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Sunday 31st January 2010

Spirit is back!

One of our favourite contributors Tony Tame is back in Spirit with his observations on the crash of AA331.

Tony told the Priory Website "I wrote it because my daughter, Stephanie, suggested that the whole episode sounded like a song that Lloyd Lovindeer, the political commentator/singer could render. I am thinking of giving it to him. Hope the patois is not too strong – it is hard to write patois successfully because it is really a ‘spoken’ language. People disagree with me about this, but I find it easier to read patios aloud to ‘get’ it at its best."

Tony Tame

The tuff Jamaican Passenger Lands at Night on AA331

Tony Tame

Me was a man on flight three three one
when de plane drop down me bawl out "sometin’ wrong!"
It tek up a skid an the brakes mussa fail,
or the tire cudda puncture from some old nail.

We reach right to de sea, me nearly haffi swim,
but me jump out pon ground - only scrape-up me shin.
Air Jamaica lan a night an nevva do me dis way,
If you tek American plane mek sure dem lan inna day.

Me go back out dere jus to look at the wreck,
me dyam lucky seh me nevea bruk me neck.
Cause the plane bruk fe him own. Go out dere and see.
Wing pop off, big tail bus; look like plane not tuff like me!