Shurwayne Winchester[33][30]
* "Lucy" (2015), Destra[20]
* "Mama Dis Is Mas" (1964), Lord Kitchener[7][30]
* "Margie" (1970), Lord Kitchener[1][30]
* "Mas in Madison Square Garden" (1971), Lord Kitchener[1][13][30]
* "Miss Mary" (1974), Mighty Sparrow[1][47]
* "Miss Tourist" (1968), Lord Kitchener[7][10][30]
* "Move" (1991), Black Stalin[10]
* "Moving (To the Left)" (1996), Nigel Lewis[13][30]
* "My Parade" (2019), Mighty Sparrow
* "Nani Wine" (1989), Crazy[21][10]
* "No No We Eh Going Home" (1990), Tambu[30]
* "Oh Yay" (2016), Olatunji[33]
* "Ola" (2015), Olatunji[20][33]
* "Outa Space" (1999), Machel Montano & Beenie Man[28]
* "Palance" (2010), JW & Blaze[33][30]
* "Party Done" (2015). Angela Hunte & Machel Montano[20]
* "Phenomenal" (2015), Benjai[20]
* "Play your Mas" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[10]
* "Pump Up" - "Carnival Come Back Up" (2000), Superblue[33][30]
* "Pump Yuh Flag" (2012), Machel Montano[33][30]
* "Rack Me Rack Me" (1985), Rootsman
* "River (De)" (1999), Sanell Dempster[28][30]
* "Rock it" (1985), Merchant
* "Sing Ram Bam" (1987), Gypsy[14]
* "Soca Kingdom" (2018), Machel Montano & Superblue[33][30]
* "Soca Movin’ On" (2008), Erphaan Alves[33]
* "Stranger" (2001), Mighty Shadow[33][10][30]
* "Take Your Clothes off" (1993), Spice & Company
* "This Party is It" (1988), Tambu[30]
* "Toronto Mas" (1972), Mighty Sparrow[10][35]
* "Tourist Leggo" (1976), King Short Shirt[7][2]
* "Trinidad" - "Right Hand" (2002), Naya George[33][30]
* "Turn Up" (2017), Bunji Garlin[33]
* "Two Days to Go" - "Two to Go" (1988), Lord Kitchener
* "Waiting on the Stage" (2016), Machel Montano[33][30]
* "Wine on a Bomsie" (1993), Rikki Jai[35]

## LGBTQ

[edit]

* "List (The)" (1985), Mighty Gabby[3]
* "Man Nicer Than Woman" (1963), Mighty Dougla[31]
* "My Experience on the Reeperbahn" (1959), Lord Invader[23]
* "Norman" (1978), Merchant[7][5]
* "Whoopsin" (1941), Roaring Lion[5][6][8][30]
* "Woman’s Sweeter than Man" (1926), Wilmoth Houdini[6][10]

## Machismo / Misogynist

[edit]

* "Bad Woman" (1934), Roaring Lion[6]
* "Bajan Girls" (1928), Macbeth the Great[35]
* "Blood Is Thicker than Water" (1948), Lord Kitchener[23][9][12]
* "Bottom in de Road" (1998), Iwer George[22]
* "Both of Them" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[31][28]
* "Caroline" (1926), Lord Melody[6]
* "Child Father" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Cuff Dem Down" (1974), Mighty Sparrow
* "Dog Bite You" (1978), Lord Kitchener
* "Dolly Doray" (1967), Mighty Zandolie[31]
* "E Pete" - "I Piti" (1976), Lord Shorty[55]
* "Gu Nu Gu" (1979), Mighty Sparrow[5][42][10]
* "Indrani" (1972), Lord Shorty[7][13][5]
* "I Want to Join in Matrimony" (1948), Lord Kitchener[23][9][12]
* "Jagabat Women" (1960), Mighty Bomber
* "Jamaica Woman" (1962), Lord Kitchener[15]
* "Jean Marabunta" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[1][62]
* "Keep the City Clean" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Learn to Cook" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[35][14]
* "Levez Mako" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[55]
* "Loving Woman Is Waste of Time" (1950), The Duke of Iron[23]
* "Lulu" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Man Centapee" - "Man Centipede" "Man Santapee" - "Female of the Species (The)" (1943), Atilla the Hun[23][24][8]
* "Man Like to Feel" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" - "Woman You Can't Fool My Man" (1936), King Radio[6][13][10][8][57][9][12]
* "Man with the Pepper Sauce Is Boss (The)" - "Pepper Sauce" (1987), Mighty Swallow
* "Mary Ann" - "Marianne" - "All Day All Night" (1945), Roaring Lion[7][27][5][24][8]
* "May May" - "Mae Mae" (1960), Mighty Sparrow[7][1][28][35][30]
* "Modern Girl (The)" (1945), Atilla the Hun[23][8]
* "Monica Doo Doo" (1960), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Mr Rake and Scrape" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1][10]
* "Mrs. Harriman" (1972), Lord Kitchener[31]
* "Mr. Walker" (1968), Mighty Sparrow[7][28]
* "My Troubles with Dorothy" (1938), Lord Executor[55][23]
* "Netty Netty" - "Nettie Nettie" - "Can’t Stand the Diggings" (1937), Roaring Lion[5][27][1][34][8][30]
* "No Money No Love" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Nothing for Nothing" - "Give to Get" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Obeah Wedding" - "Melda" (1966) - Mighty Sparrow[7][1][42][63][28][35][30][22]
* "Old Men Come Back Again" (1939), King Radio[23][31]
* "Pretentious Women" (1964), Young Growler
* "Raphaela" (1960), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Rats (The)" (1936), Growling Tiger[23][38][43]
* "Raycan" (1977), King Short Shirt[7]
* "Sa Sa Yay" - "Sa Sa Ay" - "Sa Sa Yé"(1969), Mighty Sparrow[5][55][10][28][30]
* "Shake up" - "Shake Up Shake Up" (1977), Lord Brigo[1]
* "Sixteen Commandments" (1963), Lord Shorty[1]
* "Smoke a Cigarette" (1957), Lord Kitchener[23]
* "Spend Your Money Wise" (1962), Nap Hepburn[23]
* "Stranger Man" (1985), Becket[48]
* "Sugar Plum" (1978), Mighty Shadow[1]
* "Susan Monkey Walk" (1924), Sam Manning[23][9][12]
* "Teaser" (1990), Becket[35]
* "Teresa" (1960), Mighty Sparrow[7]
* "Thirteen Year Old Mabel" (1956), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Thunder" - "Is Thunder" (1987), The Mighty Duke[7][35][30]
* "Treat ‘em Rough" (1951), Atilla the Hun[8][31]
* "Twenty to One" (1974), Lord Kitchener[10]
* "Ugly Woman" - "Marry an Ugly Woman" - "Give an Ugly Woman Matrimony" (1934), Roaring Lion[6][19][10][15][8][9][44]
* "Vincentian Doreen" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Wife and Mother" (1954), Lord Kitchener[1]
* "Women and Money" (1962), Mighty Conqueror[7]
* "Women Police in England" (1951), Mighty Terror[23]
* "Women Will Rule the World" (1935), Atilla the Hun[6][27][12]
* "Young Man’s Slave" (1934), Atilla the Hun[9][23]
* "You Can’t Get Anything Out of Me" (1928), Sam Manning[6]
* "You Gotta Give Away" (1979), Singing Diane (written by Lord Kitchener)[1]

## National identity - Emigration

[edit]

* "B.G. Blues" (1928), Sam Manning[6]
* "Barbados Blues" (1925), Sam Manning[6][12]
* "Bouncing Baby Boy" (1928), Sam Manning[6]
* "Brain Drain" (1968), Chalkdust[27][1][10]
* "Buggy Wuggy in California" (1947), King Radio[6]
* "Caribbean Parkway" (1993), Chalkdust[2]
* "Cold in the Winter" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6][11]
* "Englerston Blues" (1925), Sam Manning[12]
* "Far from Home" (2016), Calypso Rose[29]
* "Food From the West Indies" (1950), Lord Kitchener[6][10][11]
* "Get Out" (2020), Tobago Crusoe[33]
* "Gin and Coconut Water" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[23]
* "Guyanese Come Back Home" (1967), King Fighter[2]
* "Home’s Delight" (1925), Sam Manning[12]
* "Jamaica Farewell" (1966), Lord Creator
* "London is the Place for Me" - "Windrush" (1948), Lord Kitchener[6][37][66][10][28][11]
* "Lorraine" (1981), Explainer[7][13]
* "Mas in Brooklyn" (1969), Mighty Sparrow[2][35]
* "Me One Alone" (1956), Lord Invader[23][35]
* "Nah Leaving" (2001), Denyse Plummer[67]
* "New York Subway" (1946), Lord Invader[6]
* "No More Taxi" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Nora" (1950), Lord Kitchener[6][10][57][9][11][12]
* "Not Tonight" (2014), Pink Panther[33]
* "Prodigal Son" (2013), Chalkdust[14]
* "Stay Home West Indians" (1959), King Fighter[2][31]
* "Sweet Jamaica" (1948), Lord Kitchener[23][10][28][9][11][12]
* "Uncle Sam’s Policy" (1983), Chalkdust[14]
* "Underground Train (The)" (1950), Lord Kitchener[6][57][9][11][12]
* "Wahbeen and Grog" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "We Could Make it if we Try" (1987), Black Stalin[2][28]
* "West Indians in England" (1959), Azie Lawrence[15]
* "Windrush Coming Down" (2020), Clivus[33]

## National identity - Immigration

[edit]

* "Bad Kamawad" (1992), Mighty Pep[2]
* "Columbus Lied" (1989), Mighty Shadow
* "False Papers" (2014), Bodyguard[27]
* "Immigration Problems" (1972), Chalkdust[14]
* "Indian Girls with Creole Names" - "Indian Women with Creole Names" - "Indian People with Creole Names" - Indians Adopting Creole Names (1950), Mighty Killer[27][8][14][35]
* "Indo Law Na Say So" (1959), Lord Inventor[23]
* "Landing of Colombus" (1926), Lord Executor[6][8]
* "Nah Leaving" (2001), Denyse Plummer[27][37][66]
* "Send Them Back" (1960), Lord Blakie[2][35]
* "Small Island" (1945), Lord Invader[5][2][12]
* "Take Me to Trinidad" (1948), Lord Kitchener[23][9][12]
* "Too Botheration" (1938), Mighty Growler[23][38][12]

## National identity - Pride & hope

[edit]

* "A Nation 31 Years Old" (1994), Delamo[13]
* "As a Nation Forges On" (1988), Denyse Plummer[13]
* "Belle Trinidad (La)" 1937, Atilla the Hun[25][23][35]
* "Beautiful Land of Iere" (1938), Growling Tiger[31][14][35]
* "Change" (2018), Helon Francis[33]
* "Charming Trinidad" (1939), Roaring Lion[6][56]
* "Foreigner" (1978), Lord Nelson
* "God Bless Our Nation" (1967), Lord Baker[7][2][10][11]
* "Great Nation" (2018), Myron B[33]
* "Holidays in Trinidad" (1967), Mighty Cypher[31]
* "I Am" (2019), Erphaan Alves[33]
* "I Believe" (2015), Chucky[33]
* "I Stand for Trinbago" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "Jamaica is the Place to Go" (1955), Charlie Binger[15]
* "Land of the Humming Birds" (1928), Sam Manning[6]
* "Lend a Hand" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "National Pride" (1983), Chalkdust[14]
* "National Pride" (2002), Singing Sandra[14]
* "National Unity" (1996), Chalkdust[14]
* "Oh Land of Mine" (2006), Crazy[33]
* "Our Model Nation" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[11]
* "Paradise" (2016), Helon Francis[33]
* "Paramaribo" (1937), Lord Caresser[38][23]
* "Sing for the Land" (1985), Black Stalin[2]
* "Soulful Calypso" (1977), Maestro
* "Sweet Trinidad" (2009), Lord Funny[35]
* "They Can’t Beat We" (1989), Chalkdust[14]
* "This Land is Mine" (1990), Drupatee[51]
* "Trini to the Bone" (2003), David Rudder[27]
* "Vision of T&T in 2010" (1998), Mystic Prowler[51]
* "We Is We" (1972), Chalkdust[14][63]
* "We’re Ten Years Old" (1972), Chalkdust[31]
* "Where Are your Heroes" (1973), Tradewinds[48]

## News events - West Indies

[edit]

* "Abu Bakr Take Over" (1991) Preacher[13]
* "Ah Wo" (1980), Valentino[2]
* "Bandsman Shooting Case" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Bargee (The)" (1925), Sam Manning[9][12]
* "Barking Beef" (2005), Shalleika Hazell[33]
* "Beyond the Boundary" (1993), M’ba[13]
* "Black Miss Universe (The)" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Cadavers" (1985), Mighty Gabby[22]
* "Caroni Close Down" - "Caroni Close Dong" (2004), Adesh Samaroo[33]
* "Cipriani's and Bradshaw’s Death" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[6][13]
* "Claude" (2020), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Clause Four" (1987), Mighty Trini
* "Cock Fight" (1969), Mighty SparrowKing Radio[10]
* "Country Club Scandal" (1933), King Radio[27][38][8]
* "Cubana Crash (The)" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "Curfew Time" (1971), Lord Kitchener[13]
* "Do you Want a Watchman" (1994), Watchman[13]
* "Doc Secret Wedding" - "The Doc’s Wedding" (1959), Growling Tiger[14][10]
* "Drama Island" (2011), David Rudder[33]
* "Duke and Duchess of Kent (1935), Atilla the Hun[23][13][10][17][11]
* "Dynamite" (1934), Lionel Belasco[6]
* "Fire Fire" - "Calypso Coup" (1991), Bally[13]
* "Freaking Streaking" (1980), The Mighty Duke[20]
* "Get Something and Wave" (1991), Superblue[13][10][35][30][22]
* "Good Will Flyers" (1934), Atilla the Hun[14][31][23][9][12]
* "Graf Zeppelin" (1934), Atilla the Hun[4][6][7][16][8]
* "Guest List (The)" (2020), Michelle Henry[33]
* "Hang Him" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Hosay Massacre (The)" (2021), George Rampersad
* "Hoosay" (1991), David Rudder[10]
* "Is Butler Married" (1948), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Jack" - "Dah Beach is Mine" (1982), Mighty Gabby
* "Jamaica Hurricane" (1951), Lord Beginner[6]
* "Janelle ‘Penny’ Commissiong" (1978), Lord Kitchener[13]
* "Lieutenant Julian" (1928), Sam Manning[6]
* "Looting in B.G." (1962), Mighty Cypher[2]
* "Mama, Call the Fire Brigade" (1957), Houdini[35][23]
* "Maxi Dub" (1993), Bally[45][13]
* "Message to George Weeks" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Ministry of the Road" (2014), Machel Montano[33][30]
* "Not in Here" (2020), Duane O’Connor[33]
* "Not Martin" (2020), Makenda Marius[33]
* "Oh Grenada" (2014), Cro Cro[33]
* "Oil Cyar Spoil" (2019), Tamika Darius[33]
* "Out de Fire" (1957), Lord Flea[15]
* "Post Another Letter For Thelma" (1952), Mighty Spitfire[68][13][30]
* "Saga of the PRA" (1984), Valentino[2]
* "Say a Prayer for Abu Bakr" (1991), Cro Cro[13]
* "Skyscraper" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Some Came Running" (1976), Maestro
* "Telco Poops" (1978), Mighty Penguin[68]
* "Traffic Jam" (1987), Gypsy[14]
* "Treasury Fire" (1933), Lord Beginner[5][6][24]
* "Tribute to Princess Margaret" (1958), Mighty Striker[47][36]
* "Trinidad Hurricane" (1933), Wilmoth Houdini[23][13]
* "Vincent Brown the Magistrate" - "Kenneth Vincent Brown" (1930), Atilla the Hun[8][27]
* "We Shall Rise Again" (2005), Super P[33]
* "Welcome to Chinatown" (2020), Signing Sonia[33]
* "Who in de Zoo" (2012), Contender[33]
* "Wounded National Pride" - "Manningitus" (2011), Chalkdust[33]

## News events - World

[edit]

