Obeah Wedding - Sparrow's most beautiful melody - so
uncharacteristically beautiful that there are persistent
rumours that it wasn't his.
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The singer watches Melda's attempts to snare him into marriage.
He slags her persistence, her hygiene and now her attempt to
enlist the aid of the local Obeah Man, to provide spells and charms
to induce the lazy, complacent singer to marry her.
The story literally unfolds, as the initial impression of silly
Melda surrounding his bed with lavender candles and gris-gris
gives way to the realization that she is his mistress and
bed-partner who wants a promotion to bride and wife.
It takes on a more universal character then. You could imagine
a twentyish girl at the new-age candle shop, planning
just the right spell to get her "roommate" to be her "husband".
There is a Runyonesque twist at the end. I used to think
calypso was just Harry Belafonte and cruise-ship acts.
Sparrow takes it much further, and deeper and closer to its origins,
while bringing it to the modern age.
He is a rough contemporary of Little Richard and still plays live
now and then.
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