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List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences


List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences


The list of calypsos with sociopolitical influences is sectioned by main topics. Calypso music is a worldwide phenomenon.

American presence in Trinidad and Tobago

  • "Base (The)" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Brown Skin Gal" - "Brown Skin Girl" (1933), King Radio
  • "Chagaramas Issue (The)" (1959), Mighty Cypher
  • "Gimme Back Me Dam Kimona" (1951), Mighty Growler
  • "Green Fig" - "Mary, I am Tired and Disgusted" (1942), Lord Kitchener
  • "No Nationality" (1946), Atilla the Hun
  • "Pam Palaam" - "Soldiers and the Mopsies of Pam Palam (The)" (1944), Roaring Lion
  • "Roosevelt in Trinidad" - "FDR in Trinidad" (1936), Atilla the Hun
  • "Rum and Coca-Cola" (1944), Lord Invader
  • "Soldiers Came and Broke Up My Life (The)" (1945), Lord Invader
  • "What You Doing in My Gallery" (1945), Growling Tiger
  • "We Want Back Chagaramas" (1959), Nap Hepburn
  • "Yankee Dollar" (1946), Lord Invader
  • "Yankee Harvest Is Over" (1945), Lord Beginner
  • "Yankee’s Back" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Yankees Gone" - "Jean and Dinah" (1956), Mighty Sparrow
  • "You Can't Tell the Old from the Young" (1955), Lord Beginner

Aspirations / Dreams

  • "Buy Me a Zeppelin" (1945), Macbeth the Great
  • "I Am Going to Buy a Bungalow" (1938), Roaring Lion
  • "I Don’t Want No Bungalow" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "I Want a Radio at Home" (1938), Black Prince
  • "I Want To Build a Bungalow" (1938), Codallo's Top Hatters
  • "I Want to Rent a Bungalow" (1938), Mighty Growler
  • "If I Won a Sweepstake" (1941) - Atilla the Hun

Christmas period

  • "Bring de Scotch for Christmas" (1966), Lord Kitchener
  • "Christmas Coming" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "Christmas Greetings" (1966), Lord Kitchener
  • "Christmas Is a Joyful Day" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Christmas Is Yours, Christmas is mine" (1981), Lord Relator
  • "Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning" (1939), Lord Beginner
  • "Christmas Nice" (1999), Mighty Shadow
  • "Christmas Time is Near" (1961), Lord Creator
  • "Father Christmas" (1966), Lord Kitchener
  • "Father Christmas" (1959), Mighty Spoiler
  • "It’s Christmas" (2009), Baron
  • "It’s Christmas again" (2010), Baron
  • "Jingle Bells Calypso" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Merry Christmas to You" (1961), Lord Creator
  • "Neighbour Oye" (2018), Baron
  • "Oh What a Christmas" (2018), Crazy
  • "Paint Brush (De)" (1993), Kenny J.
  • "Paramin" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Parang Soca" (1979), Crazy
  • "Party for Santa Claus (A)" (1973), Lord Nelson
  • "Santa" - "Miss Santa" (1961), King Solomon
  • "Sip and Chat" (1981), Lord Relator
  • "Something Salt" (1977), Chalkdust

Corruption / Criminality

  • "Ah Digging Horrors" (1975), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ah Doh Rhyme" (2005), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Feeling Shame" (2009), Cro Cro
  • "Ah Not in Dat" (2009), Chalkdust
  • "Angry Land" (2017), Gypsy
  • "Apocalypse" (1981), Delamo
  • "Apology (The)" - "No Apology" (1995), Cro Cro
  • "Baboo Lala" (1938), Roaring Lion
  • "Bad Impression (A)" 1965, Lord Kitchener
  • "Ballad of Gorrie" (1934), Lord Executor
  • "Bandit Factory (The)" (2006), Chalkdust
  • "Bernard" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Black Man Killing Black Man" (1993), Black Stalin
  • "Cat O’Nine Tails" - "Old Time Cat-O-Nine" -"Bring Back the Cat O'Nine Tails" (1959), Lord Invader
  • "Caught in the Whirlwind" (2017), Karene Asche
  • "Cleansing Fire" (2017), Singing Sandra
  • "Cock O’Halloran" (1967), Mighty Clipper
  • "Collateral Damage" (2004), Kizzie Ruiz
  • "Corporal Holder" (1904), Lord Inventor
  • "Corporal Holder" (1904), Pharaoh
  • "Corporal Punishment" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "Corruption in Common Entrance" (1988), Cro Cro
  • "Dis Place Is Nice" - "Trinidad is Nice" (1975), Brother Valentino
  • "Dole Chadee Say" (2000), Cro Cro
  • "Equal Justice" (2006), Singing Sandra
  • "Essence of Love (The)" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Every Shadow" (1985), Scrunter
  • "Face Reality" (2004), Cro Cro
  • "Family Size Coke" (1950), Mighty Sparrow
  • "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (2003), Singing Sandra
  • "Good Citizen" (1971), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ground Zero" (2002), Singing Sandra
  • "Head in the Flower Pot" (1965), Lord Brynner
  • "Hell’s Yard and George Street Conflict" (1936), Growling Tiger
  • "High Cost of Living" (1957), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Hills Thrills (The)" (2015), Shirlane Hendrickson
  • "Honesty" (1966), Mighty Sparrow
  • "How to Stop Delinquency" - "How to Curb Delinquency" (1966), Mighty Leveller
  • "Hunt is On (The)" (2012), Duane O’Connor
  • "Jail Dem" (2002), Cro Cro
  • "Jail Them" (2002), Bally
  • "Jericho" (1978), Lord Kitchener
  • "Justice" (2020), Kurt Allen
  • "Kamla the Greatest" (2011), Crazy
  • "Law Is an Ass (The)" (1979), Short Pants
  • "Licensed Forearm" (1994), Luta
  • "Lip Service" (2017), Rondell Donawa
  • "Look How Trinbago Gone" (2013), All Rounder
  • "Madman’s Rant" (1996), David Rudder
  • "Mano Benjamin" (1964), Mighty Composer
  • "Mirror Mirror" (2005), Skatie
  • "Money" (1980), Black Stalin
  • "Money Eh No Problem" (1978), Lord Shorty
  • "Money is King" (1935), Growling Tiger
  • "Murder Frenzy" (2020), Chalkdust
  • "Nature’s Plan" (1984), Johnny King
  • "No Bacchanal" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Not de Land" (2013), Sugar Aloes
  • "Nothing Ain’t Strange" (1975), Black Stalin
  • "One Day Without a Murder" (2020), Singing Sandra
  • "One to Hang" (1973), Lord Kitchener
  • "Panama" (1988), David Rudder
  • "Peace Seeker" (2015), Sean Daniel
  • "Peddlers" (1958), Lord Melody
  • "Pirates of Paria" - "Pirates in the Gulf of Paria" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Police Doing it Too" (1963), Young Killer
  • "Police Get More Pay" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Policeman" (1936), Young Pretender
  • "Race Track Scandal" (1955), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Run the Gunslingers" (1959), Lord Caruso
  • "Sam P" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Savage" (1987), Carl & Carol Jacobs
  • "Scape Fox (The)" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Shortcut Society" (2001), Chalkdust
  • "Sly Mongoose" (1946), Lord Invader
  • "Sodom & Gomorrah" (1982), Delamo
  • "Stanley Abbott" (1974), Lord Kitchener
  • "Staying Alive" (1987), Black Stalin
  • "Take the Number" (1979), Scrunter
  • "Take Over" (2019), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Tell the Authorities" (2007), Twiggy
  • "Ten Feet Ah Rope" (2003), Heather McIntosh
  • "Ten to One Is Murder" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Thelma Haynes Story" (1957), Lord Melody
  • "Treasury Scandal" (1937), Atilla the Hun
  • "Twenty Years n' Twenty Strokes" (1989), Chalkdust
  • "Unsolved Murders" (1965), Mighty Bomber
  • "We Living in Jail" (1984), Penguin
  • "Western Rodeo" (2002), Gypsy
  • "Who Is in Charge" (1995), Sugar Aloes
  • "Who to Call" (2019), Brian London
  • "Witness" (2001), Brother Resistance
  • "Year of the Child (Shakuntala)" (1979), Cardinal
  • "Year for Love" (2018), Voice

Culture - Calypso / Carnival evolution

  • "A Calypsonian" (2010), Brian London
  • "Ah Put on My Guns Again" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Ancient Rhythm" (2003), Singing Sandra
  • "Bahia Girl" (1986), David Rudder
  • "Banning of Records (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Bomber’s Dream" (1964), Mighty Bomber
  • "Brass Crown" (1957), Lord Superior
  • "Calypso Cricket" (1988), Chalkdust
  • "Calypso Music" (1987), David Rudder
  • "Calypso Rising" (1992), David Rudder
  • "Calypso War" (1958), Mighty Terror
  • "Can’t Buy Extempo" - "Yuh Cyar Buy One" (2009), Contender
  • "Caribbean Spirit" (1988), Gypsy
  • "Carnival Boycott" (1957), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Carnival Road March" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Carnival Is the Answer" (1989), Chalkdust
  • "Category My Donkey" (2004), Devon Seale
  • "Censoring of Calypso Makes Us Glad (The)" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Chalkie the Mailman" (2006), Chalkdust
  • "Chalkie the Teacher" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Champions" (2018), Turner
  • "Chutney Soca" - "Chatnee Soca" (1987), Drupatee
  • "Cultural Controversy" - "Carnival Controversy" (1987), Singing Francine
  • "Culture" (1988), Tambu
  • "D’Blueprint" (2012), Mistah Shak
  • "Dat Eh Good Enough" (2011), Ras Shorty I
  • "Dat Soca Boat" (1979), Mighty Shadow
  • "Dem Judges" (2006), Brother Mutada
  • "Don’t Destroy Calypso Music" (1995), The Mighty Duke
  • "Don’t Stop the Carnival" - "Doh Stop the Carnival" (1939) - Lord Invader
  • "Ducking" (2015), Fadda Fox
  • "Everliving Calypso" (2007), Brother Mudada
  • "Excursion to Grenada" (1938), Roaring Lion
  • "Five Rules of Calypso (The)" (2001), Brother Valentino
  • "Flag Woman" (1976), Lord Kitchener
  • "Guests of Rudy Vallee" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion
  • "Her Majesty" (1978), Calypso Rose
  • "High Mass" (1998), David Rudder
  • "History of Carnival" (1935), Atilla the Hun
  • "How’s Dat" (2012), Chalkdust
  • "How to Sing Calypso" (1982), Chalkdust
  • "How to Win the Crown" (2019), Chalkdust
  • "If the Priest Could Play" (1967), Mighty Cypher
  • "Iron Band (The)" (1945), Atilla the Hun
  • "J’Ouvert Barrio" (1935), Roaring Lion
  • "Jam (De)" (1980), Black Stalin
  • "Juba Doo Bai" - "Juba Dubai" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "Jump and Wave" (1995), Cro Cro
  • "Kaiso Gone Dread" (1991), Black Stalin
  • "Kaiso Kaiso" (2006) - Luta
  • "Kaiso Music" (1996), Black Stalin
  • "Kaiso Power" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Kaiso Sick in the Hospital" (1993), Chalkdust
  • "Land of Calypso" - "Trinidad, the Land of Calypso" (1950), Roaring Lion
  • "Last Jour Ouvert" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Last Year’s Happiness" (1966), Mighty Terror
  • "Long Live Calypso" (1973), Lord Superior
  • "Love Yuh Own" (1991), Ella Andall
  • "Man Want to Dance" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Mas" (1965), Lord Melody
  • "Mecca (The)" (1987), Brother Mudada
  • "Meet Superblue" (2009), Fay-Ann Lyons
  • "Message to George Weeks" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Misconceptions" (1993), Chalkdust
  • "Mr. Bissessar" (1988), Drupatee
  • "My Purpose" (2019), Brian London
  • "No Entry" (2020), Maria Bhola
  • "No Part Time Lover" (1986), Black Stalin
  • "Nobody Cares" - "They Don't Care About We" (2001), Black Stalin
  • "No Smut for Me" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Old Time Calypso" (1998), Lord Kitchener
  • "One for the Savannah" (1992), Chalkdust
  • "One More Officer" (1989), David Rudder
  • "One Song" (2007), Devon Seale
  • "Our Cultural Heritage" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "Outcast (The)" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Pack up Your Things and Go" - " Pack Yuh Bags" (1998), Luta
  • "Piranha" (2012), Tiny
  • "Play Me" (1977), Maestro
  • "Play Mr Pannist Play" (1994), Defosto
  • "Play My Music" (1978), Brother Mudada
  • "PM’s Sex Probe" (1974), Lord Shorty
  • "Politicians Love Calypsonians" - "Politicians Love Calypso" (1999), Manchild
  • "Poor, Pious and Proud" (2014), Cro Cro
  • "Questionable Canon" (1948), Atilla the Hun
  • "Rainorama" (1973), Lord Kitchener
  • "Rate Rate Ray" - "Ra Tiray Tiray" (1941), Lord Invader
  • "Real Bandits" (2016), Helon Francis
  • "Reply to the Ministry" (1969), Chalkdust
  • "Respect the Calypsonian" (1988), Gypsy
  • "Respect the Thing" - "Respect the Ting" (1982), Chalkdust
  • "Rhythm of a People" (1997), Gypsy
  • "Road (The)" (1963), Lord Kitchener
  • "Scrunting Calypsonian" (1978), Trinidad Rio
  • "Seeking Sparrow's advice" (2013), Duane O’Connor
  • "Shame Mr. Shak" (2012), Chalkdust
  • "She Want Me To Sing in She Party" - "Sing in She Party" (1987), Scrunter
  • "Sixty-Seven" (1967), Lord Kitchener
  • "Soca Warriors" - "Soca Warrior too" (2007), Chalkdust
  • "Sparrow Come Back Home" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Spirit of Carnival" (2016), Devon Seale
  • "St. Joan of Arts" (2008), Chalkdust
  • "Stage Gone Bad" (2020), Kes (band) & Iwer George
  • "Sumintra" (1988), Rikki Jai
  • "Telephone Call" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Tempo" - "Gimme More Tempo" (1977), Calypso Rose
  • "Tension" (1988), Mighty Shadow
  • "Tent Is it (The)" (2001), Chalkdust
  • "They Don’t Like the Government" (2000), Crazy
  • "They Don’t Make Them Like Me Anymore" (1991), Lord Pretender
  • "They Put Me So" (2019) - Chalkdust
  • "Too Much Quacks" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Too Much Tempo" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Too Young to Soca" (1986), Machel Montano
  • "Trinidad Carnival" (1974), Lord Superior
  • "Trinidad Loves to Play Carnival" (1939), Mighty Growler
  • "True Calypsonian" - "True True Kaisonian" - "True True Calypsonian" (1966), Lord Pretender
  • "Two Chords & Leston Paul" (1988), Chalkdust
  • "Ubiquitous and Kaiso" (1944), Atilla the Hun
  • "Uncle Sam Own We" (1978), Chalkdust
  • "Vagabond" (2015), Ricardo Drue
  • "Vincentian Calypso King" (1963), Lord Blakie
  • "You Can’t Judge Culture" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Warrior" (1977), Calypso Rose
  • "Wedding of the Century" (2014), Chucky
  • "What Is an Obscene Calypso?" (1944), Lord Pretender
  • "What Is Calypso" (1968) - The Mighty Duke
  • "What’s Wrong With Me" (2000), Mighty Shadow
  • "What the Hell You Want" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Where Kaiso Went" (2004), Brother Valentino
  • "Who Next" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "Why I Sing" (2012), Singing Sandra
  • "Why Milo" (1975), Chalkdust
  • "Why We Attack" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "Wild Indian" (1945), The Duke of Iron
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Culture - Calypso War / Extempo / Picong

