Healer of the Gold Coast Shore
Take B captures the infectious joy of Ghanaian highlife with syncopated electric guitars and buoyant call-and-response vocals.
The stories behind Healer of the Gold Coast Shore
- Liner Notes: Bright Highlife Guitars and Horns on Gold Coast Shore — Take B captures the infectious joy of Ghanaian highlife with syncopated electric guitars and buoyant call-and-response vocals.
- Restoring Life on the Coast: The Enduring Legacy of Clement Appiah — Celebrating the pioneering Ghanaian biomedical engineer who turned discarded clinical machines into lifesaving hospital care.
Lyrics
Akwaba, welcome to Ghana, where
Clement Tapaya turns broken scrap into life.
Play the high life!
Under the golden sun of the
West African plain Hospitals were crying from the broken machine
pane Donated monitors abandoned in the graveyard dust
Incubators rusted over with no one they could trust
Then stepped Clement Appiah with a bag of simple tools
Teaching all the clinics by the golden biome
Merus Boarding mercy ships
Across the ocean blue
Bringing ancient apparatus Back into the new
Merus Clement Thank you
Clement Healer of the
Gold Coast shore
The B .O. Med champion walking through the door
High lifehounds blow, bright guitars ring
Listen to the baby in the incubator sing
Nothing is broken that faith cannot mend
The greatest humanitarian and friend
Clement Appiah Kementapia Kementapia
Lalala
the villages below You don't need imports from across the
sea We have the brilliant minds right here in you and me
A thousand money to save across the land
Carried by the blessing of a humble
African hand Medes, Clement, thank you,
Clement Healer of the
Gold Coast shore
The B .O. Man champion walking through the door
High life on blow, bright guitars ring
Listen to the baby in the incubator sing
Nothing is broken that faith cannot mend
The greatest humanitarian and friend
Penetapia, Penetapia, Penetapia From
Accra to Tamale
Empowering our people
