Thanks  Prince

as usual I stand corrected  but we learn every day
Hope we meet again soon
Habib Diab Ghanim

Prince Obrien-Coker wrote:

> Jabou, Habib
> I think you confused "Tobacco Road" with the album entitled "Abbey Road" by
> the Beatles. Tobacco Road in Banjul got its name from the song by the group
> Rare Earth as I have said.(Oussou Njie Señor - HELP!). The popularity of the
> song coincided with government's plan to develop the area and the "Super
> Eagles Band" were one of the first to be assigned a plot there. The area
> used to be farms of maize (corn) and sweet potatoes. (Sidi Sanneh did
> wonders on these farms.) A part of it was a wrestling ground called "Dodou
> Mbye Ya(rd)". The wrestling ground "Dodou Mbye Ya" used to be were we now
> call New Primet/New Perseverance which was formally an open ground, where we
> used to play football. For clarity sake, I have attached the lyrics of the
> song "Tobacco Road" and anybody interested in the music, I will be glad to
> send it.
> Habib, expect a Pmail from me.
>
> Prince Coker
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   Name: TOBACCO.txt
>    TOBACCO.txt    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>               Encoding: 7bit

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