* "1990" (1990), David Rudder[13]
* "Aid Haiti" (2010), Kizzie Ruiz[33]
* "Ben Lion" (2002), André Tanker[33]
* "Birth of Ghana" (1956), Lord Kitchener[6][16][10][9][11]
* "Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (The)" (1953), Roaring Lion[10][11]
* "Crown Heights Justice" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[18][13][28]
* "De Infidel" (2010), Short Pants[33]
* "Doh Touch Me President" (1999), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Double Ten" (1946), Lord Kitchener[5][8][44]
* "Down to the Bone" (1992), Cheryl & Colors[2]
* "Edward the VIII" - "King Edward the VIII" - "Love, Love Alone" (1937), Lord Caresser[5][1][6][10][24][38][21][14][43][11][12]
* "Festival of England" - "Festival of Britain" - "Festival of London" (1950), Lord Kitchener[10][9][11]
* "French President Visit Great Britain (The)" (1950), Preston Coleman[23][57][9][12]
* "His Majesty King George the 6th Coronation" (1937), Atilla the Hun[31][10]
* "I Was There at the Coronation" - "I was There" (1953), Young Tiger[23][13][10][11]
* "Innocent Jimmy" (1989), All Rounder[45][13]
* "Jonestown Massacre" (1979), Chalkdust[14]
* "Lieutenant Julian" (1928), Sam Manning[13][23]
* "Lindbergh Baby (The)" (1937), Lord Executor[43]
* "Magistrate Try Yourself" - "Magistrate Try Himself" (1958), Mighty Spoiler[1]
* "Man on the Moon" (1969), Lord Cobra y Los Pana Afros[15]
* "Megan my Dear" (2020), Terri Lyons[33]
* "New Orleans" (2006), Brother Mudada[33]
* "New York City Blackout" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Nigerian Registration" (1955), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "O.J. Simpson" - "Juice Is Loose (The)" (1996), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Phillip My Dear" - "Man in de Bedroom" (1983), Mighty Sparrow[18][45][42][10][11]
* "Potatoe" (1993), David Rudder[13]
* "Prince Rainer" (1956), Lord Invader[23]
* "Professor Carver" - "Tribute to Professor Carver" (1943), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Roosevelt Opens the World Fair" (1939) Wilmoth Houdini[23][43]
* "Royal Divorce" (1996), Mighty Sparrow[13]
* "Ruby" - "Missing Baby (The)" (1955), Mighty Sparrow[23]
* "Russian Satellite" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[18][37][1][13]
* "Shaka Shaka" - "Shaka" (1988), Bally[13]
* "Skylab" (1979), Charlie's Roots[1]
* "Tantie Merle" (1979), Chalkdust[14]
* "Terrorism Gone Wild" (1986), Calypso Rose[13]
* "War of Worlds" (2018), Ras Commanda[33]

## Politics West Indies - Before Trinidad's Independence (1962)

[edit]

* "Abraham Lincoln Speech at Gettysburg" (1960), Growling Tiger[10][11]
* "Adrian Rienzi" (1938), Atilla the Hun
* "Britain, Give us our Freedom" (1950), Atilla the Hun[16][35]
* "Christmas Eve Night on Quarry Street" (1946), Atilla the Hun[8][35]
* "Class Legislation" (1920), Cromwell The Protector[19][8][6][16][63][35][44]
* "Cooks in Trinidad (The)" (1930), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Dalley's Report" (1948), Atilla the Hun[8]
* "Daniel Must Go" (1950), Growling Tiger[1][16]
* "Doctor Make your Love" (1959), Lord Melody[32][23][10]
* "Don’t Blame the PNM" (1958), Mighty Striker[1][13][10][35]
* "General Election" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][57][9][12]
* "Governor Jerningham" (1898), Lord Persecutor[1][6][27][16][62][34][8][5][44]
* "Governor’s Resignation (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun[23][13][38][17]
* "Honorable Captain Cipriani" (1929), Lord Beginner[8]
* "I Ain’t Butler" (1938), King Radio[8]
* "King George’s Silver Jubilee" (1935), Lord Beginner[6]
* "Labour Situation in Trinidad (The)" (1939), Growling Tiger[6][16]
* "Leave the Dam Doctor" (1960), Mighty Sparrow[18][26][1][10][32][28][35]
* "Million Dollar Jail" (1947), Atilla the Hun[16][14][8]
* "Present Government" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[18][1][10]
* "Sedition Law" (1940), King Radio[37][13][38]
* "Water Scheme Workers" (1934), Growling Tiger[16]
* "We Mourn the Loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher" (1938), Lord Executor[37][38][43]
* "We Want a Trinidadian" - "Cipriani" (1925), Lord Executor[8][16]
* "Wear Your Balisier" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1][10][35]

## Politics - Federation (West Indies) / Caribbean Unity

[edit]

* "Advice to West Indians" (1939), Growling Tiger[69]
* "Capital Site" (1958), Lord Melody[23][10][11]
* "Caribbean Connection" (1988), Merchant[13][2][69]
* "Caribbean Unity" - "Caribbean Man" (1979), Black Stalin[3][27][7][1][20][10][2][21][32][63][69]
* "Cry of the Caribbean" (1992), Black Stalin[2]
* "Cry of the West Indies" (1968), Young Killer[69]
* "Expedite Federation" (1933), Atilla the Hun[2][8][69]
* "Federal Site" (1959), Wrangler[31][23]
* "Federated Islands" (1956), Mighty Bomber[10][2][69][11]
* "Federation" (1957), King Fighter[10][2][69][11]
* "Federation" (1951), Lord Beginner[2][9][69]
* "Federation" (1957), Lord Kitchener[2][23][9][69]
* "Federation" - "We Are as One" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[26][27][7][18][1][20][16][10][2][28][35][29][69][22]
* "Federation" - "What’s Federation" (1956), Small Island Pride[2][69]
* "Federation Calypso" - "Ah Glad for Federation" (1958), King Striker[10][31][69][11]
* "Grenada Crisis" - "Grenada Must Join" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[18][2]
* "Montego Bay Conference" (1947), Atilla the Hun[2][16][8][69]
* "One Caribbean" (1994), David Rudder[2][69]
* "Referendum" - "Jamaican Referendum" (1962), Lord Laro[2][69]
* "Save the Federation" (1965), Lord Nelson[31]
* "Take Your Meat of my Rice" (1967), Lord Kitchener[2]
* "Trinidad Have Federation Already" (1956), Atilla the Hun[2][8][69]
* "West Indian Federation" (1937), Atilla the Hun[16][23][6][35][69]
* "West Indies Get Together" (1952), Roaring Lion[9]

## Politics (West Indies) - From Trinidad independence (1962)

[edit]

