Guest 21 Jul 12 - 01:40 PM, very similar lyrics to the ones that you asked about are found on this Mudcat thread http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=40845#3233786.

The lyrics to the Caribbean song "One Solja Man" were posted on that thread in October 2011 by Q. As cited by Q, that song was included in the 1951 book Folk Songs of Jamaica Oxford University Press.

As a result of reading your query and Q's post, I published a post on my cultural blog about the song "One Solja Man". Here's a link to that post:

http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/07/caribbean-song-one-solja-man.html Caribbean Song "One Solja Man"

I will also add some comments to that Mudcat thread in which the lyrics are posted.


Best wishes,

Azizi Powell