Traditional
Another song I got about 40 years ago from a young shipmate, Harold Williams, from South Caicos. I had asked him how folks in the British Virgin Islands felt having their country owned by people so far away who never even saw it, and he said "Oh, we got a song about that." And sang this.
I can't find that I ever wrote it down, even in the logs I kept.
Gordon – Spanish guitar
Small Island, go back where you come from
Small Island, go back where you come from
O when you come by the one and the two and the three
You taking our food and you leaving us hungry
Small Island, go back where you come from
Number one: no rice in this land
Number two: no rice in this land
Now when you come by the one and the two the three
You taking our food and you mash down the jungle
Small Island, go back where you come from
Winston Churchill going 'cross through this English Channel
Winston Churchill going 'cross through this English Channel
Now when you got no guns and got no revolver*
Bottle and stick kicking hell in Gibralter
Small Island, go back where you come from
*refers to a speech Churchill made during WWII
Small Island is recorded on the album Dear To Our Island