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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
22-May-16 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks
Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Calypso/Caribbean Songbooks
Songs from Trinidad

West Indian Negro Spirituals
1        The Lord's Prayer
2        De Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy
3        We a goin' Home
4        Death, O me Lawd
5         When Joshua walk roun' Jericho
6        John Wrote
7        Bam bye, me Lawd
8        Weary Travelers
9        Mercy pourin' down
10        De Angels rejoicin'
11        A little more Oil in your Lamp
12        I gwine Home
13        Gone to Glory
14        Oh, how long
15        Safe in de Promise' Land

Calypsos
16        Run away, Kaiser William
17        Go 'way Jestina
18        Papa didn't know
19        The Stuttering Pastor
20        Conga Bara
21        Murder in de Market
22        Sing Sally oh

Work Songs
23        One, Two, Three
24        Salt Fish Water
25        Time for Man go Home
26        Highland dey

Folk Customs
27        Ogoun Belele
28        Pain 'ou ca Mange
29        Ogoun Karanga
30        De Fey in Calma Pass

Folk Dances
31        Dat Girl in de Coffee
32        Sweet Man Doh Re
33        Limbo

Folk Tales
34        Mina
35        Lim Lim Lim
36        Grey Mondie

Miscellaneous
37        Dodo Petite Popo
38        Doggie, Doggie
39        Blow, Nelson
40        Dulcie
41        Roogooroogoo
42        Vexation Song
43        Estalin
44        You bin Dey
45        Call up me Rosebud

[Connor, Edric, Walters, Gareth, Songs from Trinidad (London: Oxford U. Press, 1958, pp.48-49)]

Note: The author is also the composer of The Manchester United Calypso.