Pluto Shervington - Ram Goat Liver

[SS3Mania]

3 people are white people

[ZIONHIGHER]

@SS3Mania LOL

[slatan420]

@SS3Mania your dumb

[agnesvalova]

@SS3Mania that hurt.

[lowKut]

I grew up with tune like this in Guyana...29 years later and it still booming.  Best song ever!!

[teeand1925]

lovely bass

[clutchill]

What a tune!!!! Used to sing this one back to back with Shaving Cream with my cousin all day long!!!!

[ter1955]

great old reggie music love it

[grubashu]

can anyone post lyrics from the choros? :)

rasta

thank you

[Blz7845]

@grubashu

"Ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water

Billy goat teeth mek the earring for you daughter

Curried goat lunch put de bite in your bark

It mek you daughter ... It mek you daughter walk and talk"

[KronosTheDeejay]

Pure greatness

[edelightful1]

I mek de daughter walk and tark. Rythm!

[LadyGds]

A whole 10 years b4 mi born dis song did ah lick! Big tune. Reminds me of mi farda. I can jus see him busin ah skank now! Lol x BIG!

[ZIONHIGHER]

@LadyGds Bless Up !!!!!!!

[tristanm5]

someone wanna explain what this songs about

[blakbeltjonez]

@tristanm5

song is about a guy on a minibus in Kingston, bus hits a goat, the riders exit the bus and begin to scrape together the ingredients to make mannish water (the soup made from "goat parts", very popular for a man's "stamina"). our hero gets his share, then goes to hitch a ride - however, intestinal distress has come upon him and he pretty much has to shit himself right there, "out-a-road"... to the bemusement of onlookers.

moral: you will pay dearly for your ill-gotten gains!

[blakbeltjonez]

but the tune is all in fun, many of Pluto's best songs are slightly outrageous although maybe not impossible, especially in JA.

the story goes that Pluto was working as a writer and artist for Federal/Wildflower at the time, fellow songwriter Ernie Smith came to work one day and told him about seeing a bus hitting a goat - i don't recall whether the bus riders got off and cooked the goat.... that might have been Pluto's embellishment.

it was his breakthrough hit for 1974, big big tune.

[sirtophamhatt]

@blakbeltjonez thanks for this explanation! great lyric, incredible song, beautiful music. thanks ZIONHIGHER for posting this.

[ZIONHIGHER]

@sirtophamhatt YOUR WELCOME

[sigma9570]

im sitting here on my own, my father usedto play this tune every sunday browning chicken and smoking a big head, he has passed 5 years and my heart is stil broken big up GEORGE HENNINGHAM XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXXXXXX

[mikhail876]

A must pluto X gal dislike a song yah!!lol haha

[runningraidfive]

Here is a rather unlikely version from Iceland of all places:

/watch?v=B-PvHsCl8Wc

Before you laugh, check out this tune from the same crew...

/watch?v=sGoP1lEHPZ4

[leslietee183]

mannish wata and curry goat bad!!!!!!! but consume in small amounts if you're a virgin lol

[MsTkhan]

i just read that mannish water is considered an aphrodisiac and hence what this song is talking about in the chorus. once again, there goes my childhood innocence

[somuchsoul]

wow i didnt know this song was so old. I rememeber listenin to this alot growin up as a kid though. still love it

[wcgator1996]

being a young boy from the US, i didnt know half the words. Once i knew, curry goat lunch really puts that bite in your bark!

[col2269wf]

yeah, reggae was gr8 in the 70's

[7477238]

Haha damn I didn't think anyone would put this on YT. THANKS!

[8ether8]

Wicked.....I was 13 in '74 and sang this song at a beach bash with a cool band on a dare....Reduit Beach, St Lucia West Indies....and heard it again live in Toronto done by another happening band - The Hoping Penguins from Halifax....needless to say we became great friends.....anybody got lyrics?.......................­.......randall

[AnkhMusicLover]

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAWD!!!!!!i dead

[Hafsteinn22]

Icelandic cover -> youtube.com/watch?v=B-PvHsCl8W­c&feature=related

[fyahlord1]

give thanks fi Pluto eeh,bless Zionhigher

[xdeville1]

track to slowww adjusted x)

[nasalinval]

takes me back in time. and still has the same effect

[dj2zion]

Forward, forward! puuullup dat tune! it bad no bohmbo!

[txinpum]

BIG TUNE&GREAT INFO BELOW THIS WORDS.

NUFF RISPECKT FI DI ROCKER'S SOUND!!!

[Cocothekitten]

Oh gawd I feel old! I remember as little girl performing this for my mum and dad

[english5050]

For years I been telling myself and ppl that this is Ernie Smith..lol

my bad..i guess you never too old to learn.

[mongooseboy19]

Absolutely adore this tune!

[arielandflounder]

yeh man

[miahdibes3]

CHUUUUUUUNE

[WaryRox]

Guyanese bigging-up Pluto. I love you, Baby!

[1789parisfrance]

Wow!!! It's been ages since I heard this song!