  • "Alexander the Murderer" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night" (1931), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Asteroid" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion
  • "Bad Johns" (2001), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Belmont Jackass" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Bull Pistle Gang" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Calypso Invasion" (1945), The Duke of Iron
  • "Calypso War" (1946), Lord Invader, Macbeth the Great, The Duke of Iron
  • "Corbeau Flying High" (1958), Lord Melody
  • "Cowboy Melo" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Cowboy Sparrow" (1959), Lord Melody
  • "Don’t Touch Me" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Executor Doomed to Die" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Executor the homeless man" (1937), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Fire and Brimstone" (1936), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Fowl Thief Melo" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Hangman’s Cemetery" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Horse Race" - "Sparrow Melody Horse Race" (1962), Lord Melody
  • "In the Morning" (1939), Mighty Growler
  • "Loretto" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Madame Dracula" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Mamaguille" - "Mamaguy" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion
  • "Malnutrition Songsters" (1937), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "March" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Marjorie" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Melody Lie" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "More the Merrier (The)" (1993), Mighty Sparrow
  • "My Reply to Houdini" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "No Royal Jail" (1961), Lord Inventor
  • "On His Blindness" (1952), Lord Executor
  • "Picong Duel" (1957), Mighty Sparrow & Lord Melody
  • "Renegades" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Reply to Melody" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Rope" (1972), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Royal Goal" - "Royal Jail" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Soca Pressure" (1985), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Song No. 99" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Sparrow’s Nose" - "St. Lucian Women" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Sparrow’s Sister" (1959), Lord Melody
  • "Sugar for Pan" (1986), Mighty Terror
  • "Texilia" (1936), King Radio & Growling Tiger
  • "They Say I Reign Too Long" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Three Calypsonians" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Trouble in Arima" (1954), Lord Kitchener
  • "Turn Back Melo" - "Turn back Melody" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Ugliness" (1961), Mighty Dougla
  • "What They Get, They Will Take" (1963), Lord Blakie
  • "War" (1937), Atilla the Hun & Lord Caresser & Roaring Lion & Lord Executor
  • "War" (1979), Crazy
  • "War Declaration" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Yuh Cyar Buy Extempo" (2009), Contender

Culture - Icons (Calypso / Carnival / Pan)

  • "Ah Miss de Bards" (2014), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Thief it from Kitch" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Atilla’s Pen" (2011), Kurt Allen
  • "Before You Gone" - "Before you gone Birdie" (2016), Macomere Fifi
  • "Black Stalin Say" (2013), Kurt Allen
  • "For Kitchener's Sake" (2000), Chalkdust
  • "Formula" (2019), Pharaoh
  • "Godfather (The)" (2001), Mighty Bomber
  • "Hammer (The)" (1986), David Rudder
  • "Heroes" (2001), Denyse Plummer
  • "Is Wot" (2022), David Rudder
  • "Kaiso Kaiso" (2006), Luta
  • "Kitchener Say" (2001), Defosto
  • "One for Bertie" (2013), Helon Francis
  • "One More Kitchener" (2000), Defosto
  • "Pretender's Reminder" (2015), Mistah Shak
  • "Sartorial Elegance" (2007), Duane O'Connor
  • "Spree Simon" - "Tribute to Spree Simon" (1975), Lord Kitchener
  • "Tribute to Kitchener" (2000), Lord Relator
  • "Tribute to Singing Sandra" (2021), Ajamu
  • "Tribute to Sundar Popo" (1995), Black Stalin
  • "Tribute to Winsford Devine" (2010), Crazy
  • "Trinity is My Name" (1994), Delamo
  • "Will (The)" (1982), Scrunter
  • "Wot Time it is" (2022), Aaron Duncan

Culture - Kalenda / Stick fighting

  • "Archie Boulay" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Bois" (2014), Mistah Shak
  • "Carnival Celebration" (1956), Small Island Pride
  • "Clear the Way When the Bamboo Play" (1938), Lord Caresser
  • "Congo Bara (Prisonier levez)" - "Kongo Bara (Pwizonnyé Lévé)" - "Congo Barra" (1935), Keskidee Trio
  • "Fire Brigade - Water the Road" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Man Man Biscoe" (1937), Atilla the Hun
  • "Reine Maribone (La)" - "Larenn Maribone" (1939), Atilla the Hun
  • "Sergeant Brown" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Scorpion" (1939), Atilla the Hun
  • "Ten Thousand to Bar Me One" (1939), Lord Invader
  • "They Want Fo’ Come Kill me" - "Dey Want to Come Kill me" (1936), Keskidee Trio
  • "When I Dead Bury me Clothes" (1962), Growling Tiger
  • "Zingue Tala" - "Zing Gay Ta La La" (1937), Atilla the Hun

Culture - Steelpan

  • "Bass Man" (1974), Mighty Shadow
  • "Beat Of a Steelband (The)" - "Steelband (The)" (1946), Lord Kitchener
  • "Bottle and Spoon" (1981), Lord Relator
  • "Carenage Water" (1942), Lord Invader
  • "Dustbin Cover" (1977), Crazy
  • "Engine Room (The)" (1993), David Rudder
  • "Guitar Pan (The)" (1997), Lord Kitchener
  • "Iron Man" (1990) - Lord Kitchener
  • "Mister Pan Maker" (1987), Black Stalin
  • "Music Pan" (2019), Mighty Sparrow
  • "No Pan" (1979), Lord Kitchener
  • "Pan Gone" - "Steelband Gone" (1973), Black Stalin
  • "Pan in A Minor" (1987), Lord Kitchener
  • "Pan in Danger" (1985), Merchant
  • "Pan on the Moon" (2009), Scrunter
  • "Pan Rising" (2011), Denyse Plummer
  • "Pan Talent" (1965), Mighty Terror
  • "Pan Woman" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Play One" - "Pan Shootout" (1979), Black Stalin
  • "Retrorama" (2011), Devon Seale
  • "Steel and Brass" (1973), King Wellington
  • "Steelband Clash" (1953), Lord Blakie
  • "Steelband Jamboree" - 2Pan Jamboree" (1966), Mighty Terror
  • "Steel Band Music" (1964), Lord Kitchener
  • "Symphony on the Street" (1998), Lord Kitchener
  • "Tribute to Clive Bradley" (2006), Defosto
  • "Tribute to Pan Pushers" (2001), Lord Blakie
  • "War 2004" (2004), Defosto

Culture - Other

  • "Ann Sheridan" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "Ban the Hula Hoop" (1959), Mighty Striker
  • "Bionic Man" (1977), Maestro
  • "Bobby Sox Idol" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
    • Calypso Be Bop* (1957), Lord Flea & his Calypsonians
  • "CNN Society" (1995), Chalkdust
  • "Evening News" (1959), Lord Creator
  • "From Naipaul to Shame" (2002), Chalkdust
  • "Get Off the Radio" (1982), Lancelot Layne
  • "Hulk" (2018), Blaxx
  • "Jitterbug" (1941), King Radio
  • "Kalo Gee Bull Bull" (1974), Lord Shorty
  • "Kuch Gadbad Hai" (1985), Babla & Kanchan
  • "Pussy Galore" (1962), Young Growler
  • "Rumba Dance" (The) (1936), Roaring Lion
  • "Sanford & Son" (1981), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Shakespeare Quotations" (1958), Lord Christo
  • "Suzi-Qu" (1940), Roaring Lion
  • "Teenage Bossa Nova Girl" (1963), Lord Hummingbird
  • "Tarzan" (1959), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Tun Tun" (1982), Mighty Power
  • "Vice in Your Own Head" (1957), Lord Creator

Drugs

  • "Coke Is Not It" (1986), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Coke Talk" (1988), Chalkdust
  • "Death for Sale" (1991), Arrow
  • "Drug Report" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Future Belongs to Me (The)" - "I Am Drug Free" (1992), David Rudder
  • "Lucifer in Powder Form" - "Lucifer" (1986), Bally
  • "Rebecca" (1983), Blue Boy
  • "Soucouyant" (1992), Mighty Shadow
  • "Watch Out My Children" (1989), Ras Shorty I

