WHEN I GO HOME
Jamaican: trad

When I go home I will tell my Mama,
When I go home I will tell my Mama,
When I go home I will tell my Mama,
Jamaica girl won't leave me alone.


According to the notes accompanying this song:
"Many of the British soldiers and sailors who were posted to Jamaica soon fell to the charms of the local girls. This song is still used for quadrille dancing in Jamaica."

This song may be sung as a round, with entries at the start of each of the four lines.


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

X: 1
T: When I Go Home
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
O: Jamaica
Z: NP 10/06/2011
K: C
CEE EDD | DCB, C3 |
EGG GFF | FED E3 |
Gcc   cBA | AGF E2D |
CEE E2D | DCB, C3 |

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