Mighty Gabby

* "3 Bo-Rats" (1988), Cro Cro[20][13]
* "A Nation’s Calypso" - "Our Nation’s Calypso" (1962), Lord Brynner[10]
* "Abu Bakr" (1991), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Advice to the Boss" (2016), Cro Cro[33]
* "Ah Can’t Bury Williams" - "I Can’t Bury Eric Williams",(1999), Chalkdust[50][37]
* "Ah Fraid Karl" (1972), Chalkdust[50][1][10]
* "Ah Lost Roy" (2002), Chalkdust[14]
* "Ah Put on Me Guns Again" (1976), Chalkdust[50]
* "Ah Ready to Go" (1998), Sugar Aloes[52]
* "All Yuh Look for Dat" (1996), Cro Cro[27]
* "Aloo Sing" (2013), De Fosto[33]
* "B.G. War" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[18][2]
* "Bad John Willie" (1980), Chalkdust[10]
* "Balance (The)" (2003), Mystic Prowler[33]
* "Balance Wheel" (1982), Calypso Rose[10]
* "Barking Dogs" (1973), Brother Valentino[10][34][32]
* "Better Days" - "Better Days Are Coming" (1984), Black Stalin[20]
* "Betty Goaty" (1982), Penguin[10]
* "Break Down Party" (1980), Black Stalin[10][2][32]
* "Bring the Ayatollah" - "Ayatollah" (1980), Chalkdust[32]
* "Boat Road" (2016), Myron B[33]
* "Boots" (1983), Mighty Gabby[13][22]
* "By Other Men’s Fault" (2016), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Call Dem Out" (2014), Brian London[33]
* "Call to Prayer (The)" (2017), Queen Victoria
* "Castro No not Trinidad" (1963), Lord Christo[4]
* "Cuba" (1994), David Rudder[2]
* "Democracy in Haiti" (1995), Mighty Sparrow[18][13]
* "Haiti" (1988), David Rudder[2][22]
* "Chambers" (1980), Explainer[37]
* "Chamber Done See" (1985), Plain Clothes[65]
* "Chauffeur Wanted" - "New Driver Cannot Drive (The)" (1989), Chalkdust[50][13]
* "Check the Foundation" (2006), Luta[33]
* "Clear Your Name" (1974), Chalkdust[50][14][10]
* "Crapeaud Revolution" - "Crapaud Revolution" (1981), Scrunter[10]
* "Deaf Panman" (1974), Lord Relator[10][32]
* "Dey Lucky Ah Have Children" (1988), Chalkdust
* "Diary of a Mad Man" (2011), Calypso Prince[33]
* "Doctor Ent They" - "De Doctor Eh Dey" (1965), Lord Blakie[1][10][2][32]
* "Dread Man" (1976), Maestro[10]
* "Eric Loves Me" - "Eric William Loves Me" (1980), Chalkdust[14][10][32]
* "Eric Williams Dead" (1988), Chalkdust
* "Eye Problem" (2010), Chalkdust[33]
* "F.D.A.T" (2014), Devon Seale[33]
* "Fishmonger" - "Chalkie the Fishmonger" (2004), Chalkdust[14]
* "Final Send Off" (2017), Cro Cro[33]
* "From Then to Now" (1987), Mighty Shadow[10]
* "Game Show Politics" (2013), Devon Seale[33]
* "Get to Hell Outa Here" - "Get to Hell Out" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[18][1][10][2][34][32]
* "Goat Mouth Doc" (1972), Chalkdust[50][10]
* "Good Driving" (1994), Luta[13]
* "Good Manning Mr Manning" (1992), Rootsman[5][37]
* "Grenada" - "Under Siege" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Grenada Man" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Guest List (De)" (2014), Chalkdust[14]
* "Honesty" (1966), Mighty Sparrow[27][10][32]
* "Hostage" (2017), Vigilanté
* "I Carmona" (2017), Devon Seale
* "I Eric Eustace Williams" (1982), Crusoe[10]
* "I in Town Too Long" (2005), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "I Love You" (2007), Maria Bhola[33]
* 'In Just Six Years" (2003), Skatie[33]
* "Independence" (1962), Mighty Dougla[10]
* "Independence" - "Trinidad and Tobago Independence" - "Independence Calypso" - "Our Nation" (1962), Lord Brynner[13][11][48]
* "Independence of Beautiful Bahamas" (1973), Lord Hummingbird[11]
* "Independent Jamaica" (1977), Lord Creator[10][13]
* "Jamaica’s 1st Anniversary" (1963), Lord Creator[11]
* "Jubilation" (2002), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "Just So" (2003), Chalkdust[33]
* "Kicksin in Parliament" (1979), Explainer[1]
* "Last Election" (1967), Mighty Cypher[1][47][10]
* "La Trinity" - "Don’t Cry for Me" (1990), Denyse Plummer[52][29]
* "Let the Games Begin" (2000), Brother Valentino[33]
* "Let the Jackass Sing" (1974), Chalkdust[27][50][10]
* "Luta’s Advice" (2010), Heather MacIntosh[33]
* "Madness" - "St Ann’s" (1987), David Rudder[10]
* "Manning Must Go" (2010), Crazy[27]
* "Massa Day Must Done" - "Massa Day Must Done" (1974), Chalkdust[31][50]
* "Moo Moo Talking" (1996), Third Eye
* "More Mad than Me" (2017), Myron B[33]
* "Mr Panday Needs Glasses" (1997), Watchman[13]
* "Mr Trinidad" (1974), Maestro[37]
* "My Corn Tree" (2017), Kurt Allen
* "My Hart and I" (2009), Chalkdust[14][33]
* "My Humble Plea" (1985), Devon Seale[27][33]
* "My Way of Protest" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "New Portrait of Trinidad" (1972), Black Stalin[1][29]
* "No Winners" (2002), Denyse Plummer[33]
* "Not a damn Seat for Them" (1982), Lord Kitchener[13][35]
* "Not a Damn Seat for Them" (1982), Lord Pretender[13]
* "On Turning 50" (2012), Singing Sandra[14]
* "One Day" (1986), Natasha Wilson[33]
* "Only Games" (2018), Jahson I Am[33]
* "Our Model Nation" - "Model Nation" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[18][27][1][16][62][2][10][28]
* "Picture Picture" (2006), Skatie[33]
* "Plight of My People" (2017), Lady Gypsy[14]
* "PNM Loves Me" - "Somebody in PNM Loves me" (1973), Chalkdust[50][32]
* "PNM March" (1977), Lord Kitchener
* "Political Lightning" (2012), Bunny B[33]
* "Political Sin Phony" (2013), Kurt Allen[33]
* "Political Wonder" (1970), Mighty Bomber[10][32]
* "Portrait of Trinidad" (1965), Mighty Sniper[27][7][1][2][36][32][10][35][29][11]
* "Positive Vibrations" (1990), Sugar Aloes[35]
* "Ram the Magician" - "Ram D’ Magician" (1984), Chalkdust[14]
* "Reflections" (2008), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "Reflections of Our Late Prime Minister" (1981), De Fosto[10]
* "Respect God’s Voice" (2016), Devon Seale[33]
* "Road Bad (The)" (2016), Chalkdust[33]
* "Road Protest" - "D’Asphalt" (2013), Mistah Shak[33]
* "Rose (The)" (1985), Chucky Gordon[27][33]
* "Rowley Letter (The)" - "Letter to Keith Rowley" (2003), Chalkdust[50]
* "Rowley Rowley" (2018), Tigress[33]
* "Sailing" (1987), Mighty Trini[13]
* "Selwin in the Garden Hiding" - "Adam in the Garden Hiding" (1996), Chalkdust[14]
* "Shango Vision" (1977), Chalkdust[1][47][32]
* "She’s Royal" (2012), Sugar Aloes[27][33]
* "Sinking Ship (The)" (1986), Gypsy[27][7][37]
* "Snake in the Balisier" (1983), Mighty Shadow
* "Solomon Out" (1965), Mighty Sparrow[18][1][10][2][32]
* "Some Body Mad" - "Somebody Mad" (1973), Chalkdust[27][50][10][32]
* "Spranger’s Story (A)" (2013), Tobago Chalkie[33]
* "Steel Beam" - "We Like it So" (1981), Mighty Sparrow[13][28]
* "Strange Case of Madam Occhahontas and the Westminster Dreadlocks (The)" (1996), David Rudder[13]
* "Take a rest" (1980), Lord Relator[27][47][10][32]
* "Three Blind Mice" (1976), Chalkdust[19][47][2][32]
* "To Lloyd with Love" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "To Sir with Love" (1981), Maestro[10][32]
* "Too Bright" (2010), Kurt Allen[33]
* "Too Much Party" (2004), Chalkdust[50]
* "Trade Union" (1939), Growling Tiger[37][13]
* "Travel Woes" (2013), Pink Panther[33]
* "Trini Does Lie" (1986), Chalkdust[14]
* "Oh Trinidad" (1976), Lord Shorty[10]
* "Try Obeah" (1989), Chalkdust[14]
* "Tug O War Society" (2000), Chalkdust[14]
* "Two sides of a Shilling" (1971), Chalkdust[50][10][1][32]
* "Ungrateful Pastor" (2007), Bodyguard[33]
* "Vampire Year" - "Vampires" (1981), Black Stalin[2][32]
* "Vision 20/20" (2002), Karene Asche[33]
* "Vote Dem Out" (1986), Déplé[27][37][35]
* "Uncle Jack" (2011), Karene Asche[33]
* "Wajang" - "Yuh Ain’t See Wajang Yet" (2009), Tigress[33]
* "We’re Ten Year Old" (1972), Chalkdust[50]
* "We Doh Want It" (1992), Cro Cro
* "We Kinda Leader" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Wey you Think" (2014), Chucky Gordon[33]
* "Wha Yuh Doing" (2017), Chucky Gordon
* "When Elephant Fight" (2019), Gypsy[33]
* "When Mas Was Mas" (2010), Chalkdust[14]
* "Why ah Stay" (2000), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "Why I Left, Why I Returned" (1974), Lord Superior[10]
* "William the Conqueror" (1958), Mighty Sparrow[18][26][27][37][1][10]
* "Woman to Woman" (2011), Tigress[33]
* "Wrap Spoon and Fork in Napkin" (2019), Hunter

## Politics - USA

[edit]

* "American Election" (1945), Atilla the Hun
* "Barack the Magnificent" (2007), Mighty Sparrow[47][33]
* "Black Coffee" (2009), Lord Superior[33]
* "Death of Kennedy" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[13][31]
* "Jump for Jesse" (1988), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Kennedy and Khrushchev" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[4][18][1]
* "Martin Luther King" - "Tribute to Martin Luther King" (1968), Black Stalin[13][2]
* "Martin Luther King" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Martin Luther King for President" (1964), Mighty Sparrow[18][10]
* "Muhamed Ali" (1971), Samson the Lark[13]
* "Obama the First" (2009), Sugar Aloes[33]
* "One for Obama" (2009), Twiggy[33]
* "Watergate" (1973), Mighty Cypher[13]
* "Weapons of Mass Dis-Illusion" (2007), Mighty Sparrow[18]

## Politics - World (Other)

[edit]

