Wow!! I remember hearing this at parties when I was little. At 50 I only just find out he's talking about something else. I thought the man just love him saltfish 😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
It was the same with me and Dr. Kitch. I asked my mother why the lady was so afraid of getting the injection and she just smiled! Later on I found out what "THE NEEDLE" meant!!! Wahahahaaaa!!!
@Botanical Daughter, wait what?! I grew up with my parents playing this song. I love this song. I still know the words. He's singing about something else?! 🤭🤦🏾♀️
I listen to MR SPARROW growing up in 64 village while i was attending new market anglican primary school. He is my life long memory lane. Still going strong.
FISH Luke 5:2-11 I just found myself singing ‘Salt Fish’ by the Mighty Sparrow. This Calypso song was a hit when I was in Prep school and me and my then best friend Christopher use to sing it a lot. I never knew the sexual innuendo behind the song. Now that I think about it, he used to laugh a lot harder than I did when we sang it for our classmates, horns and all. Fish in Jamaica is now a slang for gays. In our innocence under the Almighty, the purity of being fishers of wo/men is a task not to be tainted by innuendo or fears of what others think. The sacred sign of the Saviour reminds us of the joy in JESUS.
When I was small, he used to perform at the Banana Boat Club in Mo Bay, my mom and her friends used to dress beautifully and I always wish I was big enough to go with them, great memories memories! 🥳💥💥🤣
The mighty Sparrow , the original and still the best😁🎶🎶😁😁...everything he said about the saltedCodfish is true: expensive, versatile, sweet esp if you're drinking rum, the center bone nice, goes with any grees, ackee, stew and it's a part of my national dish...😄😄🎶🎼🎼
Unlike some of the calypso from my country, at least Sparrow made an effort to mask the meaning in veiled double entendres that made grown ups chuckle and wink. Sparrow could teach the master class in calypso.
OH GAD OYYY. EYE REL DEAD!!. 😂😂😂😂 Listen this song na. It took my granny passing on the 6th for me to REALLY stop and hear these words. All she use to do was dance, but not listen to the words. Lord
ran into this song while preparing for an exam...had no idea it wasnt just about the mere "saltfish" dwl....didnt kno this badness was goin on frm these days
When I was a child I actually thought he was singing about the dish, saltfish. How innocent I was. Perhaps thats why my parents ignored me when I sung along.
Almost everything Sparrow sang had strong sexual double meaning.My mother would play his stuff when I was eight years old and up.She thought I did not understand but man I got an education on Sparrow.
Calypsonian the Mighty ( Slinger Franciscus) Sparrow was the greatest lover of saltfish. It is naughty. 😊 Lyrics of Saltfish by Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Franciscus) Saltfish stew is what I like So doo-doo, give me day and night I like you food, so don′t find me rude My favorite, I sure every man in here already eat it Saltfish Nothing in the world sweeter than Saltfish English, colloquial, Bajans Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet Very well, I like the taste Though the smell, sometimes out of place It hard to take, but make no mistake I want you to know, it′s because it extra sweet it smelling so boy it's Saltfish Big money does run behind it Saltfish Man does lick down man to find it Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet Some like it hot, some like it cold No matter what, I take it young or old When it serve with wine, man does stew it fine Put no pepper, the bone in the centre does be sweet like sugar Saltfish Some men does get drunk to taste it Saltfish Some does go and hide to face it Saltfish It′s sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet I would die a happy man If I close me eye, with piece in me hand Bury me in the cemetery Any money, put a saltfish picture on me tombstone saying Saltfish Sparrow was it′s greatest lover Saltfish He even adored the odor Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet Writer(s): Slinger Francisco, Winsford Devine
I heard Saltfish in St. Lucia the first time and had a Tape of it made in a music store, that´s how they do it in the Caribbean. The guy told me the real meaning of the Lyrics and I laught so hard I almost peed myself.
Trinidad is noted for the Best Salt fish recipe in the World. Salt Fish Buljol with Zaboka ( Avocado) and Olive oil with lots of onions and pepper in Hops Bread or Sada Roti with a cup of Tea. Yer good to go once yer taste that. Is that sweet Salt Fish of our T+T women that have us T+T men on Top all the Time.
