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 Seņor - 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------