Lyr. Add: ISAAC PARK GONE A COLON

Isaac Park gone a Colon,
Isaac Park gone a Colon,
Isaac Park gone a Colon,
Colon boat a go kill them boy.

Colon bolow gone a Colon
Colon bolow gone a Colon,
Colon bolow gone a Colon,
Colon boat a go kill them boy.

With musical score, a dancing tune, CLI. Danced to the "5th Figure," 6/8 or 2/4 time.
"Colon was the port of disembarkation for labourers on the Panama Canal."
The deaths took place because of yellow fever, and the work of assassination squads who murdered any 'wooly-haired man" in the camps. "Straight-haired Coolies, that is to say East Indians, were allowed to go unharmed."
Jekyll, 1904, see above.
In 1888, the French De Lesseps company began with 20,000 laborers, most of them Afro-Caribbean. Over 22,000 died in the 1880s.
The United States took over in 1904, the year Jekyll's book was published.