* "Ayatollah" (1981), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Burn Dem" (1992), Black Stalin[7][13]
* "Heaven" (1995), David Rudder[13][10]
* "Idi Amin" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[18][1][10][28]
* "Isms Schims" (1984), Black Stalin[39][2]
* "Leaders on the Run" (1987), Gypsy[14]
* "Lift the Iron Curtain" (1958), Lord Ivanhoe & his Caribbean Knights[23][37][15]
* "London Bridge" - "London Bridge is Falling Down" (1980), Mighty Sparrow[18][13]
* "More Come" (1986), Black Stalin[39]
* "Satan in Control" (1988), Gypsy
* "Stay up Zimbabwe" (1979), Brother Valentino[5][63]
* "Tables Turning (The)" (1980), Explainer[32][63]
* "Undemocratic Rhodesia" (1971), Samson the Lark[13]
* "United Africa" (1963) - Black Stalin[2][63]
* "Vile Doctrine" (1964), Lord Brynner[4]
* "Wanted Dead or Alive" (1980), Mighty Sparrow[18][2][63][28]
* "We won’t Give Up" (1977), The Mighty Duke[63]

## Promotion / Advertising

[edit]

* "Bells (The)" (1937), Lord Executor[5]
* "Coffee Coffee" (1945), Atilla the Hun[23]
* "Diamond T" (1945), Atilla the Hun
* "Rum Is Macho" (1980), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Sa Gomes’ Emporium"' (1935), Keskidee Trio[23][13][17]
* "Toddy" (1929), Anonymous from Toddy Syndicate[8][6]

## Racial identity / Slavery

[edit]

Dr Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool

* "42 Years Gone" (2005), Marvellous Marva[10][11]
* "101%" (2019), De Mighty Trini[33]
* "Africa" (1955), Lord Beginner[6]
* "Africa Here I Come" (1958), Lord Ivanhoe[9]
* "Africa My Home" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6][10][9][11]
* "African Love Call" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "African War Call" - "African War Song" (1938) - Roaring Lion[23][43]
* "All African" (1971), Lord Superior[63]
* "Ambas Pons Marabella" - "Enba Pon Marabella" (1838), Anonymous (patois)[55][5][8][35]
* "Ambataila Woman" (1991), United Sisters[52]
* "Answer to Black Power" - "Answer for Black Power (The)" (1968), Chalkdust[4][27][1][32]
* "Belle Marie Coolie" - "Bèl Mawi Kouli" (1914), J. Resigina - aka Julian Whiterose[55][6][23]
* "Black Child’s Prayer" (1983), Chalkdust[14][63]
* "Black Identity" (1973), Maestro[27]
* "Black Inventions" (1979), Chalkdust[14]
* "Black is Beautiful" (1969), The Mighty Duke[7][37][42][36][63][49]
* "Black Power" (1971), Lord Kitchener[31]
* "Black Power in Trinidad" (1971), The Mighty Duke[31][4]
* "Body Parts" (1997), Trinidad Rio[13]
* "Children of a Lesser God" (2020), Crazy[33]
* "Chop the Hand" (2005), Cro Cro[11]
* "Coloured Cricket" (1956), Mighty Cypher[48]
* "Crisis in Arkansas" (1959), Lord Invader[23][37]
* "Emancipation" (1933), Lionel Belasco[6]
* "Emancipation" (2018), Dunstan Carwash Lawrence
* "Emancipation Centenary" (1933), Atilla the Hun[16][63][8]
* "Emperor of Africa (The)" (1954), Mighty Terror[6][9]
* "Ganges and the Nile" (1999), David Rudder[7][13]
* "Glorious Centenary" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[27][13]
* "God Made Us All" (1947), Lord Invader[6][16][10][11]
* "Guardian Beauty Contest" (1955), Atilla the Hun[16][8]
* "Heart Transplant" (1969), King Short Shirt[13]
* "Heading North" (1958), Mighty Terror[23][37]
* "Hello Africa" (1977), Eddy Grant[42]
* "High Brown" (1939), Mighty Growler[12]
* "Human Race" (2016), Calypso Rose[53]
* "Human Rights" (1979), Mighty Shadow
* "I am Going Back Home to Africa" (1956), Lord Invader[9]
* "I owe no Apology" (1991), Mighty Sparrow[10]
* "If You’re Not White You’re Black" - "Black or White" (1953), Lord Kitchener[37]
* "Imitation Rasta" (1979), Funny[5]
* "Jahaji Bhai" (1996), Brother Marvin[7][13]
* "Jahaji Blues" (1997), Gregory Ballantyne[13][51]
* "Liberation" (1973), Valentino[32]
* "Love African Style" (1979), Mighty Sparrow[10][42][63]
* "Love One Another" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[28]
* "Memories of 1970" (1971), The Mighty Duke
* "Message of 70's (The)" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "Mr. African" (1976), Explainer[1]
* "My Grandfather’s Backpay" - "Grandfather’s Backpay" - "Grandpa’s Pay Day" (1985), Chalkdust[39][14]
* "Mock Democracy" (1966), Lord Cristo[37]
* "Negro Heart" (1968), Lord Zebra[15]
* "No Freedom" (1970), Lord Kitchener[4]
* "No Revolution" (1971), Brother Valentino[27][1][10][2][32]
* "Nothing Come Easy" (1982), Black Stalin[14]
* "Phrase (The)" (2017), Terri Lyons
* "Racism" (2007), Mighty Sparrow[18]
* "Raise your Head" (1979), Mighty Crooner[63]
* "Roaring Seventies (The)" (2013), Valentino[2]
* "Say my Name" (1997), Ella Andall[70]
* "Slave (The)" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[18][27][7][19][1][16][10][62][23][42][63][35][22]
* "Song for Healing" (1999), Singing Sandra[52]
* "Song for We" - "Sing ah Song for We" (2008), Brian London[33]
* "Sons and Daughters of Africa" (1952), Lord Beginner[23][35][9]
* "Split Me in Two" (1961), Mighty Dougla[27][7][37]
* "Still Colonial2 (2017), Meguella Simon[33]
* "Straight Hair Girl" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][9]
* "Sufferers" (2000), Black Stalin[14]
* "Sweet Like a Honey Bee" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini[6]
* "Teach the Children" - "Teach Your Children" (1976), The Mighty Duke[16][42][63]
* "Theme for African Liberation" (1977), Chalkdust[14]
* "They Ain’t See Africa at All" - "They Ain’t African at All" (1984), Chalkdust[14][63]
* "Twentieth Century Greats" - "20th Century Greats" (1976), Chalkdust[14]
* "Uhuru" (1977), The Mighty Duke[63]
* "Um Ba Ya Oh2 - "Um Ba Yao" (1978)[7]
* "Unite African" (1990), Mighty Shadow[35]
* "White People Laughing at We" (1987), Chalkdust[14]

## Religion - Christian / Gospelypso

[edit]

* "Ezekiel Coming" (2017), Calypso Rose[27]
* "Fall of Man" (1936), Roaring Lion[23][17][12][6]
* "Go Down the Valley" (1935), Keskidee Trio[23][5]
* "His Holy Name" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
* "I Am What I Am" (2017), Calypso Rose[27]
* "I Used to Be a Sinner" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
* "Miracle of Jesus" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
* "One Super Power" (2010), Tony Barclay
* "Salvation" (1983), Blue Boy[33]
* "Salvation" (1994), Mighty Sparrow[52][14]
* "Sing for the Lord" (2010), Brother Mudada[36]
* "Soca Baptist" (1980), Blue Boy[7][1][63][30]
* "Temptation of Christ" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
* "When the Roll is Called up Yonder" (1984), Chalkdust[14]
* "Who God Bless" (1978), Ras Shorty I[13]
* "Wisdom of Christ" (2003), Mighty Sparrow

## Religion - Others

[edit]

* "Hard Hard Hard" (1986), Black Stalin
* "Judge Me Not" (2008), Singing Sandra[14]
* "Om Shanti Om" (1979), Lord Shorty[5][13][51]
* "One Day of Prayer" (2004), Singing Sandra
* "Power in Song" (2018), Singing Sandra[14]
* "Ras Mass" (1981), Explainer[7][36]
* "Rastaman" - "Rastaman Be Careful" (1979), Lord Melody[47]
* "Rastamania" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "True Colours" (2000), Singing Sandra[14]

## Shango / Folklore

[edit]