Economy / Poverty

  • "Ah, Gertie" (1937 ), Lord Caresser
  • "Ah Tired Do That" (1988), The Mighty Duke
  • "Bargee Pelauri" (1936), Roaring Lion
  • "Capitalism Gone Mad" (1983), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Commission’s report" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Cyar Take Dat" (1996), Brother Resistance
  • "Devaluation" (1969), Chalkdust
  • "Dollar and the Pound (The)" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Five Year Plan" (1939), Atilla the Hun
  • "Flood (The)" (2020), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Food Distribution" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "Food Prices" (1980), Lord Relator
  • "Four Cents a Day" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "Full Extreme" (2017), Ultimate Rejects
  • "Here Now and Long Ago" - "Iere Now and Long Ago" (1935), Atilla the Hun & Lord Beginner
  • "I Don’t Know How the Young Men Living" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Landlord and Bailiff" (1934), Atilla the Hun
  • "Laughing in the Ghetto" (2000), Pink Panther
  • "Make Them Alright" (1983), Black Stalin
  • "Miss Mary’s Advice" (1938), Growling Tiger
  • "Mr. Nankivell’s speech" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Mr. Robinson and Lockjoint" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Neurosis of the Rich" (1975), Mighty Sparrow
  • "No Doctor, No" (1957), Mighty Sparrow
  • "No Madame" (1971), Calypso Rose
  • "No More Bench and Board" - "No mo' bench and board" (1931), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "No Vacancy" (2006), Brian London
  • "Pay as You Earn" - "Paye" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Piece of the Action" (1976), Black Stalin
  • "Plant de Land" (1980), Lord Shorty
  • "Port of Spain Gone Insane" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Poverty Is Hell" (1994), Mighty Shadow
  • "Rich Man Poor Man" (1960), Lord Brynner
  • "Rip Off" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Run Something" - "Piece of the Action" (1976), Black Stalin
  • "Sea Water and Sun" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Send your Children to the Orphan Home" (1936), Roaring Lion
  • "Shop Closing Ordinance" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Strike (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Single Tone" (1932), Lionel Belasco
  • "Tax Them" (1958), Lord Superior
  • "Trinidad Money" - "Trinidad Dollar" (1979), Chalkdust
  • "Trinidad the Godfather" - "Trinidad: The Caribbean Godfather" - "Trinidad Godfather (The)" (1980), Mighty Swallow
  • "Try a Screw to Get Through" (1936), Growling Tiger
  • "Voices From the Ghetto" - "Crying in the Ghetto" (1999), Singing Sandra
  • "Wah Yuh Doing" (2017), Chuck Gordon
  • "Where Was Butler?" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Worker’s Appeal" (1936), Growling Tiger
  • "You Can’t Get Away From the Tax" (1959), Mighty Sparrow

Education

  • "Another Day in Paradise" (1997), David Rudder
  • "Back to School" (1979), Bill Trotman (Trinidad Bill)
  • "Change the System" (1995), Cro Cro
  • "Child Training" (1969), Mighty Composer
  • "Contribution" (2002), Sugar Aloes
  • "Dan Is the Man in the Van" - "Dan Is the Man" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Doh Waste it" (2010), Aaron Duncan
  • "Down the Road" (1938), Growling Tiger
  • "Education" (1967), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Education Is Key" (2017), Massive
  • "Empowerment" (2001), Singing Sandra
  • "English Language (The)" (1950), Roaring Lion
  • "English Language (The)" (1952), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Generation Next" (2016), Mistah Shak
  • "Ghetto of the Mind" (2009), Singing Sandra
  • "Go Daniel" (1949), Atilla the Hun
  • "Idle Company" (1987), Gypsy
  • "Little Black Boy" (1997), Gypsy
  • "No Child Shall Be Left Behind" (2010), Singing Sandra
  • "No Respect" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Obey the Highway Code" (1965), Lord Magic
  • "Only the Fools" (2003), Heather McIntosh
  • "Parables" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Remember" - "Ma and Pa" (1962), Lord Creator
  • "School Days" - "Happy School Days" (1973), Mighty Sparrow
  • "To be an Icon" (2017), All Rounder
  • "Too Many" (2016), Gypsy
  • "Trinidad English" (1954), Lord Alligator
  • "Wash Your Hands" (1950), Roaring Lion
  • "Watch the Mixture" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "We Pass that Stage" (1974), Mighty Sparrow

Environment

  • "Mother Earth Crying" (1994), Baron
  • "Progress" (1980), King Austin
  • "Progress 2021" (2021), Crazy
  • "What to Do with the Environment" (1994), Chalkdust

Family relations

  • "Ah Love my Nani" (2014), Sharleene Boodram
  • "Chinese Children Calling Me Daddy" - "Chinese Children" (1950), Mighty Terror
  • "Dead Beat" (2018), Lady Watchman
  • "Don’t let me mother know" - "Take me down to Los Iros" (1935), Keskidee Trio
  • "Family" (1981), Lord Nelson
  • "Freddo" (1939), Atilla the Hun
  • "Gal Come Home With Me" (1941), Atilla the Hun
  • "He Not Dead Yet" (1962), King Fighter
  • "I Need a Man" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Mama Popo" - "Doh Beat Mama Popo" (1959), Lord Brigo
  • "Marriage (The)" (1997), Black Stalin
  • "Mother and Daughter" (2016), Macomere Fifi
  • "Mother-in-law" (1967), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Mother’s Love (A)" (1941), Mighty Destroyer
  • "Mother’s Love" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Nobody Ain’t Go Know" (2007), Cro Cro
  • "Obey" (1979), Lord Brigo
  • "Par Quiea Mweh" - "Pa Kwiyé Mwen" (Don't Call Me) (1990), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Precious" (1991), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Shame and Scandal in the Family" - "Shame and Scandal" (1943), Sir Lancelot
  • "Shame and Scandal in the Family" - "Wau Wau" (1962), Lord Melody
  • "Stay Giving Praises" (1981), Black Stalin

Feminism

  • "Abatina" (2016), Calypso Rose
  • "Ah Do Come So" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ah Done with Dat" (1980), Signing Diane
  • "Black Woman" (1991), Ella Andall
  • "Bye Bye Blakie" (1969), Calypso Princess
  • "Careful What Yuh Ask For" (2011), Karen Asche
  • "Caribbean Man" (2000), Singing Sandra
  • "Caribbean Woman" (1997), Shirlane Hendrickson
  • "Carnival Ooman" (1992), David Rudder
  • "Coming Back to What" (2013), Marvellous Marva
  • "D’Signs" (2008), Spicey
  • "Debbie" (1975), Singing Francine
  • "Die With My Dignity" - "Die With Dignity" - "Dignity" (1987), Singing Sandra
  • "Do Dem Back" (1974), Calypso Rose
  • "Do so Eh Like So" (1965), Lord Brigo
  • "Don’t Put your Hand on meh Property" (1980), Twiggy
  • "Engagement Ring" (1970), Calypso Rose
  • "Equaliser (The)" (1998), Singing Sandra
  • "Learn from Arithmetic" (2017), Chalkdust
  • "Leave Me Alone" (2016), Calypso Rose
  • "Love me or Leave me" (1953), Lady Iere
  • "Me Eh Fighting" (2009), Bally
  • "Me No Want No Married Man" - "Me No Want" (1993), Calypso Rose
  • "Miss Pam" (1993), Calypso Rose
  • "No More Hard Work" (1998), Singing Sandra
  • "Pepper Pepper" (1989), Drupatee
  • "Pressure" (1987), Carl & Carol Jacobs
  • "Raperman Coming (The)" - "Raperman" - "Sexy Employers" (1984), Singing Sandra
  • "Rocket in Yuh Pocket" (1992), The Mighty Duke
  • "Romeo" (1055), Lord Kitchener
  • "Run Away" (1978), Signing Francine
  • "Stone Cold Dead in the Market" - "He Had It Coming" - "Murder in the Market" - "Payne Dead" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Survey (The)" (2018), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Throw Me Down" (1990), Drupatee
  • "Woman Is Boss" - "Who’s the Boss?" - "The Boss" (1988), Denyse Plummer
  • "Woman Is Not the Weaker Sex" (1941), Atilla the Hun
  • "Woman on the Bass" (1980), Scrunter
  • "Woman Rising" (1991), Easlyn Orr
  • "Women of the Land" (1979), Poser
  • "Women Their Own Worst Enemy" (2001), Singing Sandra
  • "Yes Darling" (1987), Tambu
  • "You No Need Dem" (1993), Calypso Rose
  • "You’re Hurting Me" (1994), Bernadette Paul
  • "Young Girls Break Away" (1927), Atilla the Hun

Food / Drink

  • "Callaloo Tonic" (1965), Mighty Terror
  • "Chinese Food" (1964), Lord Blakie
  • "Chip Chip Water" (1941), King Radio
  • "Hot dogs Made their Name" - "Hot Dog Hot Doggie" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Hurry, Hurry, Come for Curry" (1984), Dave 'Booker' Martin
  • "Ice Man (The)" - "Ice Ice" (1960), Lord Melody
  • "Mango Vert" - "Manngo Vé"(1912), Lovey's String Band
  • "Marajhin Cousin" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Pepsi-Cola" (1947), Lord Invader

Grandstanding / Boasting

  • "All Season Man (De)" (1979), Black Stalin
  • "Bois Bandé" - "Bwa Bandé" (1968), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Bullpistle" (1977), Maestro
  • "Dread Wizard" (1979), Mighty Shadow
  • "Drunk and Disorderly" - "Natasha" (1972), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Du Du Yemi" (1977), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Dutch Romance" (1989), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Portuguese Dance" (1947), King Pharaoh
  • "I Can Make More Love Than Romeo" (1939), Roaring Lion
  • "Iron Duke in the Land" (1914), Julian Whiterose
  • "More they Try to Do Me Bad (The)" (1938), Lord Caresser
  • "No Kind ah Man At All" (1973), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Papa Chunks" (1941), Roaring Lion
  • "Radio Fifty Wives" (1936), King Radio
  • "Sock It to Me" (1970), Lord Kitchener
  • "Sweet Like Sugar Cane" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Take Me to Trinidad" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Village Ram (The)" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Whop Whap" (2018), All Rounder
  • "Woop Wap" (1964), The Mighty Duke

Health

  • "Ah Fraid de AIDS" (1988), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Asian Flu" (1958), Mighty Wrangler
  • "Awakening" (The) (2021), Crazy
  • "Backyard Jam" (2021), Farmer Nappy
  • "Better Days" (2021), Patrice Roberts
  • "Bush Medicine" (1971), Lord Relator
  • "Doh JackAss the Scene" (2021), Devon Seale
  • "Ebola Scare" (2015), Myron B
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Amery Brown
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Brian London
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Devon Seale
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), His Majesty Baker Jr (First of the chain)
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Josef Paty
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Michelle Henry
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Raymond Ramnarine
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Roger Mohammed
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Singing Sandra
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Stacey Sobers
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Terri Lyons
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Lady Watchman
  • "Extempo Quarantine Challenge" (2020), Queen Victoria
  • "Fighting AIDS" (2005), Adesh Samaroo
  • "H.I.V" (2001), Mighty Shadow
  • "How I Spent My Time at the Hospital" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Jaws" (1977), Lord Kitchener
  • "Melancholy" (2021), Nailah Blackman
  • "Ms Corona" (2020), G String
  • "Negative to Positive" (1992), Bryan Bumba Payne
  • "Pandemic" (2021), Brother Mudada
  • "Vaccine or Not" (2021), Kurt Allen
  • "What Corona Do" (2021), Contender