[1339LARS]

Use headphones, (good ones) turn the volume up til your eardrums meet in the middle of your head, and enjoy!!

[mikemike2200]

Good song

[feustelfan]

Does anyone of you know "Kindin Einar"

by Hjalmar"? It's an ICELANDIC cover

version of this song - too funny!

[danejahdane24]

bung bang bang i know this track is way older than me but i can bet 9 out 10 my age dont know it so im proud

[raathid]

this was my dads favorite song. i heard it all the time as a youth man traveling with him. I miss hm dearly...RIP daddy.

[freethequeen]

@raathid lovely words, mate.

[SeelandSkinhead]

This is true music! Bring back the good 'ol days.

[bigsylelectrics]

True true reggae, bring back the ole time days

[powerbroker3000]

Classic man - I was a little boy when it came out

[richie2nice]

Ram goat liver is good to make manish water(goathead soup). billy goats teeth makes the earing for your daughter. curry is good lunch, it puts the bite in your bark- it makes your daughter walk and talk.

want more? give a thumbs up.

[blakbeltjonez]

Ram goat liver good fe make mannish water

Billy goat teeth mek de earring fe yuh daughtah

Curry goat lunch put de bite inna yuh bark

It mek yuh daughtah walk and talk!

for those that might not know, mannish water is a soup of various goat leftover parts (liver, nuts, whatever) that

many Jamaican men believe gives them "stamina" and enhanced virility... and "daughter" is often a euphemism for a girlfriend/mistress.... so it was mildly risque for the times.

[richie2nice]

Translation- Sunday gone, i jumped on a mini bus. I was really late but it wasnt my fault. and when we hear the preach by the terminus*(not 2 sure). I feel the bus come to a hault. we hit a ram goat by the round about. but as if that could not suffice, a brother runs to the bus and starts to shout, it should have died so we could buy a pound of rice.

[richie2nice]

*i hear it now. -its when we nearly reach at the teminus

[876234ABC]

@richie2nice When we NEARLY REACH BY THE TERMINUS (bus station)...no preaching!

[Kwekwe]

@richie2nice good translation, terminus is the place where all the buses stop and take another set of passenger beginning a new journey

[jgkent1957]

pluto wot a man a legand a true genious

[aoxomoxoa88]

Proper reggae!

[ya2121]

hah, im white, but my mum went to a school full of jamaican girls, and she showed me this song, i think its brilliant. i sort of understand too ^^

[queenocrafts]

I am THRILLED to hear this song again - I had the record as a youth and was a Jamaican dancin' fool. I lOOOOVE this song. Thank you SO MUCH!!

I'd like to know if others 'understand' it!?

[876234ABC]

@queenocrafts I know every word by heart!

[shinding75]

FANTASTIC man! I am Guyanese but appreciate all Jamaican classics like these. Thanks.

[TerryMarineBMF]

Angie i luv u

yeah it duppy gunman riddim

ROCKSTEADY!!!

[phillipmorris153]

It is great to know we can all RESPECTFULLY disagree on a theme/topic as HUMAN BEINGS conducted with a civil tongue. I will ALWAYS RESPECT the right of a man/woman to differ amongst their view points - with CLASS and HONOR! TOO MANY people come on these boards and solidify the stereotypes for the racist that are amongst us. Let's stop the black on black hate - from ANY island or country.

[ann2kareem]

great song. I heard it last summer and played it over and over until I finally understand it. What a voice...love it...I image a cool breeze, a clear beach and tall coconut trees...it may not make me walk and talk but it sure make me happy

[benniebenbenny]

No disrespect intended but...

My comment meant that if I was born in the 70's, I'd be too young to recognize the song. I was in my teens when this tune and "Duppy Gunman" came out.

Cheers.

[phillipmorris153]

Benniebenbenny, with ALL due respect if I was born in 1962 in England and immigrated to the US with Jamaican born parents here when I was 6 years old (so that would be 1968 - 10 years old) then I too would be in my "teens in the 1970"s) and DO and will ALWAYS "recognize" this song as you stated. So the reason for my writing this - and I have NEVER bothered to write or respond to anything or ANYONE on the internet before, but HAD to respond when I saw the "time line" you pointed out.

[ZIONHIGHER]

Cool info

[phillipmorris153]

Zionhigher, I appreciate your feedback. I just have to point out to Benniebenbenny that to say you would be "too young to recognize the song", how would that be if I were in my teens also and know about the song because of my grandparents mailing tunes to keep us updated as they would fill up the juke box in there store in Catadupa.

[Talk2kcab]

@phillipmorris153

yuh kno bout Marchmont road ( Marchy), lol, mi kno bout Catta, lol

[ajustso1]

Just mellow tunes from Ja of the 70's...irie man!

[nowheelspin]

it mek u datah wahk an tahk haha!

[benniebenbenny]

Ram Goat Liver and Dat are both by Pluto Shervington.

Duppy Gunman is by Ernie Smith.

