The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135205 Message #3082949
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
26-Jan-11 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: A.H. Rasmussen Chanties
Subject: RE: A.H. Rasmussen Chanties
Great!
It makes me feel vindicated for my slow performances of "Roll the Cotton Down" :D
We should all also register the slow tempo of Santiana here.
Lots of gems in the archive -- a quick way to access some of the chanties Lomax recorded in the Caribbean.
I am starting to think that this song (which I could swear I've heard before?) is the relative of the forgotten chanty refered to by Alden (1882) and Hugill (1961) as "Hilonday":
"Island Day" in Tobago
However, I don't know if it's title explains "hilonday," or if it is a further mondegreen interpretation of it!