Humour / Puns / Smutty

  • "60 Million Frenchmen" (1996), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ah Fraid Pussy Bite Me" (1987), Mighty Sparrow
  • "All Fool’s Day" (1958), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Arabian Festival" (1964), Lord Blakie
  • "Ash Wednesday" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "Barrack Room Scandal" (1953), Mighty Panther
  • "Big Bamboo" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ballad of Hulsie X" (1988), David Rudder
  • "Bedbug Song (The)" (1953), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Bitin Insex" (2002), Ronnie McIntosh
  • "Body Wine" (2011), All Rounder
  • "Bomber’s Sister" (1960), Mighty Bomber
  • "Booboo Man" - Mama Look at Bubu - "Mama Look a Boo Boo" (1955), Lord Melody
  • "Bus Conductor (The)" (2001), Poser
  • "Carlton, the Peeping Tom" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Cat Brain" (1954), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Cat-O-Nine" (1962), Count Zebra & the Seasiders
  • "Centipede in the Bikini" (1967), Lord Blackhat
  • "China Man" (1971) Lord Christo
  • "Chinese Accident" (1963), Lord Blakie
  • "Chinese Cricket Match" (1956), Mighty Dictator
  • "Chinese Football Match" (1998), Trinidad Rio
  • "Cock Can’t Stand Up (The)" - "One Foot Cock" (2007), Crazy
  • "Congo Man" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Congo Man" (2008), Machel Montano
  • "Congo Pepper" (1977), Maestro
  • "Convoy" (1940), The Duke of Iron
  • "Corn Plum Plum" (1979), Lord Laro
  • "Creature From the Black Lagoon (The)" (1957), Lord Melody
  • "Curry Tabanca" (1987), De Mighty Trini
  • "Deputy" - "Deputy Essential" (1982), Penguin
  • "Dingo Lay" - "Dingolay" - "Dingolay Oy" (1935), Roaring Lion
  • "Doctor Beckles" (1967), Lord Canary
  • "Doctor Bird" (1988), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Dr. Kitsch" - "Needle (The)" (1963), Lord Kitchener
  • "Doggie" (2002), Anslem Douglas
  • "Dollar Wine" (1991), Colin Lucas
  • "Donkey City" (1942), Sir Lancelot
  • "Dumb Boy and Parrot" (1962), Lord Christo
  • "Dustbin Cover" (1978), Crazy
  • "Electrician (The)" (1975) - Crazy
  • "Emelda’s Nightmare" - "Lemme Go Emelda" (1959), Young Killer
  • "English Society" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Exchange No Robbery" (1961), Mighty Dougla
  • "Family Confusion" (1962), Mighty Dougla
  • "Fat Pussy Cat and Rat" - "Papa Rat" (2010), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Feeling It" (1984), Baron
  • "Female Woodcutter" (1965), Mighty Terror
  • "Fire in Me Wire" - "Fire in Meh Wire" - "Fire" (1967), Calypso Rose
  • "For Cane" - "Goin Fo' Cane" (1972), Gypsy
  • "Fork in Napkin" (2011), D-Daz
  • "Fountain of Youth" (1960), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Fresh Water Yankee" (1969), Mighty Cypher
  • "Frozen Chicken" - "Frozen Chicken Chest" - "Chicken Chest" (1957), Lord Christo
  • "Garlic Sauce" (2012), All Rounder
  • "Gemma on the Ferris Wheel" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Gimme the Ting" - "Gimme de Ting" (2000), Lord Kitchener
  • "Go Down" (2013), All Rounder
  • "Grandfather’s Clock" (1960), Mighty Striker
  • "Greatest Love (The)" (1998), Puppet Master
  • "Green Fowl" - "Have you Ever Seen a Green Fowl Yet?" (1946), Mighty Killer
  • "Grinding Massala" (1958), Mighty Killer
  • "Gumbo Lai Lai" - "Gombo Lai Lai" - "Gumbo Li Li" (1928), Lord Executor
  • "Handyman (The)" (1968), Lord Kitchener
  • "Hold de Pussy" - "Hold de Pussy Cat" (1967), Lord Blakie
  • "How to Prevent Horn" (1974), Lord Shorty
  • "I Ain’t Gonna Do It No More" (1976), Roaring Lion
  • "In a Calabash" (1950), Mighty Killer
  • "Iron Man (De)" (1964), Mighty Zandolie
  • "Joan and James" - "Five Little Popos" (1964), Mighty Bomber
  • "Jonah and the Bake" (1957), Lord Melody
  • "Jook for Jook" (1968), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Killer Bees" (1992), Lord Kitchener
  • "King Liar" (1977), Lord Nelson
  • "Kitch: Small Comb, Scratch Me Head" (1950), Lord Kitchener
  • "Laziest Man (The)" - "Lazy Man" (1961), Mighty Dougla
  • "Lick Down me Nani" "Car Lick Dowm me Nani (The)" - "Careless Driver" (1992), Drupatee
  • "Lie" (2007), Singing Sandra
  • "Lignum Vitae" (1925), Sam Manning
  • "Little Drummer Boy (The)" (1978), Lord Kitchener
  • "Lizard (The)" (1969), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Looking for Cups" (1991), Trinidad Rio
  • "Lucy Garden" (1998), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Lying Excuses" (1987), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Mad People on a Train" (1967) – Mighty Prowler
  • "Mad Scientist" - "What the Scientist Say" (1962), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Man Family" - "Too Much Man Family" (1967) - Mighty Zandolie
  • "Man For Kim" (1976), Lord Shorty
  • "Mango Tree" (1951-1953), Lord Kitchener
  • "Mango Vert" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Manjhay" - "Manjé" (1989), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Marabella Wedding" (1935), Growling Tiger
  • "Marajhin Cousin" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Meh Number is 68" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Merchant of Venice" (1967), Mighty Zandolie
  • "Mr Herbert" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ms McCarthy party" (1981), King Wellington
  • "Missing Ball (The)" - "Guardian Contest (The)" (1939), King Radio
  • "Mount Olga" (1947), Lord Kitchener
  • "Music Farm" (1997), Machel Montano & Xtatic
  • "My Donkey Want Water" (1945), Macbeth the Great
  • "My Pussin" (1965), Lord Kitchener
  • "Mystery Band" (1993), Lord Kitchener
  • "My Boy Joey" (1965), Mighty Beaver
  • "Nanny" (1986), Scrunter
  • "Nanny Revival" (1993), Becket
  • "Night Food" (1955), Bedasse (with Calypso Quintet)
  • "No Job Suits Striker" - "Can’t Find a Job to Suit Me" (1958), Mighty Striker
  • "No More Calaloo" – "I Don’t Want No Calaloo" (1939), Mighty Growler
  • "No Toilet in Town" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "Once Upon a Time" (2003), Mighty Bomber
  • "Out the Fire" (1937), Roaring Lion
  • "Palet" (2005), Calypso Rose
  • "Picking Sense From Nonsense" (1955), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Paul Yer Mudder Come" - "Paul Yuh Mother Come" (1990), Crazy
  • "Pogo Stick" (2000), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Pounding Rice Fine" (1952), Mighty Spitfire
  • "Pussy Cat" (2019), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Queen’s Canary (The)" (1956), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ramgoat Batism" (1949), Wonder
  • "Sally Sally Water" (1937), Roaring Lion
  • "Saltfish" (1976), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Saltfish Price" (1968), Lord Companero
  • "Saving That for Company" (1973), Lord Nelson
  • "Saxophone No.2" (1953), Lord Kitchener
  • "Sell the Pussy" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Severe Licking" (1971), Baron
  • "Simpson" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Soca in the Shaolin Temple" (1981), Blue Boy
  • "Soft Man" (1984), Penguin
  • "Soul Chick" (1973), Lord Funny
  • "Sparrow Dead" (1969), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Stickman (De)" (1966), Mighty Zandolie
  • "Stuttering Mopsy" (1970), Lord Brigo
  • "Supposin'" (1964), Mighty Composer
  • "Talking Baby" (1984), All Rounder
  • "Talking Backwards" (1953), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Taxi Driver" - "Taxi Driver in Venezuela" (1956), Small Island Pride
  • "Tie Tongue Mopsey" (1946), Lord Kitchener
  • "Turn Around Baby" (1945), Roaring Lion
  • "Twin Brother" (1959), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Uncle Jo’ Gimme Mo'" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Virginia’s Alzheimer" (2013), Chalkdust
  • "Wash Pan Wash" (1933), King Radio
  • "Webster’s Dictionary" - "Trinidad Dictionary" (1969), Mighty Conqueror
  • "Well Spoken Moppers" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Whip (De)" (1967), Mighty Zandolie
  • "Why me Neighbor Vex with Me" (1927), Railway Douglas
  • "Wife and Boat" (1974), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Willie Dead" (1998), Mighty Sparrow
  • "You Don’t Need Glasses to See" (1945), Lord Invader

Jump up / Carnival dancing / Bacchanal

  • "Advantage" (2011), Machel Montano
  • "Ah Feeling" (2015), Lead Pipe & Saddis
  • "Ah Tell She" (1979), Poser
  • "Bacchanal Time" (1993), Superblue
  • "Band of the Year" (2006), Patrice Roberts & Machel Montano
  • "Big Truck" (1997), Machel Montano
  • "Black Man Feel Like Party" - "Black Man Come to Party" - "Ah Feel to Party" (1991), Black Stalin
  • "Brown Sugar" (1979), Lord Melody
  • "Can You Feel It" (2016), Aaron Duncan
  • "Carnival Come Back Again" (2000), Iwer George
  • "Carnival Coming" (1979), Count Robbin
  • "Caribbean Party" (1993), David Rudder
  • "Come Leh We Jam" - "Soca Jam" (1978), Calypso Rose
  • "Dead or Alive" (2005), Shurwayne Winchester
  • "Differentology" (2013), Bunji Garlin
  • "Display" (2003), Fay-Ann Lyons
  • "Do the Iwer/Butterfly/Shadow/Wave" (1995), Colin Lucas
  • "Endless Vibrations" (1974), Lord Shorty
  • "Ethel" (1981), Blue Boy
  • "Face to Face" (1988), The Mighty Duke
  • "Famalay" (2019), Machel Montano, Skinny Fabulous & Bunji Garlin
  • "Fantastic Friday" (2013), Superblue
  • "Fever" (1975), Lord Kitchener
  • "Follow the Leader" (1997), Nigel Lewis
  • "Footsteps" (1998), Wayne Rodriguez
  • "Free Up" (1989), Tambu
  • "Get On" (2008), Fay-Ann Lyons
  • "Get on Bad" (2015), Machel Montano
  • "Give Me Pressure" (1989), Mighty Shadow
  • "Hard Fete" (2023), Bunji Garlin
  • "Hot Hot Hot" (1982), Arrow
  • "I Dare You" (2008), Destra
  • "It’s Carnival" - "Carnival" (2003), Machel Montano & Destra
  • "Jab Jab" (1992), Superblue
  • "Jumbie" - "Ah See You" (2005), Scrunter
  • "Jumbie" (2007), Machel Montano
  • "Jump and Wave" (1994), Preacher
  • "Jump in the line" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Jump Up" (2009), Byron Lee
  • "La La Jam" - "La La" (1976), Lord Nelson
  • "Let the Music Play" (1990), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Like a Boss" (2015), Machel Montano
  • "Look De Band Coming" (2004), Shurwayne Winchester
  • "Lucy" (2015), Destra
  • "Mama Dis Is Mas" (1964), Lord Kitchener
  • "Margie" (1970), Lord Kitchener
  • "Mas in Madison Square Garden" (1971), Lord Kitchener
  • "Miss Mary" (1974), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Miss Tourist" (1968), Lord Kitchener
  • "Move" (1991), Black Stalin
  • "Moving (To the Left)" (1996), Nigel Lewis
  • "My Parade" (2019), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Nani Wine" (1989), Crazy
  • "No No We Eh Going Home" (1990), Tambu
  • "Oh Yay" (2016), Olatunji
  • "Ola" (2015), Olatunji
  • "Outa Space" (1999), Machel Montano & Beenie Man
  • "Palance" (2010), JW & Blaze
  • "Party Done" (2015). Angela Hunte & Machel Montano
  • "Phenomenal" (2015), Benjai
  • "Play your Mas" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Pump Up" - "Carnival Come Back Up" (2000), Superblue
  • "Pump Yuh Flag" (2012), Machel Montano
  • "Rack Me Rack Me" (1985), Rootsman
  • "River (De)" (1999), Sanell Dempster
  • "Rock it" (1985), Merchant
  • "Sing Ram Bam" (1987), Gypsy
  • "Soca Kingdom" (2018), Machel Montano & Superblue
  • "Soca Movin’ On" (2008), Erphaan Alves
  • "Stranger" (2001), Mighty Shadow
  • "Take Your Clothes off" (1993), Spice & Company
  • "This Party is It" (1988), Tambu
  • "Toronto Mas" (1972), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Tourist Leggo" (1976), King Short Shirt
  • "Trinidad" - "Right Hand" (2002), Naya George
  • "Turn Up" (2017), Bunji Garlin
  • "Two Days to Go" - "Two to Go" (1988), Lord Kitchener
  • "Waiting on the Stage" (2016), Machel Montano
  • "Wine on a Bomsie" (1993), Rikki Jai

