Caribbean Community Anthem (Vocal) Celebrating CARICOM
- 3 years ago
LYRICS:
From many distant lands, our fore fathers came
Some seeking adventure, some bound in chains
Through battles waged and fought
Through victory and pain
By test of their courage
Our freedom was gained
In homage to those gone before us
The heroes of lands in the sun
We vow to join hands and to focus
On building one Caribbean
Chorus:
Raise your voices high
Sing of your Caribbean pride
Sing it loud and strong
Feel our hearts beat as one
Celebrate in song
As we rise to heights where we belong
Sound the victory drum
For CARICOM
Though great and diverse be our ethnicities
The bonds that unite us are stronger than these
We dine we pray we love, we dance and we play
We relate to each other the West Indian way
Today as people united
Determined and steadfast we stand
We look to a brand new horizon
The future now firmly in our hands
Chorus:
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of fifteen Caribbean nations and dependencies whose main objective is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. The organization was established in 1973. Currently CARICOM has 15 full members:
Antigua & Barbuda
Belize
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Montserrat
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Bahamas
Barbados
Guyana
Jamaica
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
From many distant lands, our fore fathers came
Some seeking adventure, some bound in chains
Through battles waged and fought
Through victory and pain
By test of their courage
Our freedom was gained
In homage to those gone before us
The heroes of lands in the sun
We vow to join hands and to focus
On building one Caribbean
Chorus:
Raise your voices high
Sing of your Caribbean pride
Sing it loud and strong
Feel our hearts beat as one
Celebrate in song
As we rise to heights where we belong
Sound the victory drum
For CARICOM
Though great and diverse be our ethnicities
The bonds that unite us are stronger than these
We dine we pray we love, we dance and we play
We relate to each other the West Indian way
Today as people united
Determined and steadfast we stand
We look to a brand new horizon
The future now firmly in our hands
Chorus:
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of fifteen Caribbean nations and dependencies whose main objective is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. The organization was established in 1973. Currently CARICOM has 15 full members:
Antigua & Barbuda
Belize
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Montserrat
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Bahamas
Barbados
Guyana
Jamaica
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago