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GUEST,Gda Music Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks (50) RE: Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks 11 Jun 11


Folk Songs of JAMAICA
Edited and arranged by Tom Murray
Oxford University Press (60p) - ISBN 0 19 330585 2
Foreword by Hugh Paget

INTRODUCTION - TOM MURRAY
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, B.W.I - April, 1951

CONTENTS

ACCOMPONG SONGS
House an`Lan`

GAMES AND DANCES
Ada
Ball Gawn Roun`
Hill an` Gully
Hol` yuh Han`

LOVE SONGS
Dallas Gawn
Wata Come a Me Y`eye

MISCELLANEOUS
Call Dinah
Cudelia Brown
Fan Me Solja Man
Fyah Bun
Hosanna
One Solja Man
Rookoombine
Teacher Lick de Gal

SONGS ABOUT ANIMALS OR BIRDS
Chi-Chi Bud Oh!
Docta Bud
Monkey Draw Bow
Ratta Madan-Law

SONGS FROM JAMAICAN FOLKLORE
Mada Cantinny
Missa Ramgoat

SONGS WITH CHORUSES
De Ribber Ben Come Dung
Linstead Market
Matta Walla-Lef`
Nobody`s Business
Ribber Ben Come Dung

WORKING SONGS
Day Dah Light
Judy Drownded
Las Kean Fine
Sammy Dead Oh!

NOTE
Twelve of these songs have been arranged, with guitar accompaniments and optional alto or bass voices, by John Gavall (Twelve Folk Songs from Jamaica, O.U.P.).This publication may also be used as a melody edition (the piano plays from the original collection).


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