* "Bassman" (1974), Mighty Shadow[7][71][1][22]
* "Bongo" (1969), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Bongo Dance" (The) (1937) - The Growler[42]
* "Children Ting (The)" (1976), Mighty Shadow[71]
* "Devil Behind Me (The)" - "Leggo" (1940), Wilmoth Houdini[23][55][43]
* "Jumbie Jamberee" - "Zombie jamboree" - "Back to Back" (1953), Lord Jellicoe (Also Lord Intruder)[23]
* "Jumbies" (1979), Mighty Shadow[71]
* "La Jobless" - "Labejeless Woman (The)" - "Lajobless Woman (The) - "Ladjablès"" (1938) - Lord Executor[23][55][34]
* "Love in the Cemetery" (1962), Lord Kitchener[7][15]
* "Mamie Water" (1955), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Obeah" (2020), Terri Lyons[33]
* "Obeah Man" - "Take Me to the Obeah Man" (1979), Mighty Sparrow[42]
* "Pay the Devil" (1994), Mighty Shadow[71]
* "Return of the Bassman" (1984), Mighty Shadow[71]
* "Shango" (1938), Lord Caresser[23][42]
* "Shango" (1932), Roaring Lion[6]
* "Shango Man" (1967), Mighty Sparrow[42][63]
* "Soucouyant" (1985), Crazy[13][30]
* "Sucoyen" (1933), Roaring Lion[6]
* "Three Friends' Advice" - "My Three Friends' Advice" (1937), Lord Executor[5][42][8]
* "Through the Mirror" (1979), Mighty Shadow[71]
* "Trinidad Obeahman" (1929), Lionel Belasco[6]
* "Whap Cocoyea" (2004) Mighty Shadow[33]
* "Who Am I?" (2003), Sugar Aloes[70]
* "Witch Doctor" (1976), Mighty Sparrow[42][10][63]
* "Yoruba Shango" - "Yaraba Shango" (1935), Growling Tiger[5][6][42][23][35]

## Social commentaries - Others

[edit]

* "Accident Policy" (1976) Lord Funny[36]
* "Always Marry a Pretty Woman" (1946), Lord Beginner[27]
* "Better Days" (2018), Aaron Duncan[33]
* "Blaze de Fire" (2005), Bunji Garlin[33]
* "Boyhood Days" (1975), Tradewinds[48]
* "Class Language" (2009), Kizzie Ruiz[33]
* "Dog Better than Man" (1962), Mighty Viper[15]
* "Eat your Cake and Still Have It" (2007), Skatie[33]
* "Exploiting" (1938), Lord Caresser[23][43]
* "Good Time Pioneers" (2005), Brother Mudada[33]
* "I thank Thee" (1978), Calypso Rose[1][47][10][28]
* "More Times" (1979), Black Stalin[2][32]
* "My Landlady" (1952), Lord Kitchener[10][9]
* "No Front Page" (2018), Duane O’Connor[33]
* "Old Lady Walk a Mile" - "Old Lady Walk a Mile and a Half" (1951–1953), Lord Kitchener[13][31]
* "Philantropy" (2021), Crazy[33]
* "Ring de Bell" (1996), Brother Resistance[49]
* "Scratch Meh Back" (2000), Mighty Shadow[33][19]
* "Social Media" (2017), Lady Adana[33]
* "Suzie Jumbie" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Sudan" (2007), Singing Sandra[14][33]
* "That Good, That Bad" - "Dat Good, Dat Bad" (1990), Chalkdust[31]
* "White People’s Bacchanal" (1957), Mighty Viper[16]
* "Woman Woman" (1977), Cro Cro[1]
* "Wrong Name (De)" (2019), Sexy Suzie[33]

## South Africa - Apartheid

[edit]

* "Blood Money" (1986), Commenter[39][48]
* "Free South Africa" (1989), Mighty Shadow
* "Honorary White" (1983), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "How Many More Must Die" - "How Many More" (1986), The Mighty Duke[13][39]
* "Invade South Africa" (1985), Mighty Sparrow[18][10]
* "Isolate South Africa" (1982), Mighty Sparrow[18][39][10][63]
* "Love Cricket Hate Apartheid" (1985), Brother Mudada[48]
* "Madiba" (2014), Singing Sandra
* "South Africa" (1983), Tobago Crusoe[39][13][48]
* "Victory is certain" (1991), David Rudder[13]

## Spirituality / Philosophy

[edit]

* "Ah Living Meh Life" (1962), Mighty Dougla[23]
* "Bring Down the Power" (2010), Ella Andall[70]
* "Clean Heart" (2008), Singing Sandra[14]
* "Death Is Compulsory" (1948), Lord Kitchener[23][9][12]
* "Hands" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "I Will Die a Bachelor" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][57][9][12]
* "If ah Coulda" (2007), Mighty Shadow[14]
* "In Time to come" (2000), Crazy[13][33]
* "In Times" (1995), Black Stalin[13]
* "Journey" (1989), Tambu[13][29]
* "Journey of the Enabler" (2019), Singing Sandra
* "Learn to Laugh" (1984), Chalkdust[14]
* "Life" (1988), Gypsy
* "Life Is a Stage" (1972), Brother Valentino[7][20][34]
* "Lifeline" (1989), Ann Marie Inniss[51]
* "Look at the Bright Side" (1991), Black Stalin[14]
* "Love Thy Neighbour" (1937), Roaring Lion[5][29]
* "Man’s Imagination" (2019), Ronaldo London[33]
* "Never Ever Worry" (1961), Lord Pretender[7][47]
* "Never Hang Your Hat" (1967), Lord Christo[7]
* "People Will Talk" (1962), King Fighter[7][15]
* "Song for the People" (1991), Ella Andall[52]
* "Survival" - "Man Will Survive" (1992), Mighty Sparrow[14][13][28]
* "You Can’t Stop Pleasing People" (1959), Lord Commander[23]

## Sports - Cricket

[edit]

Brian Lara

### Cricket 1920 - 1939

[edit]

* "Barbados and the M.C.C." (1935), Ralph Fitz-Scott[48][23]
* "Bradman" (1930's), Lord Executor[48]
* "Constantine" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini[6][48]
* "Cricketing Stars" (1933), Gerard Clark[48]
* "Intercolonial Cricket" (1929), Lord Inventor[48][6]
* "International Tournament" (1937), Atilla the Hun[48][12]
* "International Cricket Tournament" (1934), Bill Rogers[48][23]
* "Leary Constantine" (1929), Lord Beginner[48][8]
* "M.C.C. and the West Indies (the)" - "M.C.C. and Trinidad (The)" (1935), Lord Beginner[31][23][48]
* "M.C.C. versus the Colony/Trinidad" (1926), Atilla the Hun[8][48]
* "Mickey Cipriani’s Career" - "Mickey Cipriani" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini[6][13][48]
* "Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat" (1932), Wilmoth Houdini[6]

### Cricket 1940 - 1959

[edit]

* "Alec Bedser Calypso" (1953), Lord Kitchener[23][48]
* "All Hail for Constantine" (1940's), Lord Beginner[48]
* "Ashes (The)" - "Australia vs. M.C.C. 1955" (1955), Lord Kitchener[23][48]
* "Australia vs. West Indies" (1952), Lord Beginner[48]
* "Battle of the Century" (1957), Frank Holder[48]
* "Collie Smith" - "Tribute to Collie Smith" (1959), Laurel Aitken[48]
* "Cricket Champions" - "West Indies vs. M.C.C. 1954" (1954), Lord Beginner[48]
* "Cricket Umpires" (1954), Lord Kitchener[23][48]
* "Dem Berbicians" (1950's), King Fighter[48]
* "Denis Compton" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6][48]
* "England Regain the Ashes" (1953), Lord Beginner[48]
* "English Bat and Ball Player (The)" (1951), Mighty Terror[48]
* "John Goddard" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][48]
* "Kitch’s Cricket Calypso" (1948), Lord Kitchener[9][23][48]
* "Learie Constantine" - "The Constantine Calypso" (1954), Cy Grant[48]
* "Ramadin on the Ball" - "We want Ramadin on the Ball" (1951), King Radio[48][23]
* "Ramadin Spin Bowling Anchor" (1953), Mighty Viper[48]
* "Victory Calypso" - "Victory Test Match" - "Cricket, Lovely Cricket" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][66][13][9][22][48][12]
* "West Indians Are Back in Town" (1976), West Indies Touring Team[48]
* "West Indies Test Victory at Lord’s" (1951), Small Island Pride[48]
* "West Indies versus England" (1951), Lord Invader[48]
* "Why the West Indies Lost to Australia" (1952), Lord Pretender[48]

### Cricket 1960 - 1979

[edit]