I grew up in Ja. in the sixties. I should know :-)

[ajustso1]

This song was in the 70's

[warminator]

Unforgetable tune. And i always get hungry when i hear dis.

[seadoggiedog]

too sweet

[naciamaJYute]

"The news spread fast like a telegram!" LOL

Bwoy mi kinna young but mi woulda give anything fi live ina dat deh Jamaica again. Life a race too fass fi mi yah now.

[theEAJ5]

Bomba claaat, I was in JA '74!

[876234ABC]

@theEAJ5 Me too!

[kissteetdehyah]

Bombleet !!!! Memories........*singing* ^o^

[Jamaipanese]

this is Ernie smith

[theEAJ5]

His hit was Duppy Gun Man in the same year.

[olh1152]

No it is pluto. If you grew up in Jamaica back in the 70's you would know both pluto, ernie, and eric donaldson, byron lee etc.

[876234ABC]

@Jamaipanese No, it is Leighton "Pluto" Shervington singing. He wrote this song, it is his "breakout" song. He tells a story about how he wrote this song on the day one his children learned to walk. It was a life-changer for him.

[karabella]

btw this is Ernie smith

[phillipmorris153]

For EVERYONE in "doubt"; for God sake LOOK/READ that actual blue record label as to WHO the ACTUAL & CORRECT artist/singer is = Pluto Shervington. That is why many people say they don't trust a "jury of there peers"; when the "evidence" is so PLAIN to SEE! Thank you.

[karabella]

CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE

[wexford72]

Brraaapppp!!!

[magiclard]

It make ya dartaar, waak an taak! Genius.

[dzefczu]

ram goat liver good fi mek manish wata

[eamcas67]

this sounds different to the version I remember - more roots and the better for it.

[chadsexinton]

they used to play this in the bus on my way to school. brings back memories.

[karibgial]

Brings back memories of childhood. Sweeeet. This is music!

[natyboops]

A song about lickrishness and ravinousness! Wha sweet goat mout will run 'e belly!

[TerryMarineBMF]

Angie!!! Angie!!!

is it u baybee?

i luv u

[ggalland]

this brings back some great memories for me. thanks!

[splashy44]

i just luv dis guys tone of phrase..wicked!

[oliver8758]

this is a song from my youth in St Vincet. i love it

[Glidinatt]

Anyone got Ras Mas?

[tanyaakamusafa]

luv this 1 really great

[TheBrownBrigade]

So much good feeling comes listening to the iriginals. Unity, Peace and love for all!

[ZincBoss]

The original JA label too!

[ZincBoss]

When I went to JA in '74 this was a big hit plus Play de Music which was the festival winner.

[blakbeltjonez]

yep, that was Tinga Stewart, Pluto covered it too - it was a big tune, i think Tinga's was on the Wildflower label as well. i always thought that the sound of Federal Studios was the equal of Channel One or anybody else, but they were downplayed because of being too "uptown" with artists like Pluto and Ernie Smith...... back then you could go to the Pegasus or Courtleigh Manor hotels and see acts like Pluto or the old Inner Circle (pre-Jacob Miller) play live!

[Ghengiseanie]

I had the shorter version on here faved and added this. I discovered it at the famed "Ravi Club" in Leicester sneaking in aged 15 to play pool with the old dreads and that. I have never lost a game of pool when this song or "Shanice I love your msile" are on.. :P

[ZIONHIGHER]

Thanks 4 the info.

[ntner]

absolute classic....

Should be in its own catagory

"Folk Reggae"

Pluto ranks with Ernie, Max, and the rest.

[manitoba1]

I have the record, over thirty years i loved this song; Listen to shaving cream too. I am having curry goat tonight!

[SweetnezzRealism]

ram goat liver good fi mek mannish water

billy goat teet mek di earrin fuh yuh daughta

curry goat lunch put d bite in yuh bark

it mek yuh daughta, it mek yuh daughta walk and talk!!

vintage rockers are the truth!! :)

[ZIONHIGHER]

4 real.

[RomeoRubberLegs]

I hav me a man pal whom tinked him guitar in Pluto's band man but him get de sack soon man - for playin too many dem down strokes cross him strings man!

[ZIONHIGHER]

Thanks 4 the info.

[markymarcus1]

what a track, classic

[ZIONHIGHER]

You said it.

[WiNiGuRl]

This is such a cool song.

[ZIONHIGHER]

4 Real,thanks for the comment.

[clanccy]

This is Pluto Shervington.....No one else on this track.

[ZIONHIGHER]

How yes This is 'PLUTO'

[123gogary]

This sounds very similar to Pluto shevrington's voice

[ZIONHIGHER]

Right.

[CongaDread]

That's cuz it is!

The label only credits "Pluto" though.

[clanccy]

It is Pluto Shervington..... :-)

[reaggaedawn]

Me Too Nora :-)

Nice one ZIONHIGHER x Thanx x

[ZIONHIGHER]

Thanks.

[noradean]

i havent herd this in sooo long,

this is so cool, luv it,

remember all the words too!!!

[ZIONHIGHER]

Your welcome,thanks.