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Thread #138255   Message #3168567
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
10-Jun-11 - 04:06 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks
Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks
Jamaican Song and Story con't.

Part IV
Dancing Tunes

When I go home
Guava root a medicine
Crass-lookin' dig up'tairs
Goatridge have some set a gal
Me carry me ackee a Linstead market
Since Dora Logan
Fire, Mr. Preston, Fire!
Tief cahffee
Fan me, soldierman
Manny Clark
Bungo Moolatta
Bahl, Ada
Rise a roof in the morning
Oh we went to the river
Auntie Jane a call Minnie
Marty, Marty
What make you shave old Hall?
Run, Moses, run
Whé you da do?
Mother William, hold back Leah
Oh, General Jackson!
Soldier, da go 'way
Don't cry too much, Jamaica gal
Dip them
Very well, very well
Oh trial!
Father, I goin' to join the confirmation
Obeah down dé
The other day me waistcoat cut
All them gal a ride merry-go-round
Merry-go-round a go fall down
Try, dear, don't tell a lie
Look how you mout'
Breezy say him no want Brown lady
Isaac Park gone a Colon
Matilda dé 'pon dyin' bed
Mas' Charley
Me buggy a sell
Oh 'zetta Ford, gal
Birdyzeena
Me an' Kattie no 'gree
Down-town gal
Sal, you ought to been ashame
Good morning, Mr. Harman
Hullo me honey!
When mumma dere
Oh jilly oh!
James Brown, you mahmy call you
When I go home
Feather, feather, feather
Quaco Sam
Anch a bite me
Me know one gal a Cross Road
Moonshine baby
I have a news
Once I was a trav'ller
Oh me wouldn' bawl at all
You take junka 'tick
Yellow fever come in
Jimmy Rumpy
Susan, very well why oh!
Bahss, Bahss, you married you wife
Blackbird a eat puppa corn, oh!
Me da Coolie sleep on Piazza
Notty Shaw
You worthless Becca Watson
Since the waggonette come in
Them Gar'n Town people
Young gal in Jamaica, take warning
Me no min a concert
Complain, complain, complain
I can't walk on the bare road
Come go da mountain
Amanda Grant
Last night I was lying on me number
Me lassie, me dundooze
Mister Davis brine some'ting fe we all
A whé the use
Quattywort' of this!
Mongoose a come

Appendix:
A. Traces of African melody in Jamaica
English airs and motifs in Jamaica