Duppy Run Me

You want to hear the truth?

Well duppy run me,

You don’t have to believe it

But I was chase by a duppy.

I could name the cemetery

So that you could go and see,

I know it for a fact

Because it happened to me.

I heard the fellows say

They actually saw it happen

But I didn’t fear the dead

So I did not feel threatened.

So I went with my fastness

To prove it for myself

And “faith” I telling the truth

I now have failing health.

I have not yet recovered

And still can’t believe my eyes,

Right in that cemetery

I almost met my demise.

It isn’t much to describe

It was like a shadow

But it was too close for comfort

So I knew I had go.

Yes duppy could run

And it faster than you or me,

That is why up to this day

I don’t know how I get free.

But let me tell you my friend

How I met this duppy,

I was passing by the gate

And I saw a light in the cemetery.

  

You know bajan malicious

So I had to investigate,

Of course it was past midnight

But I didn’t care how late.

When I got by the grave

I saw this shrouded shape,

I know it wasn’t human

It even wore a cape.

It emitted an eerie sound

Like nothing I ever heard,

I was out of there in a flash

Mark my very word.

It chased me to the gate

And out of the graveyard,

It chased me up the street

Boy I was running hard.

When I reached the church

It was still behind me,

I never looked back once

But I could sense the duppy.

All the way home it run me

Right up to my very door

And only when I got in

It didn’t chase anymore.

But peeping through the flaps

I heard it’s eerie sound

And when I heard its words

I just dropped to the ground.

“Stay out of the cemetery

In there is for the dead.”

Then that eerie sound again

And from my house it fled.

I don’t care what you feel

It was a “real-real” duppy,

I know that for a fact

Cause it actually happened to me.

Stewart Russell © November 2018