The source island is hard to determine for many of the songs. The songs could easily island-hop. Some like Lionel Belasco, just called his songs 'West Indian', perhaps the safest attribution.

Secondly, never put your faith in a statement in a single report unless it is backed up by verifiable evidence. Singers of 'folk' material do their 'own thing' and make up what they think is a good story, and also move locations to fit a rhyme (many examples with U. S. folk songs).

Third, very few trained 'song catchers' worked in the Caribbean, the exception being one or two collecting the ananci tales or tracing the variations on old English ballads and rhymes.