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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Jun-11 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Subject: RE: ADD: Songs from Trinidad
Lyr. Add: WIND'ARD CAR'LINE
Reel Dance

Wind'ard Car'line, come down, oh,
Come down, gal, come down, oh.
Wind'ard Car'line, come down, oh,
Come jump on Nine-toe Astor.

You bring any money? No, sir.
You bring any money? No, sir.
You bring any money? No, doctor.
Are jumbie way mek me poorly.

"During the reel dance, the ancestral spirit of Ma Caroline from Windward, Tobago, is invited to come and take possession of the medium, Nine-toe Astor, and to pass on messages and advice. A sick person, having no money, has turned to the ancestors for a cure.".

With musical score, No. 95.
A. L. Lloyd and I. Aretz de Ramón y Rivera, 1965, Folk Songs of the Americas, Novello and Co. Ltd., London.