Trini Christmas Cake

Song Info:

Track 04 from the EP Sesaon of Night and Light 2025

Composer: Paul Gallagher

Musician: Paul Gallagher (piano, voice and programming)

Production: Faroogh Noori

Cover Art: AI image based on photo by Paul Gallagher

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"Trini Christmas Cake - you have to love that cake"

Upbeat Trini parang celebrates black Christmas cake, pastilles, wine and ham. Blending soca and calypso elements, featuring funky rhythms, guitars, wild pianos, pan drums and festive percussion the mood is joyful, nostalgic, and celebratory. A lively Caribbean party energy, family gatherings, laughing and dancing under swaying palms and dangling Christmas lights.

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Trini Christmas Cake

Intro

Half moon in the sky

Way up North of 49

Toronto way, it’s cold outside

Near zero, there might be snow

Trini Christmas on my mind

Chorus

Trini Cake, Black Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make

Cake so heavy it gives me backache

I wanna piece of Trini Cake

Verse

Finally the jet touch down

Crazy taxi ride, into town

Meeting Auntie Asha and Uncle Edwin

Christmas lights all around

Verse

Palm trees soca in the breeze

Parang from the beach

Parang from the back yard

No one can fall asleep

Verse

Christmas time, fresh up time

New brushes and cans of paint

Uncle and Aunty hang new curtains

We’re gonna decorate

Chorus

Trini Cake, Black Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make

Cake so heavy it gives me backache

I wanna piece of Trini Cake

Verse

Early morning

One by one

Cousins in the kitchen

Assembly line, hand over hand

Make pastilles then cook the ham

Verse

Me and Uncle Edwin

Start to clean the porch

Friends lean over the front yard fence

Just like parrots, to watch

Verse

Out comes the wine

And out comes the rum

Bring out the cuatro, bottle and spoons

Looks like the cleaning, the cleaning

The cleaning won’t get done too soon

Chorus

Trini Cake, Black Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make

Cake so heavy it gives me backache

I wanna piece of Trini Cake

Verse

6 PM and Christmas lights

Are shining so bright

Christmas stockings on the palm tree

And everything is alright

Verse

Far off dogs bark and announce

The Parrandero begins

Start the chak chak, guitars and toc toc

Parang all night long

Verse

Call the neighbours

Dancing and laughing

We’re gonna sing-along

Tables full pastelles

Roti, pork and rum

Verse

It’s Christmas time, Christmas time

Limin’, limin’ all night long

It’s Christmas time, Christmas time

Limin’, limin’ all night long

Outro

Rum it up, spice it up

Love it up non stop

Dancing and singing

Cooking and cleaning

‘Till we can’t stand

Don’t warm it up

Just start it up

Rum and punch a créme

I wanna piece of Christmas Cake

Trini Cake, Black Christmas Cake

Chorus

Trini Cake, Black Christmas Cake

I know it took so long to make

Cake so heavy it gives me backache

I wanna piece of Trini Cake

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