LGBTQ

  • "List (The)" (1985), Mighty Gabby
  • "Man Nicer Than Woman" (1963), Mighty Dougla
  • "My Experience on the Reeperbahn" (1959), Lord Invader
  • "Norman" (1978), Merchant
  • "Whoopsin" (1941), Roaring Lion
  • "Woman’s Sweeter than Man" (1926), Wilmoth Houdini

Machismo / Misogynist

  • "Bad Woman" (1934), Roaring Lion
  • "Bajan Girls" (1928), Macbeth the Great
  • "Blood Is Thicker than Water" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Both of Them" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Caroline" (1926), Lord Melody
  • "Child Father" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Cuff Dem Down" (1974), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Dog Bite You" (1978), Lord Kitchener
  • "Dolly Doray" (1967), Mighty Zandolie
  • "E Pete" - "I Piti" (1976), Lord Shorty
  • "Gu Nu Gu" (1979), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Indrani" (1972), Lord Shorty
  • "I Want to Join in Matrimony" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Jagabat Women" (1960), Mighty Bomber
  • "Jamaica Woman" (1962), Lord Kitchener
  • "Jean Marabunta" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Keep the City Clean" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Learn to Cook" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Levez Mako" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Loving Woman Is Waste of Time" (1950), The Duke of Iron
  • "Lulu" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Man Centapee" - "Man Centipede" "Man Santapee" - "Female of the Species (The)" (1943), Atilla the Hun
  • "Man Like to Feel" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" - "Woman You Can't Fool My Man" (1936), King Radio
  • "Man with the Pepper Sauce Is Boss (The)" - "Pepper Sauce" (1987), Mighty Swallow
  • "Mary Ann" - "Marianne" - "All Day All Night" (1945), Roaring Lion
  • "May May" - "Mae Mae" (1960), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Modern Girl (The)" (1945), Atilla the Hun
  • "Monica Doo Doo" (1960), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Mr Rake and Scrape" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Mrs. Harriman" (1972), Lord Kitchener
  • "Mr. Walker" (1968), Mighty Sparrow
  • "My Troubles with Dorothy" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Netty Netty" - "Nettie Nettie" - "Can’t Stand the Diggings" (1937), Roaring Lion
  • "No Money No Love" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Nothing for Nothing" - "Give to Get" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Obeah Wedding" - "Melda" (1966) - Mighty Sparrow
  • "Old Men Come Back Again" (1939), King Radio
  • "Pretentious Women" (1964), Young Growler
  • "Raphaela" (1960), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Rats (The)" (1936), Growling Tiger
  • "Raycan" (1977), King Short Shirt
  • "Sa Sa Yay" - "Sa Sa Ay" - "Sa Sa Yé"(1969), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Shake up" - "Shake Up Shake Up" (1977), Lord Brigo
  • "Sixteen Commandments" (1963), Lord Shorty
  • "Smoke a Cigarette" (1957), Lord Kitchener
  • "Spend Your Money Wise" (1962), Nap Hepburn
  • "Sugar Plum" (1978), Mighty Shadow
  • "Teaser" (1990), Becket
  • "Teresa" (1960), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Thirteen Year Old Mabel" (1956), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Thunder" - "Is Thunder" (1987), The Mighty Duke
  • "Treat ‘em Rough" (1951), Atilla the Hun
  • "Twenty to One" (1974), Lord Kitchener
  • "Ugly Woman" - "Marry an Ugly Woman" - "Give an Ugly Woman Matrimony" (1934), Roaring Lion
  • "Vincentian Doreen" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Wife and Mother" (1954), Lord Kitchener
  • "Women and Money" (1962), Mighty Conqueror
  • "Women Police in England" (1951), Mighty Terror
  • "Women Will Rule the World" (1935), Atilla the Hun
  • "You Can’t Get Anything Out of Me" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "You Gotta Give Away" (1979), Singing Diane (written by Lord Kitchener)

National identity - Emigration

  • "B.G. Blues" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "Barbados Blues" (1925), Sam Manning
  • "Bouncing Baby Boy" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "Brain Drain" (1968), Chalkdust
  • "Buggy Wuggy in California" (1947), King Radio
  • "Caribbean Parkway" (1993), Chalkdust
  • "Cold in the Winter" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Far from Home" (2016), Calypso Rose
  • "Food From the West Indies" (1950), Lord Kitchener
  • "Get Out" (2020), Tobago Crusoe
  • "Gin and Coconut Water" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Guyanese Come Back Home" (1967), King Fighter
  • "Jamaica Farewell" (1966), Lord Creator
  • "London is the Place for Me" - "Windrush" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Lorraine" (1981), Explainer
  • "Mas in Brooklyn" (1969), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Me One Alone" (1956) , Lord Invader
  • "Nah Leaving" (2001), Denyse Plummer
  • "New York Subway" (1946), Lord Invader
  • "No More Taxi" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Nora" (1950), Lord Kitchener
  • "Not Tonight" (2014), Pink Panther
  • "Prodigal Son" (2013), Chalkdust
  • "Stay Home West Indians" (1959), King Fighter
  • "Sweet Jamaica" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Uncle Sam’s Policy" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "Underground Train (The)" (1950), Lord Kitchener
  • "Wahbeen and Grog" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "We Could Make it if we Try" (1987), Black Stalin
  • "West Indians in England" (1959), Azie Lawrence
  • "Windrush Coming Down" (2020), Clivus

National identity - Immigration

  • "Bad Kamawad" (1992), Mighty Pep
  • "Columbus Lied" (1989), Mighty Shadow
  • "False Papers" (2014), Bodyguard
  • "Immigration Problems" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "Indian Girls with Creole Names" - "Indian Women with Creole Names" - "Indian People with Creole Names" - Indians Adopting Creole Names (1950), Mighty Killer
  • "Indo Law Na Say So" (1959), Lord Inventor
  • "Landing of Colombus" (1926), Lord Executor
  • "Nah Leaving" (2001), Denyse Plummer
  • "Send Them Back" (1960), Lord Blakie
  • "Small Island" (1945), Lord Invader
  • "Too Botheration" (1938), Mighty Growler

National identity - Pride & hope

  • "A Nation 31 Years Old" (1994), Delamo
  • "As a Nation Forges On" (1988), Denyse Plummer
  • "Belle Trinidad (La)" 1937, Atilla the Hun
  • "Beautiful Land of Iere" (1938), Growling Tiger
  • "Change" (2018), Helon Francis
  • "Charming Trinidad" (1939), Roaring Lion
  • "Foreigner" (1978), Lord Nelson
  • "God Bless Our Nation" (1967), Lord Baker
  • "Great Nation" (2018), Myron B
  • "Holidays in Trinidad" (1967), Mighty Cypher
  • "I Am" (2019), Erphaan Alves
  • "I Believe" (2015), Chucky
  • "I Stand for Trinbago" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Jamaica is the Place to Go" (1955), Charlie Binger
  • "Land of the Humming Birds" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "Lend a Hand" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "National Pride" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "National Pride" (2002), Singing Sandra
  • "National Unity" (1996), Chalkdust
  • "Oh Land of Mine" (2006), Crazy
  • "Paradise" (2016), Helon Francis
  • "Paramaribo" (1937), Lord Caresser
  • "Sing for the Land" (1985), Black Stalin
  • "Soulful Calypso" (1977), Maestro
  • "Sweet Trinidad" (2009), Lord Funny
  • "They Can’t Beat We" (1989), Chalkdust
  • "This Land is Mine" (1990), Drupatee
  • "Trini to the Bone" (2003), David Rudder
  • "Vision of T&T in 2010" (1998), Mystic Prowler
  • "We Is We" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "We’re Ten Years Old" (1972), Chalkdust

News events - West Indies

  • "Abu Bakr Take Over" (1991) Preacher
  • "Ah Wo" (1980), Valentino
  • "Bandsman Shooting Case" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Bargee (The)" (1925), Sam Manning
  • "Barking Beef" (2005), Shalleika Hazell
  • "Beyond the Boundary" (1993), M’ba
  • "Black Miss Universe (The)" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Caroni Close Down" - "Caroni Close Dong" (2004), Adesh Samaroo
  • "Cipriani's and Bradshaw’s Death" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Claude" (2020), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Clause Four" (1987), Mighty Trini
  • "Cock Fight" (1969), Mighty SparrowKing Radio
  • "Country Club Scandal" (1933), King Radio
  • "Cubana Crash (The)" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "Curfew Time" (1971), Lord Kitchener
  • "Do you Want a Watchman" (1994), Watchman
  • "Doc Secret Wedding" - "The Doc’s Wedding" (1959), Growling Tiger
  • "Drama Island" (2011), David Rudder
  • "Duke and Duchess of Kent (1935), Atilla the Hun
  • "Dynamite" (1934), Lionel Belasco
  • "Fire Fire" - "Calypso Coup" (1991), Bally
  • "Freaking Streaking" (1980), The Mighty Duke
  • "Get Something and Wave" (1991), Superblue
  • "Good Will Flyers" (1934), Atilla the Hun
  • "Graf Zeppelin" (1934), Atilla the Hun
  • "Guest List (The)" (2020), Michelle Henry
  • "Hang Him" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Hosay Massacre (The)" (2021), George Rampersad
  • "Hoosay" (1991), David Rudder
  • "Is Butler Married" (1948), Atilla the Hun
  • "Jack" - "Dah Beach is Mine" (1982), Mighty Gabby
  • "Jamaica Hurricane" (1951), Lord Beginner
  • "Janelle ‘Penny’ Commissiong" (1978), Lord Kitchener
  • "Lieutenant Julian" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "Looting in B.G." (1962), Mighty Cypher
  • "Mama, Call the Fire Brigade" (1957), Houdini
  • "Maxi Dub" (1993), Bally
  • "Message to George Weeks" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Ministry of the Road" (2014), Machel Montano
  • "Not in Here" (2020), Duane O’Connor
  • "Not Martin" (2020), Makenda Marius
  • "Oh Grenada" (2014), Cro Cro
  • "Oil Cyar Spoil" (2019), Tamika Darius
  • "Out de Fire" (1957), Lord Flea
  • "Post Another Letter For Thelma" (1952), Mighty Spitfire
  • "Saga of the PRA" (1984), Valentino
  • "Say a Prayer for Abu Bakr" (1991), Cro Cro
  • "Skyscraper" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Some Came Running" (1976), Maestro
  • "Telco Poops" (1978), Mighty Penguin
  • "Traffic Jam" (1987), Gypsy
  • "Treasury Fire" (1933), Lord Beginner
  • "Tribute to Princess Margaret" (1958), Mighty Striker
  • "Trinidad Hurricane" (1933), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Vincent Brown the Magistrate" - "Kenneth Vincent Brown" (1930), Atilla the Hun
  • "We Shall Rise Again" (2005), Super P
  • "Welcome to Chinatown" (2020), Signing Sonia
  • "Who in de Zoo" (2012), Contender
  • "Wounded National Pride" - "Manningitus" (2011), Chalkdust

