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Thread #138244 Message #3177241
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
27-Jun-11 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Big Big Sambo Gyal (Jamaica)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Big Big Sambo Gyal (jamaica)
"Bungo Moolatta," quoted above by Morwen, is CXXVII, a Dancing Tune, p. 225 in Walter Jekyll, 1907, Jamaican Song and Story. Printed with musical score.
Walter Jekyll, in a note, defines the usages in Jamaica:
Bungo- "...a rough uncivilized African."
Mulatto- "...the child of two Brown parents, Brown being the offspring of Black and White. He has rather a yellow skin."