This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said
So in love the preacher's face turned red
Soon everybody knew the thing was dead
He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night
She go crazy
Got to make a getaway
Papa say
[Chorus]
Oh - no hesitation
No tears and no hearts breakin'
No remorse
Oh - congratulations
This is your Haitian Divorce
She takes the taxi to the good hotel
Bon march¨¦ as far as she can tell
She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
She feels alright, she get it on tonight
Mister driver
Take me where the music play
Papa say
[Chorus]
At the Grotto
In the greasy chair
Sits the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair
When she smiled, she said it all
The band was hot so
They danced the famous Merengue
Now we dolly back
Now we fade to black
Tearful reunion in the USA
Day by day those memories fade away
Some babies grow in a peculiar way
It changed, it grew, and everybody knew
Semi-mojo
Who's this kinky so-and-so?
Papa go
[Chorus]
So in love the preacher's face turned red
Soon everybody knew the thing was dead
He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night
She go crazy
Got to make a getaway
Papa say
[Chorus]
Oh - no hesitation
No tears and no hearts breakin'
No remorse
Oh - congratulations
This is your Haitian Divorce
She takes the taxi to the good hotel
Bon march¨¦ as far as she can tell
She drinks the zombie from the cocoa shell
She feels alright, she get it on tonight
Mister driver
Take me where the music play
Papa say
[Chorus]
At the Grotto
In the greasy chair
Sits the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair
When she smiled, she said it all
The band was hot so
They danced the famous Merengue
Now we dolly back
Now we fade to black
Tearful reunion in the USA
Day by day those memories fade away
Some babies grow in a peculiar way
It changed, it grew, and everybody knew
Semi-mojo
Who's this kinky so-and-so?
Papa go
[Chorus]
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I agree with most of the comments. I don't however think the father was involved. I think "Papa say" is just a lyrical fill with no particular meaning. I think Babs went on a holiday to Haiti because her marriage was dead, and had a fling while she was there. She returned and got back together with her husband, Clean Willie, with whom once she had been so much in love. Sadly she had become pregnant while in Haiti, which became apparent as the child grew up semi-mojo. Everyone knew, so Clean Willie then divorced her which became her Haitian Divorce. I like the way we "dolly back" and "fade to black" before the fling. These are cinematic devices used by directors when everyone knows what is going to happen. The literary eqivalent is a series of dots. This is what marks out Becker and Fagen as master lyricists. There is a similar gem in nearly every Steely Dan song.
I always heard it as "now we dyed it back - now we fade to black" as if she had bleached her hair out before the fling in Haiti and then dyed it back upon returning...<br /> <br /> (yes, my own crazy interpretation)<br /> <br /> Thanks for filling in the lyrical gap with the cinema reference. Very interesting take on a great song.