Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
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title:
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
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"Day-O" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. The song has mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music. It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. The best-known version was released by American singer Harry Belafonte in 1956 and la
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Traditional Jamaican folk song
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-O_(The_Banana_Boat_Song)
date created:
2005-08-31T12:40:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T17:55:06Z
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