* "Andy Roberts" - "Tribute to Andy Roberts" (1973), Calypso Franco[48]
* "Bowl Dem Fruity" (1978), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "Clive Lloyd" - "Tribute to Clive Lloyd" (1976), Singing Francine[48]
* "Collie Smith" (1960), Brother Superior[48]
* "Combine Islands" (1975), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "Cricket Champions" (1967), Lord Kitchener[31][48]
* "Cricket Excitement" (1966), Terry Nelson[48]
* "Cricket Song (The)" - "- Bowl Griffith" (1964), Lord Kitchener[31][39][48]
* "Cricket Victory ‘76" (1976), Frank Holder[48]
* "Election Cricket Game" (1976), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "Final Test Decision" (1960's), Count Lasher[48]
* "Garry Sobers" (1971), The Merrymen[48]
* "Gavascar" - "Indian Cricketers" (1972), Lord Relator[7][72][48]
* "Greatest Test Match (The)" (1961), Lord Pretender[48]
* "Kerry Packer (Ah Say Ban Dem)" (1978), Mighty Sparrow[6][39][28][48]
* "Kerry Packer (I Met Sir Frank)" (1978), All Rounders[39][48]
* "Knock Them Down" (1977), Maestro[14][39][28]
* "Learie Constantine" (1971/2), Lord Pretender[48]
* "Mike Findlay" - "Tribute to Mike Findlay" (1969), Becket[48][73]
* "Riot at the Oval (Don’t Doubt me)" (1960), Lord Brynner[48][31]
* "Riot at the Oval (Bacchanal)" (1960), Lord Smiley[48][31]
* "Sir Garfield Sobers" (1966), Mighty Sparrow[18][13][29][48][31]
* "Tribute to Gary Sobers" (1966), Count Lasher[48]
* "Tribute to Sir Frank" (1968), All Rounder[48]
* "V for Victory" (1967), Young Growler[48]
* "Vivi Richards" - "Tribute to Vivi Richards" (1975), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "Vivian Richards" (1976), King Short Shirt[48]
* "Water Lillee" (1976), Lord Kitchener[48]
* "West Indies Cricket Test" (1964), Laurel Aitken[48]
* "Willett" (1974), Mighty Swallow[48]
* "World Cup (Cypher Was Oversea)" (1976), Mighty Cypher[48]
* "World Cup (Phase One)" (1976), Maestro[48]
* "World Cup Champions" (1976), Regeneration Now[48]
* "Worrell’s Captaincy" (1963), Jackie Opel[48]

### Cricket 1980 - 1999

[edit]

* "Beyond a Boundary" (1993), MBA[39][2][48]
* "Blackwash" (1985), Roots Man[39][48]
* "Brian Lara" (1995), Watchman
* "Clive Lloyd" (1985), Lord Have Mercy[48]
* "Combine" (1981), Becket[73][48]
* "Cricket in the Jungle" (1985), Tradewinds[48]
* "Cricket Soca Fever" (1983), Val Mason[48]
* "Cricket Song (The) - Come, Go See the West Indies" (1980), Clayton Davis[48]
* "Four Lara Four" - "Laramania" (1995), Defosto[13][48]
* "Here Come the West Indies" (1994), David Rudder[39][2][48]
* "Legacy" (1995), David Rudder[39][48]
* "Rally 'Round the West Indies" (1988), David Rudder[27][13][39][2][28][48]
* "Reason (The)" (1983), Short Pants[48]
* "Signal to Lara" (1995), Superblue[13][30][48]
* "We are the Champions" (1985), Tradewinds[48]

### Cricket 2000 - 2019

[edit]

* "Cricket is we Ting" (2007), Becket[73][48]
* "Laramania" (2007), Becket[73]
* "Smiling Eyes of Steel" (2000), David Rudder[33][48]

### Cricket 2020 - 2039

[edit]

## Sports - Others

[edit]

* "ATO" - "Ato Boldon" (1996), G.B. (Gregory Ballantyne)
* "Ato’s Gold" (1998), Denyse Plummer[13]
* "Crawfie" - "Crawford" - "Halsey Crawford with a Bullet" (1977), Mighty Sparrow[1][28]
* "Crawford is the Man" - "Halsey Crawford" (1977), Lord Kitchener[13]
* "Fighter" (2006), Maximus Dan[33]
* "Games" (2017), Heather MacIntosh[14][33]
* "Gold" (1976), Maestro[1]
* "Gold Coast Champion" (1950), Lord Beginner[23]
* "Granny" (1986), Natasha Wilson[13]
* "Javelin Jam" (2013), Mistah Shak[33]
* "Joe Louis" (1938), Lord Caresser[23][43][55]
* "Joe Louis Calypso (The)" (1950), Lord Beginner[23][43]
* "Joe Louis Schmelling Fight" (1939), Mighty Growler[31][43][23]
* "Is Only Sports" (1995), Kurt Allen[13]
* "Keep Fit" - "Keep Fit Man" (1983), All Rounder
* "Keshorn" - "Javelin Champion (The)" (2013), Eunice Peters[33]
* "Louis Schmeling Fight" (1937), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion (duet)[23][31][43][6]
* "Mannie Dookie" (1935), Growling Tiger[8][23]
* "Muhammad Ali" (2002), Mr. Calypso
* "Play Ball" (1960), Lord Christo[31][35]
* "Randolph Turpin's Victory" (1951), Lord Kitchener[6]
* "Road to Italy" (1989), Superblue[13]
* "World Cup" (1976), Maestro

## Tabanca / Love / Jealousy

[edit]

"Tabanca, tabanka, tabankca, tobanca (n) (Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad): A painful feeling of unrequited love, from loving someone who does not love in return, especially someone who was once a lover or spouse."[74]

* "After Carnival" (1980), Lord Kitchener[1]
* "Anacoana" (1935), Lord Beginner[23][9][12]
* "Art of Making Love" (1973), Lord Shorty[10][13]
* "Baby" (1924), Sam Manning[12]
* "Bacchanal Lady" (1988), David Rudder[28]
* "Beef and Bone" (1934), Atilla the Hun
* "Brown Boy" (1925), Sam Manning[23][9][12]
* "Camilla (When you Go Please Do Not Come Back)" (1925), Sam Manning[23][10][9][12]
* "Caroline" (1950), Roaring Lion[9][34][14]
* "Come Le We Go Sookie" (1964), King Fighter[7]
* "Come Mama Come" (1929), King Radio[8]
* "Dey Washing Deir Mouth on Me" - "They Washing Mouth on Me" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[10]
* "Doggie Doggie Look Bone" (1932), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion[6][55][8]
* "Doh Back Back" (1984), Mighty Sparrow[13][28][30]
* "Doh Horn Meh" (1980), The Mighty Duke[1]
* "Dorothy" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion[6][8]
* "Dotish Married Man" (1963), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Elsie" (1939), King Radio[8]
* "Everytime I Pass" (1909), Fitzie Bone-Eye[8]
* "Fan Me Saga Boy" (1945), Roaring Lion[5][54]
* "Gloria" (2001), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Going Home Tonight" (1966), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Guadeloupe Chick" (1979), Crazy
* "Jenny" (1981), Lord Nelson
* "Jimpy’s Ingratitude" (1938), Atilla the Hun[23][31]
* "Johnny Take my Wife" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini[23][43]
* "Last Train to San Fernando (The)" - "Last Train" (1950), The Duke of Iron[13][29][9]
* "Love Me Emily" - "Emily" (1939), Atilla the Hun[31][6]
* "Mabel (See What you Do)" (1925), Sam Manning[23][9][12]
* "Madeleine Oy" (1953), Vivian Comma[30]
* "Malic Wedding Scandal" (1962), King Solomon[23]
* "Marajhin" (1981), Mighty Sparrow[5][21][10][28]
* "Marajhin Sister" (1983), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Margarita" (1983), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Maria" (1962), Lord Blakie[7][13][35][30]
* "Marian Le’ Go me Man" (1935), Keskidee Trio[12]
* "Martiniquan" - "Martinquen" (1937), Atilla the Hun[23][8]
* "Matilda" (1938), King Radio[7][6][19][1][15][24][10][8][35][30][44][12]
* "My Girl Mabel" (1941), King Radio[4]
* "My Indian Girl Love" (1939), Lord Executor[55][23][21]
* "My Little West Indian Girl" (1924), Sam Manning[12]
* "Neighbour Neighbour" (1981), Eddy Grant[10]
* "No Nora Darling" - "Nora" - "Nora Darling" (1937), Roaring Lion[6][30]
* "No Woman No" (1986), Black Stalin[2]
* "Raja Rani" (1986), Baron[21]
* "Romeo" (1057), Lord Melody[34][23]
* "Rose" (1961), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Roti & Dhalpouri" (1989), Sugar Aloes[21]
* "Rum Till I Die" (2003), Adesh Samaroo
* "Same Time Same Place" (1973), Mighty Sparrow[1][47]
* "Senorita Panchita" (1939), Growling Tiger[5]
* "Stella" (1963), Lord Nelson[31]
* "Stop Coming and Come" (1931), Wilmoth Houdini[12]
* "Sugar Bum Bum" (1978), Lord Kitchener[14][5][28]
* "Sweet Willie" (1925), Sam Manning[23][9][12]
* "Tabanca" (2000), Denyse Plummer[33]
* "Take Your Bundle and Go" (1962), Mighty Sparrow[1]
* "Tan Tan" (1990), Mighty Shadow[35]
* "Tell Me Why" (2013), Baron[14]
* "Trust Yu Wife" (1985), The Mighty Duke[36]
* "Wastin’ your Time" - "You Wasting your Time" (1960), Mighty Power[36][23]
* "Way Way Out" (1999), Mighty Shadow
* "Wood in de Fire" (1959), Mighty Sparrow[35]
* "Young Girl’s Touch" (1935), Atilla the Hun & Lord Beginner[8][12]