Saltfish stew is what I like So doo-doo, give me day and night I like you food, so don't find me rude My favorite, I sure every man in here already eat it Saltfish Nothing in the world sweeter than Saltfish English cod or the hard Barbadian Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet Very well, I like the taste Though the smell, sometimes out of place It hard to take, but make no mistake I want you to know, it's because it extra sweet it smelling so boy it's Saltfish Big money does run behind it Saltfish Man does lick down man to find it Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet Some like it hot, some like it cold No matter what, I take it young or old When it serve with wine, man does stew it fine Put no pepper, the bone in the centre does be sweet like sugar Saltfish Some men does get drunk to taste it Saltfish Some does go and hide to face it Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet I would die, a happy man If I close me eye, with piece in me hand Bury me, in the cemetery In the mornin', put a saltfish picture on me tombstone saying Saltfish Sparrow was it's greatest lover Saltfish He even adored the odor Saltfish It's sweeter than meat When you want to eat All saltfish sweet
Wow!! I remember hearing this at parties when I was little. At 50 I only just find out he's talking about something else. I thought the man just love him saltfish 😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
It was the same with me and Dr. Kitch. I asked my mother why the lady was so afraid of getting the injection and she just smiled! Later on I found out what "THE NEEDLE" meant!!! Wahahahaaaa!!!
dwl
LOL!
@@raoulsimons1900 nooo 😅😅😅😅😅😅
@Botanical Daughter, wait what?! I grew up with my parents playing this song. I love this song. I still know the words. He's singing about something else?! 🤭🤦🏾♀️
I listen to MR SPARROW growing up in 64 village while i was attending new market anglican primary school. He is my life long memory lane. Still going strong.
" I would die a happy man, If I close me eye wid piece in me hand..." 😂😂😂😂 absolute truth..
Takes me back to my first trip to Barbados in the 70s....this was playing everywhere. Memories
You so crazy
Travis Ali Lol 😂 Also saw Sparrow live in Trinidad - was dancing 💃 just a couple feet away under the stars - awesome!
I used to sing it too......never let my mom or grand ma hear though!
RIP " sir p" ( father) still have ur 8 track tapes u grew me up on god bless u
This song never get old
One the best in soca music str8 from Grenada Mighty Sparrow...Trini treated him well but Greenz we born n bred him lol...GREEENZTIL IT ENDZZ
Nobody could top Sparrow for this one! :D
Johnathan M legit smartass
FISH Luke 5:2-11
I just found myself singing ‘Salt Fish’ by the Mighty Sparrow. This Calypso song was a hit when I was in Prep school and me and my then best friend Christopher use to sing it a lot. I never knew the sexual innuendo behind the song. Now that I think about it, he used to laugh a lot harder than I did when we sang it for our classmates, horns and all. Fish in Jamaica is now a slang for gays. In our innocence under the Almighty, the purity of being fishers of wo/men is a task not to be tainted by innuendo or fears of what others think. The sacred sign of the Saviour reminds us of the joy in JESUS.
"Sparrow was its greatest lover."LOL!!!
When I was small, he used to perform at the Banana Boat Club in Mo Bay, my mom and her friends used to dress beautifully and I always wish I was big enough to go with them, great memories memories! 🥳💥💥🤣
Beside Paladium
@@peterhall6460 Locally known as 'Palla', great u remember too! 😇
He's not talking bout food, brother. Lol
"When you out to eat, all saltfish sweet!"
The mighty Sparrow , the original and still the best😁🎶🎶😁😁...everything he said about the saltedCodfish is true: expensive, versatile, sweet esp if you're drinking rum, the center bone nice, goes with any grees, ackee, stew and it's a part of my national dish...😄😄🎶🎼🎼
All Jamaicans stand up!!🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The KING lives on!!!!
Big up Sparrow King of salt fish and calypso...Live long and Rastafari bless you always Sir..Get well soon...Ron Muschette..2013
Sparrow is definitely the Mighty one. This is a classic calypso tune. Brings back so many, many memories......hehehehe.
