King Austin - Progress video free download

Possibly the greatest calypso ever made... Thanks to Winsford "Joker" Devine for the excellent composition....

This song is just as relevant now as it was then and we as a people should heed its message before it is too late....

Enjoy brothers and sisters....

"Today as I look around in the

world what do I see?

I see.

Footprints that man has left

On the sand

While walking through time.

I see,

Fruits of our ambitions

Figments of our imaginations

And I ask myself

When will it end

When will it end

It is plain to see

Universally,

This land is not bountiful as it was

Simply because

In his quest for success

Nothing stands in man's way

Old rivers run dry

Soon the birds won't fly

The mountains will be no longer high

And I wonder why?

I see

Charity deplored

Equal rights

Totally ignored

Wisdom and ingenuity

working in accord

Simply to afford such inventions

As thermonuclear warfare

And environmental warfare

And I wonder now

Where do we go from here

Prophets everywhere

Gaze upon the horizons

And declare that judgment will come

As the savage hands of

unscrupulous men

Defile everything passing by

Time is running out

As we eat and drink

Species on the brink

Of being extinct

And I think

No one can deny

The price of progress is high

I see consciousness abate

As today,

We live recklessly

Money

Makes egos inflate

And, thereby, creates,

A turbulent state.

I see a struggle

Between the sexes

New hang-ups and old complexes

Now the question is

Right in context

What shall be next?

I have already seen

The world has become divided

Between race, colour, creed and class

And some of the things

The scriptures predict

Truthfully come to pass

Soil that wouldn't bear

Children making children

To be part of this growing mass

And I ask

If this is progress

How long will it last?"