![]() Given Jamaica and its conditions and the budget he had to work with, I think he did very well, especially now that it has been restored. I do not agree, however, with your assessment that the film is “amateurishly unwatchable.” Sure there are some moments that are amateurish, but so what. We had exchanged emails and had contact info for him but can’t find it. Thanks very much for this, which I stumbled across in the process of trying to find Ken Bilby. In the “youth man slang” of the time, “payaaka” was a verb, meaning “to take away another man’s woman/girlfriend.” In this “slang,” “saaka” meant “to fuck.” So the song’s intro meant, “go and take away a next man’s girl, grab her and then go have sex with her.” “Forward and payaaka, manhangle (manhandle) and den go saaka.” I asked him about this part of the lyrics in “Draw Your Brakes,” and he explained it as follows: He and Scotty sang together as members of The Chosen Few in the 60s. (I had long wondered about it myself.) Last year I interviewed Bunny Brown, a good friend of the late Scotty. It just so happens that I have some info on this, and it’s most likely reliable. Bilby wrote to Patrick who passed the following to me: He, an expert in the structure and use of Jamaican Creole, as linguists call Jamaican Patwa, contacted another expert, Kenneth Bilby, at the time a research associate in the Smithsonian Institution’s department of anthropology. Patrick, Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. I made no such assumption I searched further. Peter PatrickThe album did not include lyrics, and there is no other version of this opaque couplet online (the dozens of lyrics sites all seem to come from one unverified source), so one might assume the above is correct, if unexplained. ![]()
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