Unlike some of the calypso from my country, at least Sparrow made an effort to mask the meaning in veiled double entendres that made grown ups chuckle and wink. Sparrow could teach the master class in calypso.
Weh yuh from? 😂
But that's how they were in old school calypso/soca used to go
Way you from
Lord have Mercy only West Indians can Understand growing up on this music 🤣🤣🤣
yuh understand 🤣🤣🤣🤣 living in england this is what does keep me going!
Ain't that the truth! Lmfaooooo
I’m a Puerto Rican man from the Bronx and I guess hats truth :) my step pop was /is from the West Indies 🥰
LOL!
this is the chuune when u wake up in deh marnin. respects from Guyana
Lmao@this hmm How u like it's?
Kirl Q ill eat the slatfish all day as long as she shaves down there lol
Well it must be shaven duuuh
Hah! I remember de first time I see Sparrow sing dis live in concert...ah never blush so much! Dat man mouth!
OH GAD OYYY. EYE REL DEAD!!. 😂😂😂😂
Listen this song na. It took my granny passing on the 6th for me to REALLY stop and hear these words. All she use to do was dance, but not listen to the words. Lord
Love the song, the fish only in a cake; could have been my father favorite.
Excellent songs for listening.
The best of the best (well it's Sparrow one of the best of the very best)
ran into this song while preparing for an exam...had no idea it wasnt just about the mere "saltfish" dwl....didnt kno this badness was goin on frm these days
The wetting back then was more intense yes them old people wasn't easy.
lol
It just wasn't as raw as now.
yh for real
Jahmica Clarke hay bod must calypsos are old lamaric
hahaha this song jacked up dread man.
all saltfish sweet. hahahahah
luv it
All Salt fish sweet DWL😁👍
And Shabba Ranks say, 'It can't dun'!🤣🤣
Why did I get 10 seconds from the end before I realized what he was singing about 😅😅😅🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
This was my mom favorite song as a kid missing her like crazy
LOL i grew up listening to MIghty Sparrow... and yes it is dirtier than you think ;)
Classy song & those lyrics sweet like saltfish.
Im so glad i came across this song! its so nice to my ears, and funny too :)
man outstanding
a fave - fantastic...
When I heard it as a kid 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
When I heard this as an adult 😮😂💃🏾
All this time, I thought it was about food.
It is!!💥🤣🤣
A carribean guy that knows my dad, gave him a tape with soca music on it years ago. He would play this song all the time when he was drunk
English but in Canada 1967 I too grew up on this music
I'm german and I love trinidadian food ♥:-)))) Saltfish and Cassava !!!!!!!!! ♥
This is not about saltfish
I love it
In my part of Africa we call it KOOBI and its just boom . What an evergreen song!
lol... now I thought reggea was raw, but when I hear calypso... they don't hide anything! lol
100 % classic
As a child I thought he was talking about saltfish
Listening 2018
Listening this and my head bobbing like crazy😆😆😆 2018
thanks for your vidoes primrosethey are nice
When I was a child I actually thought he was singing about the dish, saltfish. How innocent I was. Perhaps thats why my parents ignored me when I sung along.
lmao so great!
I now know why my mother blaze my ass when I was singing this song as a little boy!
@DIESELBROWNBOY hahahahahaaaaaaa Trini's are the only people i know that talk about sex in almost every song. lol
The Birdie at his inimitable best.
Almost everything Sparrow sang had strong sexual double meaning.My mother would play his stuff when I was eight years old and up.She thought I did not understand but man I got an education on Sparrow.
