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Thread #170116   Message #4113634
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
17-Jul-21 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Come for your Dinner (Bahamas)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come for your Dinner (Bahamas)
Boy Nasty, come for your dinner, boy.
Sister, you ain't the one.


And some other stuff I can't make out. It's the "No... but if you hum a few bars, I'll fake it..." island folk process.

Lomax, Crowley et al translated the Bahamian fellow as Boy Nasty. There's a very similar 1930's version that alternates with the ...let me go home... line of John B. Sail.

Only 'dinner' fable that comes to mind at all is Spider & Tortoise.