I've known for quite a while that the word "junkanoo" had somesort of Afro-Carribeanmeaning, and am glad to have been enlightened about it.

In the case of the song "Junco Partner," however, I'm pretty sure that the meaning has a lot more to do with dope than with ancient fertility rituals or whatever ~ at least to most of the characters up in Angola who originateed, developed, and folk-processed this song over the decades.

A guy like the late great James Carroll Booker III may have heard of "junkanoo" music or dancers from down in the islands, but probably didn't know (or care) much about the historical origins of the terminology. He'd know, and care, only that it sounded like it had something to do with junk. When Booker sang "Down the road, down the road, down the road, come a junko partner," he was definitely talking about someone looking to get stoned ~ period!