I got a good slap for singing this one when I was a kid :)
As you should have! 😂
Calypsonians hav the best play on words even 2day but that's wat calypso is all about
Calypsonian the Mighty ( Slinger Franciscus) Sparrow was the greatest lover of saltfish. It is naughty. 😊
Lyrics of Saltfish by Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Franciscus)
Saltfish stew is what I like
So doo-doo, give me day and night
I like you food, so don′t find me rude
My favorite, I sure every man in here already eat it
Saltfish
Nothing in the world sweeter than
Saltfish
English, colloquial, Bajans
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Very well, I like the taste
Though the smell, sometimes out of place
It hard to take, but make no
mistake
I want you to know,
it′s because it extra sweet it smelling so boy it's
Saltfish
Big money does run behind it
Saltfish
Man does lick down man to find it
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Some like it hot, some like it cold
No matter what, I take it young or old
When it serve with wine, man does stew it fine
Put no pepper, the bone in the centre does be sweet like sugar
Saltfish
Some men does get drunk to taste it
Saltfish
Some does go and hide to face it
Saltfish
It′s sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
I would die a happy man
If I close me eye, with piece in me hand
Bury me in the cemetery
Any money, put a saltfish picture on me tombstone saying
Saltfish
Sparrow was it′s greatest lover
Saltfish
He even adored the odor
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Writer(s): Slinger Francisco, Winsford Devine
I heard Saltfish in St. Lucia the first time and had a Tape of it made in a music store, that´s how they do it in the Caribbean. The guy told me the real meaning of the Lyrics and I laught so hard I almost peed myself.
A guess da man does luv he saltfish.LOL!
English Cod or Local Bajan...when ya out to eat all Saltfish sweet.... end of story!
laopet
Barbara-Anne Look Lo inky
😂😂
the greatest! of all
man best friend SaltFish oooooooh wat ah taste
even tho they might not admit it......;)
🔥🔥🔥
Need some eeeh
omg i have just realised what he was talkin bout
Big chune! Not all saltfish sweet, tho. Some of dem sour. Lol!
Hehehehe me nd my mom jammin to this :p
could be cat he talk 'pon, but me know plenty peeple love de saltfish too.
Psalms 91 for all of clarendon. God save the queen. C://edit
:....de bone in de centre.... wow no one like Sparrow.
Blimey...you are bold.
listening in 2018
AH LUV TRINI!
Trinidad is noted for the Best Salt fish recipe in the World. Salt Fish Buljol with Zaboka ( Avocado) and Olive oil with lots of onions and pepper in Hops Bread or Sada Roti with a cup of Tea. Yer good to go once yer taste that. Is that sweet Salt Fish of our T+T women that have us T+T men on Top all the Time.
R.i.p man. Glad I got to hear u in your living days.
Da Mighty Sparrow is alive, lassie.
2022 still I EAT
#Facts ✌🏾
Gosh man😘🙌😎
All saltfish sweet omg
ALL SWEET
I eat it and I like it
listening this in 2014
Gl
2016
2017
2021 ... 3AM est ;)
@greengreen4lyfe This is very true!
@ijusdredful thats a gut buster. hahaha
I gon take it with some wine.... young or old
l'm from Martinique and style of Trinidad is mine
apparently one person's saltfish is sour
he's literally talking about saltfish. yummy.
Sparrow right eh - sal fish sweet too bad.
niceeeeee
sweet
Saltfish stew is what I like
So doo-doo, give me day and night
I like you food, so don't find me rude
My favorite, I sure every man in here already eat it
Saltfish
Nothing in the world sweeter than
Saltfish
English cod or the hard Barbadian
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Very well, I like the taste
Though the smell, sometimes out of place
It hard to take, but make no mistake
I want you to know, it's because it extra sweet it smelling so boy it's
Saltfish
Big money does run behind it
Saltfish
Man does lick down man to find it
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Some like it hot, some like it cold
No matter what, I take it young or old
When it serve with wine, man does stew it fine
Put no pepper, the bone in the centre does be sweet like sugar
Saltfish
Some men does get drunk to taste it
Saltfish
Some does go and hide to face it
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
I would die, a happy man
If I close me eye, with piece in me hand
Bury me, in the cemetery
In the mornin', put a saltfish picture on me tombstone saying
Saltfish
Sparrow was it's greatest lover
Saltfish
He even adored the odor
Saltfish
It's sweeter than meat
When you want to eat
All saltfish sweet
Running this gold tonight?
this is a playas anthem. lol
😍😍😍😍😍😍
Ackee and salt fish yah
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