Okay, how about "Odd & Unusual Words In Songs" [OUWIS]?

Does that title work better than the other one? With OUWIS the "unfamiliar" is understood, or maybe it's not and that's the reason for the thread.

While you ponder that, I'd like to turn your attention to Barry Finn's 09 May 06 - 02:29 AMquestion about the Dou Dou.

Now, be honest. Wasn't 'crap', or "number 2" or "Sugar Honey Ice Tea" the first thing you thought of when you read that Dou Dou phrase?

Some words and names will never make it in Puritan USA because they are too closely tied to body functions that aren't mentioned in polite society.

And I'm just too nice of a lady to say shit-OOPS! I said it! Or rather I wrote it. My bad *.

* contemporary hip-hop lingo for "I'm sorry".

But-just for the sake of discussion, let me remind you of what Barry Finn wrote in his post:

In the Caribbean Dou Dou is a term (not derogatory) term for a island girl or woman it seems to me that the song may have been a coruption of "Dou Dou Let Me Go" instead. Dou Dou is found to be in a few shanties. In Roller Bowler "As I roved out one morning I met a Dou Dou fair". Another West Indian shantey, St. Peter Down In Courland Bay starts off "Darling do do I'm going to St. Peter's Day".

-snip-

Now maybe the phrase Dou Dou isn't even pronounced "doo doo". So I'm gonna try to forget about that bathroom connotation, and say that I've not yet found the referent in any online websites on Caribbean or Rastafarian slang. Which doesn't mean a darn thing {notice I said "darn" and not damn-Opps!}

Anyway, I figure this 'dou dou' phrase may be 'old school' Caribbean patois and not 'new school' like the examples on those Caribbean websites [which can be found by using the key words "Caribbean dictionary" or "Caribbean slang"].

And maybe that olden day word is like the West Indian word "titty" which means Auntie or Old woman or something like that and not what you're thinking about. I believe that I read somewhere that titty {pronounced tee tee?} is from the Spanish word for aunt "tia".

So what does this have to do with the price of red beans & rice in Barbados? Well, I not that sure.

But-work with me here...How bout I found an online reference for a West African name {I believe it is Wolof} for a singer named M'bengue, Dou Dou N'diaye. [the "Ndiaye" name with several variants is rather common in The Gambia and Senegal, as I learned from a couple of people from those countries that I met].

So I'm betting that "Dou Dou" is a nickname for some personal name or the other-what I don't know.

Since sharing is caring, I'm hoping that somebody can shed some light on this dou dou.

{On second thought-Yucky!!}