Da Cocoa Tea
Cocoa tea is a popular beverage in the Caribbean. It's made from grated pure chocolate balls cooked for 5 minutes in boiling water with sugar and condensed milk (or evaporated milk). It's flavored with cinnamon, vanilla, bay leaf, nutmeg and a pinch of salt. Then it's strained. There are variants to the recipe according to the island and the person making it.
Da Cocoa Tea
That Cocoa Tea
Folk Song
Folk Song
(English Dialect)
(English)
(Chorus)
Da cocoa tea is a poison to me,
Ev'ry time I drink it,
I don't know where I be.
If you want to find me
You gotta look for me,
For she got muh head up-sided down
Wid a cup o' da cocoa tea.
I was once engaged to a lady,
Her love was all for me
No matter the distance she did live
I was no trouble to me.
But another girl she did love me
An tek me away from she
An' the only t'ing dat bring me back
Was a cup o' da cocoa tea.
(Chorus)
And den I went to the doctor
To find what de matter with me
He had me well examined
An' then he said to me,
"Have you ever lived with a woman?
My man never hide it from me
For the woman has had a mixture made up
An' gih yuh in cocoa tea."
(Chorus)
"Well then my dear good doctor
What will become of me?'
"Why did you keep so far
An didn't come to me?
In the end you'll reach the graveyard
Prepare what hour it be.
So give all men the caution
Beware of cocoa tea"
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
That cocoa tea is a poison to me,
Every time I drink it,
I don't know where I'll be.
If you want to find me
You gotta look for me,
For she got my head upside-down
With a cup of that cocoa tea.
I was once engaged to a lady,
Her love was all for me
No matter the distance she did live
It was no trouble to me.
But another girl she did love me
And take me away from her,
And the only thing that brought me back
Was a cup of that cocoa tea.
(Chorus)
And then I went to the doctor
To find what was the matter with me,
He had me well-examined
And then he said to me,
"Have you ever lived with a woman?
My man never hide it from me,
For the woman has had a mixture made up
And gives you it in cocoa tea."
(Chorus)
"Well then my dear good doctor
What will become of me?"
"Why did you keep so far away
And didn't come to me?
In the end you'll reach the graveyard,
Prepare what hour it will be.
So give all men the caution:
Beware of cocoa tea."
(Chorus)
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