## War - Up to end of World War II

[edit]

* "Admiral Graf Spee (The)" (1940), Atilla the Hun[6][8]
* "Adolf Hitler" (1941), Mighty Destroyer[6][16]
* "Advantage Mussolini" (1936), Roaring Lion[4][10][17]
* "Air Raid Shelters" (1943), King Radio[6][8]
* "Argos Papers" (1918), Lord Inventor[8][4][6]
* "Black Market" (1945), Lord Beginner[23][12]
* "Boer War" (1900), Duke of Marlborough[8][16][63]
* "Britain Will Never Surrender" (1941), Mighty Growler[23][8]
* "Carnival Again" (1939), Lord Executor[6]
* "Chamberlain Says Peace" (1938), Lord Beginner[4][6]
* "Chinese Never Had a V.J. Day" - "Lay Fung Lee" - "Chinese Calypso" - "Chinese Memorial" - "Lai Fook Lee" (1948), Lord Kitchener[5][6][13][35][9][12]
* "Civil War in Spain" (1938), Growling Tiger[5][43]
* "Ethiopian War Drums" (1935), Wilmoth Houdini[6][4][10]
* "Fall of France" (1941), Mighty Growler[4][6][35]
* "Farmer and Breadfruit Tree" (1943), Mighty Growler[4][43][8]
* "Germany Invade Poland" (1939), King Radio[6]
* "Gold of Africa (The)" (1935), Growling Tiger[4][6][38][63][8][35][12]
* "Hitler" (1939), Lord Ziegfield[23]
* "Hitler Demanded Trinidad" (1940), Lord Invader[23][31]
* "Hitler Demands" (1939), Mighty Growler[4]
* "Hitler’s Attitude" (1940), Roaring Lion[23][31]
* "Hitler's Mistake" (1940), Roaring Lion[23][31]
* "Hitler’s Moustache" (1941), Lord Invader[23][31]
* "Horrors of War (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun[4][25][8][43]
* "Housewives" (1950), Lord Beginner[6][57][9][12]
* 'How Hitler Invaded Poland' (1939), Lord Ziegfield[35][14]
* "Invasion of Britain" (1941), Atilla the Hun[4][6][8]
* "Invasion of Poland (The)" - "Poland, Poland" (1940), Roaring Lion[31][4]
* "Kaiser William, Run your Run" (1918), Lord Inventor[4][35][6]
* "Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years" - "Let the White People Fight" (1939), Growling Tiger[6][8]
* "Nazi Spy Ring" (1940), Mighty Growler[23]
* "Norah the War Is Over" (1946), Lord Beginner[6]
* "Ode to Russia" (1944), Atilla the Hun[8][4]
* "Poppy Day" (1938), Lord Executor[4]
* "Red Cross Society (The)" (1941), Atilla the Hun[6][25]
* "Reply to Englishman" (1944), Atilla the Hun[4][54][8]
* "Rise of the British Empire" (1940), Roaring Lion[35][14]
* "Roosevelt’s Election" (1941), Atilla the Hun[6][25]
* "Run Your Run Hitler" (1940), Lord Beginner[6][35][8][30]
* "Sauerkraut Calypso" (1956), Herbert Howard[5][23]
* "Selassie Is Held by the Police" (1937), Lord Caresser[4]
* "Send Hitler to St. Helena" (1940), Atilla the Hun[23][31]
* "Two Bad Men in the World" (1939), Lord Executor[6][23]
* "Warning to Russia (A)" (1950), Mighty Viking[23][4]
* "Winston Churchill" (1941), Roaring Lion[6]

## Wars - Post World War II

[edit]

* "Children World" (1987), Chalkdust[14]
* "Chinese Love Affair" (1970), Mighty Sparrow[5]
* "Hydrogen Bomb (The)" (1954), Mighty Terror[23][4][9]
* "My Lai Incident (The)" (1970), The Shah[4]
* "Peace in de World" (1987), Black Stalin
* "Send Me Instead" (1968), King Fighter[4]
* "Stop D War" (2008), Singing Sandra
* "War Mongers" (1988), Johnny King[13][33]

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* Guilbault, Jocelyne (2007). Governing sound : The cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-31059-6. OCLC 74029379.
* Hill, Donald R. (1993). Calypso calaloo : Early carnival music in Trinidad. Gainesville. ISBN 0-8130-1221-X. OCLC 27727033.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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* Liverpool, Hollis (1986). Kaiso and society. Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V.I.: Virgin Islands Commission on Youth. OCLC 19282261.
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* Paquet, Sandra Pouchet; Patricia Joan Saunders; Stephen Stuempfle (2007). Music, memory, resistance : Calypso and the Caribbean literary imagination. Kingston, Jamaica. ISBN 978-976-637-290-3. OCLC 173808219.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Quevedo, Raymond (Atilla the Hun) (1983). Attila's kaiso: A short history of Trinidad Calypso. St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies: University of the West Indies, Dept. of Extra Mural Studies.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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* Rudder, David; La Rose, John (1990). Kaiso calypso music : David Rudder in conversation with John La Rose. London: New Beacon Books. ISBN 1-873201-00-1. OCLC 24849319.
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* Aho, W. R. "The treatment of women in Trinidad's calypsoes, 1969–1979". Sex Roles 10, 141–148 (1984).
* Austin, Roy. "Understanding Calypso Content: A Critique and an Alternative Explanation". Caribbean Quarterly 22, no. 2/3 (1976): 74–83.
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* Best, Earl. "What’s in a Name-Pt2: Black Power, Calypso, Soca and Pumpkin Vine.", Wired 868.
* Biswas, Soutik. "Calypso’s love affair with cricket". BBC News, 2007, 17/3 154–159
* Borgerson, Janet & Jonathan, Schroeder. "Calypso confusion", The MIT PRESS Reader.
* Bowles, Paul. "Calypso - Music of the Antilles". Modern Music, 1940, 17/3 154–159
* Brown Boy in the ring. "Carnival culture: Lord Kitchener to Machel Montano". March 22, 2007
* Brown, Helen. "I am here to tell women, don<t be afraid" Independent, UK edition, 6 April 2020.
* Dowrich-Phillips, Laura. "7 calypsoes that kept us entertained with hot topics of the day".
* Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. Hodge, Nnamdi. "Patois in calypso". Montray Créyol, 2015.
* Jacob, Debbie. "What calypso means to the Caribbean" Caribbean Beat Magazine, January 2011.
* Khan, Nasser. "To federate or not to federate.".Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 2012.
* Ramm,Benjamin. "The subversive power of calypso music" BBC Culture, October 11, 2017.
* Rohlehr,Gordon. "A scuffling of Islands: The dream and reality of Caribbean unity in poetry and song - Roseau to Montego Bay", The Integrationist Caribbean, 2007.
* Unknown. "'16 great calypso songs for teaching", Study Assistant .
* Unknown. "'A chronology of selected songs by Mighty Sparrow that address social, political and topical themes".
* Unknown. "Celebrating our Calypso monarchs 1939–1980 T&T - History through the eyes of calypso". Trinidad & Tobago government, 2015/07.
* Unknown. "The golden age of Calypso". Musical Traditions, number 4, 1985.

### Audio

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* 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.
* Melody vs. Sparrow - A friendly calypso feud (CD). Erasmus Black Records. 19 June 2020.

## External links

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* Calypso Monarchs Hall of Fame
* Calypsography
* Calypsonians 1900 - 2018
* Top 100 Calypsos of the 20th Century
* Trinidad & Tobago Calypsonians