This song was originally by Lord Beginner, it's on the Calypso Ladies CD collection. He does an extra verse, between 1 and 2, can't recall the first two lines but it ends "As I peep through the jalousie/I saw the craf was awaiting me." I think "jalousie" is a kind of wooden screen window and "craf" is a woman. Also "sleep in three" may sound a bit saucy to modern ears but as I understand it this was an innocent arrangement in a poor country with limited bedding facilities. The CD mentioned above is interesting because the women reappear throughout the songs. E.g. Dorothy has another song (by Executor, a minor single-tone calypso): I was weak and broken down All my nerves were dead and gone Who could do this cruelty to me? No other than a woman named Dorothy And she even turns up in much later songs by Sparrow and Kitchener.
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