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Thread #137313   Message #3151838
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
11-May-11 - 12:18 AM
Thread Name: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
Subject: RE: Origins: My Donkey Want Water
Jekyll's is the "standard" source for Jamaican folk songs. Glad you found it. I had checked in it when you were asking about the Brown-eyed Girl song, but didn't spot anything.
Good luck!!

According to Gibb Sahib's post, "most mento songs are bawdy"

To clarify (in case it wasn't), I wasn't stating that any particular item of repertoire would be "more bawdy" in a Trini or a Jamaican context. I was saying that my impression of the repertoire of mento *as a whole* is that it focuses on bawdy or off-color songs, whereas calypso repertoire is *also* full, as is well known, of political commentary/parody.