You fill us all with pride

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Dear Editor,

The following are the lyrics to the song You Fill Us All With Pride, written by Joan Andrea Hutchinson in tribute to Jamaica’s athletes:

Jamaican Spirit, with a heart of gold

Athletes so strong, so proud and bold

Uniting Jamaicans wherever they are

Jamaica’s sun, Jamaica’s stars

The blazing and amazing, Jamaican team

Fulfilling for all, the Jamaican dream

The world celebrates, Jump and shout

We name Jamaican, everybody, chat bout

An when mi look and see a how yuh do you ting ting

How you light up the place with you Jah-Zwing zwing

Pride and joy inna mi heart a weh yuh bring bring

An pon yuh chest, a weh dem put yuh bling

You spread your wings, your spirit cannot hide

You run your race with God as your guide

Green black and gold the victory in your stride

You fill us all with pride

Sometimes when you bolt out of the block block

Is like the rest of dem a dead from shock shock

You have the talent the speed and the strength

Fi gi di whole a dem a good donkey length

Dem want fi know a how you train and what you eat, eat

A di cassava and di yam meck yuh dweet, dweet

But that a fi wi secret so meck them fret

Because they aint seen nothing yet

An when mi look and see a how yuh do you ting ting

How you light up the place with you Jah-Zwing zwing

Pride and joy inna mi heart a weh yuh bring bring

An pon yuh chest, a weh dem put yuh bling

Joan Andrea Hutchinson

joanahutchinson@yahoo.com