Cocoa Tea - Stay In School (2015)

Brand new single for Cocoa Tea! "Stay in school" is released by Roaring Lion Records. "Please support the message to the kids to #StayinSchool, and buy this song on iTunes! All proceeds will be donated to the Jamaica Scholarship Fund. Thanks for your help!" Cocoa Tea.




 

 

Released by:
Roaring Lion Records

Riddim by Kirk ‘Kirkledove’ Bennett.

 Cocoa Tea - Stay In School (2015)

LYRICS

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Mothers want to hear their little son them sing! Sing!

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Father's want to hear their little daughter them sing! Sing!

Stay In School, and don't you ever play a fool
I said to Stay In School

Education is the key
To take your rightful place in this society

So Stay In School, Education a your tool
I said to Stay In School!

The world is in your hand,
and you're the leaders of the next generation
If you're to be efficient,
then you must have a good Education
For you to be independent,
then you've got to make a proper preparation

So Stay In School,
I said to Stay In School

You're too young to be going to a party
Don't skull school, me say that's very naughty
Stay In School, never be a fool

I said to Stay In School

Cause it's a technology driven world,
Talking to the boys and the little girls
We love to see you with your backpack,
We want to know you've got your computer thing lock
Children look so pretty in their uniform,
Math, and Science, and English a that a gwan

Stay In School, Education a your tool
I said to Stay In School

Mothers and Fathers, counsel you children
No time for boyfriend, no time for girlfriend

Stay In School, and don't you ever play a fool
I said to Stay In School

Child abuse has become a big problem!
Parents come together, that's the only way to solve them

Stay In School, don't you ever play a fool
I said to Stay In School

If you're to make the track team,
45% average you're gonna need
Don't need another innocent mouth to go feed,
So you better learn how to write and read
Failure is not an option!

The world is in your hand,
and you're the leaders of the next generation
If you're to be efficient,
then you must have a good Education
For you to be independent,
then you've got to make a proper preparation

Stay In School
cause Education a your tool
I said to Stay In School

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Father's want to hear their little daughter them sing! Sing!

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Mothers love to hear their little son them sing! Stay In School!

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Mothers want to hear their little son them sing! Sing!

Ting a linga ling, school bell ring
Father's want to hear their little daughter them sing!

 

#Roots #Reggae #CocoaTea #Jamaica #BrandNew #StayinSchool

About the Author

Cocoa Tea

Cocoa Tea

Cocoa Tea was one of the few early dancehall stars to carve out a consistent, productive career as the genre evolved over the years. His cool-toned, laid-back vocals were perfect for sweet, smooth lovers rock, and gave him a distinct identity amid his more aggressive peers. Still, he was also capable of toughening up his sound on his cultural protest material, which was often sharply perceptive. Tea was born Calvin Scott on September 3, 1959, in Rocky Point, a small town in Jamaica’s Clarendon parish. He sang in his church and school choirs as a youth, and made his first recordings for producer Willie Francis in 1974 at the mere age of 14; one single, “Searching in the Hills,” was released under his given name, but went nowhere. He spent the next few years working as a racehorse jockey, then as a fisherman; during the latter occupation, he began to rediscover his musical ambitions, performing with the traveling sound systems that passed through local dancehalls.

In 1983, he moved to Kingston and adopted the performing name Cocoa Tea, after the Jamaican term for hot chocolate (later alternate spellings would include Coco Tea and Coco T). He soon met top dancehall producer Henry “Junjo” Lawes, and recorded a series of hit singles that included “Rocking Dolly,” “I Lost My Sonia,” “Informer,” and “Can’t Stop Cocoa Tea.” His first album, Weh Dem a Go Do…Can’t Stop Coco Tea, was released in 1985 and compiled many of his previous successes (a slightly different version, Rocking Dolly, was later issued in the U.S.). Lawes moved his operation to New York, and King Jammy became Tea’s primary producer just as he was beginning to expand his focus to Rastafarian lyrical themes. The results included two albums, 1986’s The Marshall and 1987’s Come Again, and hit singles in those two title tracks, “Tune In,” and “Settle Down,” among others.

In 1989, a supergroup featuring Tea, Shabba Ranks, and Home T recorded together under the auspices of both King Jammy and Gussie Clarke. The resulting album, Holding On, was a major hit in Jamaica, as were the singles “Pirates Anthem” and “Who She Love.” Still an extremely viable solo artist, Tea recorded the biggest socially conscious hit of his career to date, “Riker’s Island,” in 1991, and supported it with an album of the same name. His strident anti-Gulf War commentaries “Oil Ting” and “No Blood for Oil” were banned on radio in Jamaica and the U.K.; the latter was included on a second supergroup album, Another One for the Road, for which Cutty Ranks replaced Shabba. Tea’s next major solo hit was the lovers rock tune “Good Life,” produced by Philip “Fatis” Burrell. He was able to maintain a steady, solid level of popularity into the late ’90s, with hits for Burrell (1996’s “Israel King,” 1997’s King Sporty cover “I’m Not a King”) and Bobby “Digital” Dixon (1995’s “Holy Mount Zion”), plus a collaboration with Cutty Ranks on the 1997 Bob Marley cover “Waiting in Vain.” Much of his mid-’90s material was collected on Holy Mount Zion, which was released in 1997 by the legendary Motown label. Further albums included 1998’s One Way and 2001’s Feel the Power.

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