News events - World

  • "1990" (1990), David Rudder
  • "Aid Haiti" (2010), Kizzie Ruiz
  • "Ben Lion" (2002), André Tanker
  • "Birth of Ghana" (1956), Lord Kitchener
  • "Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (The)" (1953), Roaring Lion
  • "Crown Heights Justice" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "De Infidel" (2010), Short Pants
  • "Doh Touch Me President" (1999), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Double Ten" (1946), Lord Kitchener
  • "Down to the Bone" (1992), Cheryl & Colors
  • "Edward the VIII" - "King Edward the VIII" - "Love, Love Alone" (1937), Lord Caresser
  • "Festival of England" - "Festival of Britain" (1950), Lord Kitchener
  • "French President Visit Great Britain (The)" (1950), Preston Coleman
  • "His Majesty King George the 6th Coronation" (1937), Atilla the Hun
  • "I Was There at the Coronation" - "I was There" (1953), Young Tiger
  • "Innocent Jimmy" (1989), All Rounder
  • "Jonestown Massacre" (1979), Chalkdust
  • "Lieutenant Julian" (1928), Sam Manning
  • "Lindbergh Baby (The)" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Magistrate Try Yourself" - "Magistrate Try Himself" (1958), Mighty Spoiler
  • "Man on the Moon" (1969), Lord Cobra y Los Pana Afros
  • "Megan my Dear" (2020), Terri Lyons
  • "New Orleans" (2006), Brother Mudada
  • "New York City Blackout" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Nigerian Registration" (1955), Lord Kitchener
  • "O.J. Simpson" - "Juice Is Loose (The)" (1996), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Phillip My Dear" - "Man in de Bedroom" (1983), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Potatoe" (1993), David Rudder
  • "Prince Rainer" (1956), Lord Invader
  • "Professor Carver" - "Tribute to Professor Carver" (1943), Atilla the Hun
  • "Roosevelt Opens the World Fair" (1939) Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Royal Divorce" (1996), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Ruby" - "Missing Baby (The)" (1955), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Russian Satellite" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Shaka Shaka" - "Shaka" (1988), Bally
  • "Skylab" (1979), Charlie's Roots
  • "Tantie Merle" (1979), Chalkdust
  • "Terrorism Gone Wild" (1986), Calypso Rose
  • "War of Worlds" (2018), Ras Commanda

Politics - Before independence (West Indies)

  • "Abraham Lincoln Speech at Gettysburg" (1960), Growling Tiger
  • "Adrian Rienzi" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Britain, Give us our Freedom" (1950), Atilla the Hun
  • "Christmas Eve Night on Quarry Street" (1946), Atilla the Hun
  • "Class Legislation" (1920), Cromwell The Protector
  • "Cooks in Trinidad (The)" (1930), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Dalley's Report" (1948), Atilla the Hun
  • "Daniel Must Go" (1950), Growling Tiger
  • "Doctor Make your Love" (1959), Lord Melody
  • "Don’t Blame the PNM" (1958), Mighty Striker
  • "General Election" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Governor Jerningham" (1898), Lord Persecutor
  • "Governor’s Resignation (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Honorable Captain Cipriani" (1929), Lord Beginner
  • "I Ain’t Butler" (1938), King Radio
  • "King George’s Silver Jubilee" (1935), Lord Beginner
  • "Labour Situation in Trinidad (The)" (1939), Growling Tiger
  • "Leave the Dam Doctor" (1960), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Million Dollar Jail" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "Present Government" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Sedition Law" (1940), King Radio
  • "Water Scheme Workers" (1934), Growling Tiger
  • "We Mourn the Loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "We Want a Trinidadian" - "Cipriani" (1925), Lord Executor
  • "Wear Your Balisier" (1961), Mighty Sparrow

Politics - Federation (West Indies) - Caribbean Unity

  • "Capital Site" (1958), Lord Melody
  • "Caribbean Connection" (1988), Merchant
  • "Caribbean Unity" - "Caribbean Man" (1979), Black Stalin
  • "Cry of the Caribbean" (1992), Black Stalin
  • "Cry of the West Indies" (1968), Young Killer
  • "Expedite Federation" (1933), Atilla the Hun
  • "Federated Islands" (1956), Mighty Bomber
  • "Federation" (1951), Lord Beginner
  • "Federation" (1957), Lord Kitchener
  • "Federation" - "We Are as One" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Federation" - "What’s Federation" (1956), Small Island Pride
  • "Grenada Crisis" - "Grenada Must Join" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Montego Bay Conference" (1947), Atilla the Hun
  • "One Caribbean" (1994), David Rudder
  • "Referendum" - "Jamaican Referendum" (1962), Lord Laro
  • "Take Your Meat of my Rice" (1967), Lord Kitchener
  • "Trinidad Have Federation Already" (1956), Atilla the Hun
  • "West Indian Federation" (1937), Atilla the Hun

Politics - From independence (West Indies)

  • "3 Bo-Rats" (1988), Cro Cro
  • "A Nation’s Calypso" - "Our Nation’s Calypso" (1962), Lord Brynner
  • "Abu Bakr" (1991), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Advice to the Boss" (2016), Cro Cro
  • "Ah Can’t Bury Williams" - "I Can’t Bury Eric Williams",(1999), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Fraid Karl" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Lost Roy" (2002), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Put on Me Guns Again" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Ah Ready to Go" (1998), Sugar Aloes
  • "All Yuh Look for Dat" (1996), Cro Cro
  • "Aloo Sing" (2013), De Fosto
  • "Bad John Willie" (1980), Chalkdust
  • "Balance (The)" (2003), Mystic Prowler
  • "Balance Wheel" (1982), Calypso Rose
  • "Barking Dogs" (1973), Brother Valentino
  • "Better Days" - "Better Days Are Coming" (1984), Black Stalin
  • "Betty Goaty" (1982), Penguin
  • "Break Down Party" (1980), Black Stalin
  • "Bring the Ayatollah" - "Ayatollah" (1980), Chalkdust
  • "Boat Road" (2016), Myron B
  • "Boots" (1983), Mighty Gabby
  • "By Other Men’s Fault" (2016), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Call Dem Out" (2014), Brian London
  • "Call to Prayer (The)" (2017), Queen Victoria
  • "Chambers" (1980), Explainer
  • "Chamber Done See" (1985), Plain Clothes
  • "Chauffeur Wanted" - "New Driver Cannot Drive (The)" (1989), Chalkdust
  • "Check the Foundation" (2006), Luta
  • "Clear Your Name" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Crapeaud Revolution" - "Crapaud Revolution" (1981), Scrunter
  • "Deaf Panman" (1974), Lord Relator
  • "Dey Lucky Ah Have Children" (1988), Chalkdust
  • "Diary of a Mad Man" (2011), Calypso Prince
  • "Doctor Ent They" - "De Doctor Eh Dey" (1965), Lord Blakie
  • "Dread Man" (1976), Maestro
  • "Eric Loves Me" - "Eric William Loves Me" (1980), Chalkdust
  • "Eric Williams Dead" (1988), Chalkdust
  • "Eye Problem" (2010), Chalkdust
  • "F.D.A.T" (2014), Devon Seale
  • "Fishmonger" - "Chalkie the Fishmonger" (2004), Chalkdust
  • "Final Send Off" (2017), Cro Cro
  • "From Then to Now" (1987), Mighty Shadow
  • "Game Show Politics" (2013), Devon Seale
  • "Get to Hell Outa Here" - "Get to Hell Out" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Goat Mouth Doc" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "Good Driving" (1994), Luta
  • "Good Manning Mr Manning" (1992), Rootsman
  • "Grenada" - "Under Siege" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Grenada Man" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Guest List (De)" (2014), Chalkdust
  • "Honesty" (1966), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Hostage" (2017), Vigilanté
  • "I Carmona" (2017), Devon Seale
  • "I Eric Eustace Williams" (1982), Crusoe
  • "I in Town Too Long" (2005), Chalkdust
  • "I Love You" (2007), Maria Bhola
  • 'In Just Six Years" (2003), Skatie
  • "Independence" (1962), Mighty Dougla
  • "Independence" - "Trinidad and Tobago Independence" - "Independence Calypso" (1962), Lord Brynner
  • "Independent Jamaica" (1977), Lord Creator
  • "Jubilation" (2002), Sugar Aloes
  • "Just So" (2003), Chalkdust
  • "Kicksin in Parliament" (1979), Explainer
  • "Last Election" (1967), Mighty Cypher
  • "La Trinity" - "Don’t Cry for Me" (1990), Denyse Plummer
  • "Let the Games Begin" (2000), Brother Valentino
  • "Let the Jackass Sing" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Luta’s Advice" (2010), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Madness" - "St Ann’s" (1987), David Rudder
  • "Manning Must Go" (2010), Crazy
  • "Massa Day Must Done" - "Massa Day Must Done" (1974), Chalkdust
  • "Moo Moo Talking" (1996), Third Eye
  • "More Mad than Me" (2017), Myron B
  • "Mr Panday Needs Glasses" (1997), Watchman
  • "Mr Trinidad" (1974), Maestro
  • "My Corn Tree" (2017), Kurt Allen
  • "My Hart and I" (2009), Chalkdust
  • "My Humble Plea" (1985), Devon Seale
  • "My Way of Protest" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "New Portrait of Trinidad" (1972), Black Stalin
  • "No Winners" (2002), Denyse Plummer
  • "Not a damn Seat for Them" (1982), Lord Kitchener
  • "Not a Damn Seat for Them" (1982), Lord Pretender
  • "On Turning 50" (2012), Singing Sandra
  • "One Day" (1986), Natasha Wilson
  • "Only Games" (2018), Jahson I Am
  • "Our Model Nation" - "Model Nation" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Picture Picture" (2006), Skatie
  • "Plight of My People" (2017), Lady Gypsy
  • "PNM Loves Me" - "Somebody in PNM Loves me" (1973), Chalkdust
  • "PNM March" (1977), Lord Kitchener
  • "Political Lightning" (2012), Bunny B
  • "Political Sin Phony" (2013), Kurt Allen
  • "Political Wonder" (1970), Mighty Bomber
  • "Portrait of Trinidad" (1965), Mighty Sniper
  • "Positive Vibrations" (1990), Sugar Aloes
  • "Ram the Magician" - "Ram D’ Magician" (1984), Chalkdust
  • "Reflections" (2008), Sugar Aloes
  • "Reflections of Our Late Prime Minister" (1981), De Fosto
  • "Respect God’s Voice" (2016), Devon Seale
  • "Road Bad (The)" (2016), Chalkdust
  • "Road Protest" - "D’Asphalt" (2013), Mistah Shak
  • "Rose (The)" (1985), Chucky Gordon
  • "Rowley Letter (The)" - "Letter to Keith Rowley" (2003), Chalkdust
  • "Rowley Rowley" (2018), Tigress
  • "Sailing" (1987), Mighty Trini
  • "Selwin in the Garden Hiding" - "Adam in the Garden Hiding" (1996), Chalkdust
  • "Shango Vision" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "She’s Royal" (2012), Sugar Aloes
  • "Sinking Ship (The)" (1986), Gypsy
  • "Snake in the Balisier" (1983), Mighty Shadow
  • "Solomon Out" (1965), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Some Body Mad" - "Somebody Mad" (1973), Chalkdust
  • "Spranger’s Story (A)" (2013), Tobago Chalkie
  • "Steel Beam" - "We Like it So" (1981), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Strange Case of Madam Occhahontas and the Westminster Dreadlocks (The)" (1996), David Rudder
  • "Take a rest" (1980), Lord Relator
  • "Three Blind Mice" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "To Lloyd with Love" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "To Sir with Love" (1981), Maestro
  • "Too Bright" (2010), Kurt Allen
  • "Too Much Party" (2004), Chalkdust
  • "Trade Union" (1939), Growling Tiger
  • "Travel Woes" (2013), Pink Panther
  • "Trini Does Lie" (1986), Chalkdust
  • "Oh Trinidad" (1976), Lord Shorty
  • "Try Obeah" (1989), Chalkdust
  • "Tug O War Society" (2000), Chalkdust
  • "Two sides of a Shilling" (1971), Chalkdust
  • "Ungrateful Pastor" (2007), Bodyguard
  • "Vampire Year" - "Vampires" (1981), Black Stalin
  • "Vision 20/20" (2002), Karene Asche
  • "Vote Dem Out" (1986), Déplé
  • "Uncle Jack" (2011), Karene Asche
  • "Wajang" - "Yuh Ain’t See Wajang Yet" (2009), Tigress
  • "We’re Ten Year Old" (1972), Chalkdust
  • "We Doh Want It" (1992), Cro Cro
  • "We Kinda Leader" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Wey you Think" (2014), Chucky Gordon
  • "Wha Yuh Doing" (2017), Chucky Gordon
  • "When Elephant Fight" (2019), Gypsy
  • "When Mas Was Mas" (2010), Chalkdust
  • "Why ah Stay" (2000), Sugar Aloes
  • "Why I Left, Why I Returned" (1974), Lord Superior
  • "William the Conqueror" (1958), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Woman to Woman" (2011), Tigress
  • "Wrap Spoon and Fork in Napkin" (2019), Hunter

