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Posted By: Nigel Parsons
10-Jun-11 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: ADD: jamaican folk music
Subject: Lyr Add: Run Moses
RUN MOSES Jamaican: trad
Run, Moses, run Missa Walker da come. Run, Moses, run Missa Walker da come. If yu buck yu right foot, buck yu left foot, try doan look back. If yu buck yu right foot, buck yu left foot, try doan look back. Run, Moses, run Missa Walker da come. Run, Moses, run Missa Walker da come.
According to the notes accompanying this song: "Moses is a slave who has run away from his Master. The song urges him on and warns him not to look back even if he stumbles (buck yu foot). The rhythm is that of the Mazurka which was widely danced in Jamaica in the old plantation days. The basic dance step for the Mazurka is one long step on the strong beat of the bar followed by two very short ones. The first beat of each bar is heavily accented. The Mazurka is still danced by traditional groups in Jamaica."
From: "Brown gal in de Ring" 12 Jamaican Folk-Songs Collected & arranged for schools by OLIVE LEWIN Oxford University Press 1974 ISBN 0 19 330544 5