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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Jun-11 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Subject: RE: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Lyr. Add: TIME FOR MAN GO HOME
Time for man go home,
Time for man go home,
It's time for man and it's time for beast,
De bird in de bush bawl kwa, kwa, kwa !
Buckra bring old iron to break a man down,
De monkey a-bush bawl kwa, kwa, kwa !
Time for man go home!
Time for man go home !
Buckra- white man.
"It is dusk but the overseer seems unwilling to "knock-off" the workers."
Words ans tune by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Ltd.
Musical score arr. for voices and guitar by Gareth Walters.
Edric Connor, Coll., 1958, Folk Songs of Trinidad, Oxford University Press.