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James Fryer Origins: Dorothy One Morning (Patrick McDonald) (14) RE: Origins: Dorothy One Morning (Patrick McDonald) 07 Sep 11


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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