Politics - USA

  • "American Election" (1945), Atilla the Hun
  • "Barack the Magnificent" (2007), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Black Coffee" (2009), Lord Superior
  • "Death of Kennedy" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Jump for Jesse" (1988), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Kennedy and Khrushchev" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Martin Luther King" - "Tribute to Martin Luther King" (1968), Black Stalin
  • "Martin Luther King" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Martin Luther King for President" (1964), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Muhamed Ali" (1971), Samson the Lark
  • "Obama the First" (2009), Sugar Aloes
  • "One for Obama" (2009), Twiggy
  • "Watergate" (1973), Mighty Cypher
  • "Weapons of Mass Dis-Illusion" (2007), Mighty Sparrow

Politics - World (Other)

  • "Ayatollah" (1981), Mighty Sparrow
  • "B.G. War" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Burn Dem" (1992), Black Stalin
  • "Castro No not Trinidad" (1963), Lord Christo
  • "Cuba" (1994), David Rudder
  • "Democracy in Haiti" (1995), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Free South Africa" (1989), Mighty Shadow
  • "Haiti" (1988), David Rudder
  • "Heaven" (1995), David Rudder
  • "How Many More Must Die" - "How Many More" (1986), The Mighty Duke
  • "Idi Amin" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Invade South Africa" (1985), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Isms Schims" (1984), Black Stalin
  • "Isolate South Africa" (1982), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Leaders on the Run" (1987), Gypsy
  • "Lift the Iron Curtain" (1958), Lord Ivanhoe & his Caribbean Knights
  • "London Bridge" - "London Bridge is Falling Down" (1980), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Madiba" (2014), Singing Sandra
  • "More Come" (1986), Black Stalin
  • "Satan in Control" (1988), Gypsy
  • "Stay up Zimbabwe" (1979), Brother Valentino
  • "Tables Turning (The)" (1980), Explainer
  • "Undemocratic Rhodesia" (1971), Samson the Lark
  • "United Africa" (1963) - Black Stalin
  • "Victory is certain" (1991), David Rudder
  • "Vile Doctrine" (1964), Lord Brynner
  • "Wanted Dead or Alive" (1980), Mighty Sparrow
  • "We won’t Give Up" (1977), The Mighty Duke

Promotion / Advertising

  • "Bells (The)" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Coffee Coffee" (1945), Atilla the Hun
  • "Diamond T" (1945), Atilla the Hun
  • "Rum Is Macho" (1980), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Sa Gomes’ Emporium"' (1935), Keskidee Trio
  • "Toddy" (1929), Anonymous from Toddy Syndicate

Racial identity / Slavery

  • "42 Years Gone" (2005), Marvellous Marva
  • "101%" (2019), De Mighty Trini
  • "Africa" (1955), Lord Beginner
  • "Africa My Home" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "African Love Call" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "African War Call" - "African War Song" (1938) - Roaring Lion
  • "All African" (1971), Lord Superior
  • "Ambas Pons Marabella" - "Enba Pon Marabella" (1838), Anonymous (patois)
  • "Ambataila Woman" (1991), United Sisters
  • "Answer to Black Power" - "Answer for Black Power (The)" (1968), Chalkdust
  • "Belle Marie Coolie" - "Bèl Mawi Kouli" (1914), J. Resigina - aka Julian Whiterose
  • "Black Child’s Prayer" (1983), Chalkdust
  • "Black Identity" (1973), Maestro
  • "Black Inventions" (1979), Chalkdust
  • "Black is Beautiful" (1969), The Mighty Duke
  • "Black Power" (1971), Lord Kitchener
  • "Black Power in Trinidad" (1971), The Mighty Duke
  • "Body Parts" (1997), Trinidad Rio
  • "Children of a Lesser God" (2020), Crazy
  • "Crisis in Arkansas" (1959), Lord Invader
  • "Emancipation" (1933), Lionel Belasco
  • "Emancipation" (2018), Dunstan Carwash Lawrence
  • "Emancipation Centenary" (1933), Atilla the Hun
  • "Emperor of Africa (The)" (1954), Mighty Terror
  • "Ganges and the Nile" (1999), David Rudder
  • "Glorious Centenary" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "God Made Us All" (1947), Lord Invader
  • "Guardian Beauty Contest" (1955), Atilla the Hun
  • "Heart Transplant" (1969), King Short Shirt
  • "Heading North" (1958), Mighty Terror
  • "Hello Africa" (1977), Eddy Grant
  • "Human Rights" (1979), Mighty Shadow
  • "I owe no Apology" (1991), Mighty Sparrow
  • "If You’re Not White You’re Black" - "Black or White" (1953), Lord Kitchener
  • "Imitation Rasta" (1979), Funny
  • "Jahaji Bhai" (1996), Brother Marvin
  • "Jahaji Blues" (1997), Gregory Ballantyne
  • "Liberation" (1973), Valentino
  • "Love African Style" (1979), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Love One Another" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Memories of 1970" (1971), The Mighty Duke
  • "Message of 70's (The)" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "Mr. African" (1976), Explainer
  • "My Grandfather’s Backpay" - "Grandfather’s Backpay" - "Grandpa’s Pay Day" (1985), Chalkdust
  • "Mock Democracy" (1966), Lord Cristo
  • "Negro Heart" (1968), Lord Zebra
  • "No Freedom" (1970), Lord Kitchener
  • "No Revolution" (1971), Brother Valentino
  • "Nothing Come Easy" (1982), Black Stalin
  • "Phrase (The)" (2017), Terri Lyons
  • "Racism" (2007), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Raise your Head" (1979), Mighty Crooner
  • "Roaring Seventies (The)" (2013), Valentino
  • "Say my Name" (1997), Ella Andall
  • "Slave (The)" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Song for Healing" (1999), Singing Sandra
  • "Song for We" - "Sing ah Song for We" (2008), Brian London
  • "Sons and Daughters of Africa" (1952), Lord Beginner
  • "Split Me in Two" (1961), Mighty Dougla
  • "Still Colonial2 (2017), Meguella Simon
  • "Straight Hair Girl" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Sufferers" (2000), Black Stalin
  • "Sweet Like a Honey Bee" (1928), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Teach the Children" - "Teach Your Children" (1976), The Mighty Duke
  • "Theme for African Liberation" (1977), Chalkdust
  • "They Ain’t See Africa at All" - "They Ain’t African at All" (1984), Chalkdust
  • "Twentieth Century Greats" - "20th Century Greats" (1976), Chalkdust
  • "Uhuru" (1977), The Mighty Duke
  • "Um Ba Ya Oh2 - "Um Ba Yao" (1978)
  • "Unite African" (1990), Mighty Shadow
  • "White People Laughing at We" (1987), Chalkdust

Religion - Christian / Gospelypso

  • "Ezekiel Coming" (2017), Calypso Rose
  • "Fall of Man" (1936), Roaring Lion
  • "Go Down the Valley" (1935), Keskidee Trio
  • "His Holy Name" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
  • "I Am What I Am" (2017), Calypso Rose
  • "I Used to Be a Sinner" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Miracle of Jesus" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
  • "One Super Power" (2010), Tony Barclay
  • "Salvation" (1983), Blue Boy
  • "Salvation" (1994), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Sing for the Lord" (2010), Brother Mudada
  • "Soca Baptist" (1980), Blue Boy
  • "Temptation of Christ" (2003), Mighty Sparrow
  • "When the Roll is Called up Yonder" (1984), Chalkdust
  • "Who God Bless" (1978), Ras Shorty I
  • "Wisdom of Christ" (2003), Mighty Sparrow

Religion - Others

  • "Hard Hard Hard" (1986), Black Stalin
  • "Judge Me Not" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Om Shanti Om" (1979), Lord Shorty
  • "One Day of Prayer" (2004), Singing Sandra
  • "Power in Song" (2018), Singing Sandra
  • "Ras Mass" (1981), Explainer
  • "Rastaman" - "Rastaman Be Careful" (1979), Lord Melody
  • "Rastamania" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "True Colours" (2000), Singing Sandra

Shango / Folklore

  • "Bassman" (1974), Mighty Shadow
  • "Bongo" (1969), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Bongo Dance" (The) (1937) - The Growler
  • "Children Ting (The)" (1976), Mighty Shadow
  • "Devil Behind Me (The)" - "Leggo" (1940), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Jumbie Jamberee" - "Zombie jamboree" - "Back to Back" (1953), Lord Jellicoe (Also Lord Intruder)
  • "Jumbies" (1979), Mighty Shadow
  • "La Jobless" - "Labejeless Woman (The)" - "Lajobless Woman (The) - "Ladjablès"" (1938) - Lord Executor
  • "Love in the Cemetery" (1962), Lord Kitchener
  • "Mamie Water" (1955), Lord Kitchener
  • "Obeah" (2020), Terri Lyons
  • "Obeah Man" - "Take Me to the Obeah Man" (1979), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Pay the Devil" (1994), Mighty Shadow
  • "Return of the Bassman" (1984), Mighty Shadow
  • "Shango" (1938), Lord Caresser
  • "Shango" (1932), Roaring Lion
  • "Shango Man" (1967), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Soucouyant" (1985), Crazy
  • "Sucoyen" (1933), Roaring Lion
  • "Three Friends' Advice" - "My Three Friends' Advice" (1937), Lord Executor
  • "Through the Mirror" (1979), Mighty Shadow
  • "Trinidad Obeahman" (1929), Lionel Belasco
  • "Whap Cocoyea" (2004) Mighty Shadow
  • "Who Am I?" (2003), Sugar Aloes
  • "Witch Doctor" (1976), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Yoruba Shango" - "Yaraba Shango" (1935), Growling Tiger

Social commentaries - Others

  • "Accident Policy" (1976) Lord Funny
  • "Always Marry a Pretty Woman" (1946), Lord Beginner
  • "Better Days" (2018), Aaron Duncan
  • "Blaze de Fire" (2005), Bunji Garlin
  • "Class Language" (2009), Kizzie Ruiz
  • "Dog Better than Man" (1962), Mighty Viper
  • "Eat your Cake and Still Have It" (2007), Skatie
  • "Exploiting" (1938), Lord Caresser
  • "Good Time Pioneers" (2005), Brother Mudada
  • "I thank Thee" (1978), Calypso Rose
  • "More Times" (1979), Black Stalin
  • "No Front Page" (2018), Duane O’Connor
  • "Old Lady Walk a Mile" - "Old Lady Walk a Mile and a Half" (1951–1953), Lord Kitchener
  • "Philantropy" (2021), Crazy
  • "Ring de Bell" (1996), Brother Resistance
  • "Scratch Meh Back" (2000), Mighty Shadow
  • "Social Media" (2017), Lady Adana
  • "Suzie Jumbie" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Sudan" (2007), Singing Sandra
  • "That Good, That Bad" - "Dat Good, Dat Bad" (1990), Chalkdust
  • "White People’s Bacchanal" (1957), Mighty Viper
  • "Woman Woman" (1977), Cro Cro
  • "Wrong Name (De)" (2019), Sexy Suzie

Spirituality / Philosophy

  • "Ah Living Meh Life" (1962), Mighty Dougla
  • "Bring Down the Power" (2010), Ella Andall
  • "Clean Heart" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "Death Is Compulsory" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Hands" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "I Will Die a Bachelor" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "If ah Coulda" (2007), Mighty Shadow
  • "In Time to come" (2000), Crazy
  • "In Times" (1995), Black Stalin
  • "Journey" (1989), Tambu
  • "Journey of the Enabler" (2019), Singing Sandra
  • "Learn to Laugh" (1984), Chalkdust
  • "Life" (1988), Gypsy
  • "Life Is a Stage" (1972), Brother Valentino
  • "Lifeline" (1989), Ann Marie Inniss
  • "Look at the Bright Side" (1991), Black Stalin
  • "Love Thy Neighbour" (1937), Roaring Lion
  • "Man’s Imagination" (2019), Ronaldo London
  • "Never Ever Worry" (1961), Lord Pretender
  • "Never Hang Your Hat" (1967), Lord Christo
  • "People Will Talk" (1962), King Fighter
  • "Song for the People" (1991), Ella Andall
  • "Survival" - "Man Will Survive" (1992), Mighty Sparrow
  • "You Can’t Stop Pleasing People" (1959), Lord Commander

