Tactical, Technical, Tenacious Tacky

By Ansell Palmer (RasPadaItion)

Tel: 887-1460

Tactical, technical, tenacious Tacky

Spiritually physically yu tek care of everbody

Mystical, magical, marvelous tacky

Yu pray and yu fight fi mek your people happy

Handsome black man broad lip and head nappy

First father of the nation him a all a wi daddy

 From Africa he came somewhere near Guinea

A proud black king of the Ashanti 

African royalty couldn’t bow to slavery

So him start di Gideon inna St. Mary

His aim was to liberate all slave in di country

Starting from Frontier and Trinity

To the Heywood Hall and Esher property

Dem stop and praise the ancestor deh a Ballards Valley

Tactical, technical, tenacious Tacky

Spiritually physically yu tek care of everbody

Mystical, magical, marvelous tacky

Yu pray and yu fight fi mek your people happy

Di militia Bullets couldn’t get pass wi obeah

So dem use di maroons who come from Africa

Who sign treaty fi subdue dem ownna black brother

And di demonic Davy claim seh him kill Dadda

But a dat time di war realy realy get Badda

Tacky had di vision tacky had foresight

Though in the tunnel he saw the light

Black people all over the island start fi fight

Seeking the victory of right over might

Tactical, technical, tenacious Tacky

Spiritually physically yu tek care of everbody

Mystical, magical, marvelous tacky

Yu pray and yu fight fi mek your people happy

Tacky is a hero we all must agree

He gave his life so we all can be free

That more than Norman or Missa Mantee

Tacky a hero like Bogle and Garvey