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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Jun-11 - 10:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Big Big Sambo Gyal (Jamaica)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Big Big Sambo Gyal (jamaica)
"Pack She Back to She Ma" was copyright in 1943, Massie Patterson and Lionel Belasco, copyright M. Baron Co., New York.
Massie Patterson, the singer, may have recorded the song.

Re-printed by permission in Jim Morse, Folk songs of the Caribbean, 1958, Bantam Books.

In notes with another "Sambo" song, Walter Jekyll, 1904, remarks: "A Sambo is the child of a brown mother and a black father, being a cross between black and white. The Sambo lady, very proud of the strain of white in her blood, turns up her nose at the black man. She wants a white man for a husband. Failing to find one, she will not marry at all."

Lyr. Add.: SAMBO LADY
Digging-Sing

Sambo lady ho! Sambo, Sambo lady ho!
Sambo, Sambo no like black man,
Sambo, Sambo, want white man,
Sambo, Sambo, no get white man,
Sambo, Sambo, no want man again,
Sambo, Sambo lady, oh!
Sambo.
With musical score, LXXVI.

Walter Jekyll, 1904, Jamaican Song and Story, Dover reprints.