The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8121   Message #1438523
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
19-Mar-05 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jumbie Jamboree / Zombie Jamboree
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jumbie Jamboree / Zombie Jamboree
Coxone?, Peter Tosh?

Are you sure ?? I always understood that it was a song from Trinidad, the first person I heard perform it was Fitzroy Coleman about 1956/8 at the daddy of all English Folk Clubs the Ballads and Blues when it was upstairs at the Princess Louise in Holborn. Steve Benbow also performed it probably learned from Fitz.
Fitz always sang "Jumbie". Wonder if he stills sing it?

Hoot