@Yanne - Ian Cully

I was wondering what the non-Engligh words meant and found:

- your post above in this thread

- your video on youTube

- the extensive info from Mudcat @Azizi here Mudcat Iko Iko thread and in similar threads

- and on Azizi's website Iko Iko text analysis on Cocojams

- the Wikipedia Iko Iko article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iko_Iko

- and much more besides but those references seem to cover most of the ground as they are referenced or copied and pasted elsewhere.

It all makes fascinating reading and I have learned such a lot from what I thought would be a very simple quest!

However, some things I have read are difficult to understand because they seem to contradict themselves.

For example, a couple of statements in your post above.

Firstly, and I have seen this repeated word for word elsewhere,

"the chant "Hey now! Hey now! Iko! Iko!" is entirely absent from Crawford's "Jock-o-mo" released in 1953. Why tell a journalist you copied down two chants and amalgamated them and then go to a recording studio and only sing one of the chants? You don't need to take my word for it. Go to www.deezer.com and type in 'Jockomo' in the search box and you'll hear Crawford's 1953 hit free of charge. There's no 'Iko! Iko!' in the lyrics. . . .

. . . The "Jockomo fee no wah na nay" lyrics were indeed first introduced by Crawford in 1953, but the "Iko, Iko" part wasn't, because it was introduced by the Dixie Cups. . . . "

Later in your post you say,

THE WHOLE VERSE

As sung by Sugar Boy Crawford and the Dixie Cups:

Hey now! Hey now! Iko! Iko! an day! Jockomo fee no wah na nay Jockomo fee na nay

The second statement seems to be the correct one, if this clip from the Sugar Boy Crawford version on YouTube is the original one that he recorded:

Jock-a-Mo by Sugar Boy Crawford - "Talkin bout, 'Hey now! Hey now! Iko Iko . . "

Is there an earlier recording by Sugar Boy Crawford that does not contain those lines? I could only hear a brief except from the song on the Deezer site that you cited - is that an earlier recording?

If not . . . please can you help me to make sense of what seems to be a contradiction in your post above and in a similar post on this Mudcat topic: Iko, Iko - the real words and meaning ?

My apologies if I am missing something really obvious here!

Best wishes,

Lizzie