Sports - Cricket

  • "Alec Bedser Calypso" (1951–1953), Lord Kitchener
  • "Beyond a Boundary" (1993), MBA
  • "Blackwash" (1985), Roots Man
  • "Blood Money" (1986), Commenter
  • "Brian Lara" (1995), Watchman
  • "Constantine" (1929), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Cricket Champions" (1967), Lord Kitchener
  • "Cricket Song (The)" (1964), Lord Kitchener
  • "Denis Compton" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Four Lara Four" - "Laramania" (1995), Defosto
  • "Gavascar" (1972), Lord Relator
  • "Here Come the West Indies" (1994), David Rudder
  • "John Goddard" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Kerry Packer" (1978), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Kerry Packer Cricketers" (1978), All Rounders
  • "Knock Them Down" (1977), Maestro
  • "Legacy" (1995), David Rudder
  • "M.C.C. and the West Indies (the)" - "M.C.C. and Trinidad (The)" (1935), Lord Beginner & Atilla the Hun
  • "Mickey Cipriani’s Career" (1934), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Rally 'Round the West Indies" (1988), David Rudder
  • "Signal to Lara" (1995), Superblue
  • "Sir Garfield Sobers" (1966), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Smiling Eyes of Steel" (2000), David Rudder
  • "South Africa" (1983), Tobago Crusoe
  • "Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat" (1932), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Victory Calypso" - "Victory Test Match" - "Cricket, Lovely Cricket" (1950), Lord Beginner

Sports - Others

  • "ATO" - "Ato Boldon" (1996), G.B. (Gregory Ballantyne)
  • "Ato’s Gold" (1998), Denyse Plummer
  • "Crawfie" - "Crawford" - "Halsey Crawford with a Bullet" (1977), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Crawford is the Man" - "Halsey Crawford" (1977), Lord Kitchener
  • "Fighter" (2006), Maximus Dan
  • "Games" (2017), Heather MacIntosh
  • "Gold" (1976), Maestro
  • "Gold Coast Champion" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Granny" (1986), Natasha Wilson
  • "Javelin Jam" (2013), Mistah Shak
  • "Joe Louis" (1938), Lord Caresser
  • "Joe Louis Calypso (The)" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • "Joe Louis Schmelling Fight" (1939), Mighty Growler
  • "Is Only Sports" (1995), Kurt Allen
  • "Keep Fit" - "Keep Fit Man" (1983), All Rounder
  • "Keshorn" - "Javelin Champion (The)" (2013), Eunice Peters
  • "Louis Schmeling Fight" (1937), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion (duet)
  • "Mannie Dookie" (1935), Growling Tiger
  • "Muhammad Ali" (2002), Mr. Calypso
  • "Play Ball" (1960), Lord Christo
  • "Randolph Turpin's Victory" (1951), Lord Kitchener
  • "Road to Italy" (1989), Superblue
  • "World Cup" (1976), Maestro

Tabanca / Love / Jealousy

"Tabanca, tabanka, tabankca, tobanca (n) (Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad): A painful feeling of unrequited love, from loving someone who does not love in return, especially someone who was once a lover or spouse."

  • "After Carnival" (1980), Lord Kitchener
  • "Art of Making Love" (1973), Lord Shorty
  • "Bacchanal Lady" (1988), David Rudder
  • "Beef and Bone" (1934), Atilla the Hun
  • "Caroline" (1950), Roaring Lion
  • "Come Le We Go Sookie" (1964), King Fighter
  • "Come Mama Come" (1929), King Radio
  • "Dey Washing Deir Mouth on Me" - "They Washing Mouth on Me" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Doggie Doggie Look Bone" (1932), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion
  • "Doh Back Back" (1984), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Doh Horn Meh" (1980), The Mighty Duke
  • "Dorothy" (1934), Atilla the Hun & Roaring Lion
  • "Dotish Married Man" (1963), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Elsie" (1939), King Radio
  • "Everytime I Pass" (1909), Fitzie Bone-Eye
  • "Fan Me Saga Boy" (1945), Roaring Lion
  • "Gloria" (2001), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Going Home Tonight" (1966), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Guadeloupe Chick" (1979), Crazy
  • "Jenny" (1981), Lord Nelson
  • "Jimpy’s Ingratitude" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Johnny Take my Wife" (1939), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Last Train to San Fernando (The)" - "Last Train" (1950), The Duke of Iron
  • "Love Me Emily" - "Emily" (1939), Atilla the Hun
  • "Madeleine Oy" (1953), Vivian Comma
  • "Malic Wedding Scandal" (1962), King Solomon
  • "Marajhin" (1981), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Marajhin Sister" (1983), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Maria" (1962), Lord Blakie
  • "Margarita" (1983), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Martiniquan" - "Martinquen" (1937), Atilla the Hun
  • "Matilda" (1938), King Radio
  • "My Girl Mabel" (1941), King Radio
  • "My Indian Girl Love" (1939), Lord Executor
  • "Neighbour Neighbour" (1981), Eddy Grant
  • "No Nora Darling" - "Nora" - "Nora Darling" (1937), Roaring Lion
  • "No Woman No" (1986), Black Stalin
  • "Raja Rani" (1986), Baron
  • "Romeo" (1057), Lord Melody
  • "Rose" (1961), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Roti & Dhalpouri" (1989), Sugar Aloes
  • "Rum Till I Die" (2003), Adesh Samaroo
  • "Same Time Same Place" (1973), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Senorita Panchita" (1939), Growling Tiger
  • "Stella" (1963), Lord Nelson
  • "Sugar Bum Bum" (1978), Lord Kitchener
  • "Tabanca" (2000), Denyse Plummer
  • "Take Your Bundle and Go" (1962), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Tan Tan" (1990), Mighty Shadow
  • "Tell Me Why" (2013), Baron
  • "Trust Yu Wife" (1985), The Mighty Duke
  • "Wastin’ your Time" - "You Wasting your Time" (1960), Mighty Power
  • "Way Way Out" (1999), Mighty Shadow
  • "Wood in de Fire" (1959), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Young Girl’s Touch" (1935), Atilla the Hun & Lord Beginner

War - Up to end of World War II

  • "Admiral Graf Spee (The)" (1940), Atilla the Hun
  • "Adolf Hitler" (1941), Mighty Destroyer
  • "Advantage Mussolini" (1936), Roaring Lion
  • "Air Raid Shelters" (1943), King Radio
  • "Argos Papers" (1918), Lord Inventor
  • "Black Market" (1945), Lord Beginner
  • "Boer War" (1900), Duke of Marlborough
  • "Britain Will Never Surrender" (1941), Mighty Growler
  • "Carnival Again" (1939), Lord Executor
  • "Chamberlain Says Peace" (1938), Lord Beginner
  • "Chinese Never Had a V.J. Day" - "Lay Fung Lee" - "Chinese Calypso" - "Chinese Memorial" - "Lai Fook Lee" (1948), Lord Kitchener
  • "Civil War in Spain" (1938), Growling Tiger
  • "Ethiopian War Drums" (1935), Wilmoth Houdini
  • "Fall of France" (1941), Mighty Growler
  • "Farmer and Breadfruit Tree" (1943), Mighty Growler
  • "Germany Invade Poland" (1939), King Radio
  • "Gold of Africa (The)" (1936), Growling Tiger
  • "Hitler" (1939), Lord Ziegfield
  • "Hitler Demanded Trinidad" (1940), Lord Invader
  • "Hitler Demands" (1939), Mighty Growler
  • "Hitler’s Attitude" (1940), Roaring Lion
  • "Hitler's Mistake" (1940), Roaring Lion
  • "Hitler’s Moustache" (1941), Lord Invader
  • "Horrors of War (The)" (1938), Atilla the Hun
  • "Housewives" (1950), Lord Beginner
  • 'How Hitler Invaded Poland' (1939), Lord Ziegfield
  • "Invasion of Britain" (1941), Atilla the Hun
  • "Invasion of Poland (The)" - "Poland, Poland" (1940), Roaring Lion
  • "Kaiser William, Run your Run" (1918), Lord Inventor
  • "Let Them Fight for Ten Thousand Years" - "Let the White People Fight" (1939), Growling Tiger
  • "Nazi Spy Ring" (1940), Mighty Growler
  • "Norah the War Is Over" (1946), Lord Beginner
  • "Ode to Russia" (1944), Atilla the Hun
  • "Poppy Day" (1938), Lord Executor
  • "Red Cross Society (The)" (1941), Atilla the Hun
  • "Reply to Englishman" (1944), Atilla the Hun
  • "Rise of the British Empire" (1940), Roaring Lion
  • "Roosevelt’s Election" (1941), Atilla the Hun
  • "Run Your Run Hitler" (1940), Lord Beginner
  • "Sauerkraut Calypso" (1956), Herbert Howard
  • "Selassie Is Held by the Police" (1937), Lord Caresser
  • "Send Hitler to St. Helena" (1940), Atilla the Hun
  • "Two Bad Men in the World" (1939), Lord Executor
  • "Warning to Russia (A)" (1950), Mighty Viking
  • "Winston Churchill" (1941), Roaring Lion

Wars - Post World War II

  • "Children World" (1987), Chalkdust
  • "Chinese Love Affair" (1970), Mighty Sparrow
  • "Hydrogen Bomb (The)" (1954), Mighty Terror
  • "My Lai Incident (The)" (1970), The Shah
  • "Peace in de World" (1987), Black Stalin
  • "Send Me Instead" (1968), King Fighter
  • "Stop D War" (2008), Singing Sandra
  • "War Mongers" (1988), Johnny King

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Articles

  • Best, Earl. "What’s in a Name-Pt2: Black Power, Calypso, Soca and Pumpkin Vine.", Wired 868.
  • Borgerson, Janet & Jonathan, Schroeder. "Calypso confusion", The MIT PRESS Reader.
  • Bowles, Paul. "Calypso - Music of the Antilles". Modern Music, 1940, 17/3 154-159
  • Brown Boy in the ring. "Carnival culture: Lord Kitchener to Machel Montano". March 22, 2007
  • Dowrich-Phillips, Laura. "7 calypsoes that kept us entertained with hot topics of the day".
  • Ferreira, Jo-Anne S. Hodge, Nnamdi. "Patois in calypso". Montray Créyol, 2015.
  • Ramm,Benjamin. "The subversive power of calypso music" BBC Culture, October 11, 2017.
  • Rohlehr,Gordon. "A scuffling of Islands: The dream and reality of Caribbean unity in poetry and song - Roseau to Montego Bay", The Integrationist Caribbean, 2007.
  • Unknown. "'16 great calypso songs for teaching", Study Assistant .
  • Unknown. "'A chronology of selected songs by Mighty Sparrow that address social, political and topical themes".
  • Unknown. "Celebrating our Calypso monarchs 1939–1980 T&T - History through the eyes of calypso". Trinidad & Tobago government, 2015/07.
  • Unknown. "The golden age of Calypso". Musical Traditions, number 4, 1985.

Audio

  • Calypso Dreams (CD). In for a penny, in for a pound, LLC. Ice Music, Ltd. 2009.
  • Calypso - Musical poetry in the Caribbean (1955 - 69) (CD). Soul Jazz records. 2014.
  • Calypsos from Trinidad - Politics, intrigue & violence in the 1930s (CD). Arhoolie Prod., Inc. 1991.
  • Melody vs. Sparrow - A friendly calypso feud (CD). Erasmus Black Records. 19 June 2020.

External links

  • Calypso Monarchs Hall of Fame
  • Calypsography
  • Calypsonians 1900 - 2018
  • Top 100 Calypsos of the 20th Century
  • Trinidad & Tobago Calypsonians

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of calypsos with sociopolitical influences by Wikipedia (Historical)