Harry Belafonte, 'Don't ever love me...'

Harry sings ‘ Don’t ever love me…This could never be…she said pleadingly..’

jksw

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Harry Belafonte

Matilda

https://youtu.be/5C-DShN82mc

Cocoanut Woman

https://youtu.be/mqrfDho4Ucg

Harry Belafonte

Thambita thalinan thalini banana –as we sang then 1950s.

Belafonte.

Never seem to get tired of………the man and his music..

JKS Weerasekera

 

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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song, the best-known version of which was sung by Harry Belafonte and is the most well-known calypso. It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home (this is the meaning of the lyric "Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana/ Daylight come and we wanna go home.")

Lyrics of  'Day O'

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Work all night on a drink of rum
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Stack banana till de morning come
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Daylight come and me wan' go home

A beautiful bunch o' ripe banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Hide the deadly black tarantula
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day...
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan' go home

Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home

 

Banana picking

Day! Oh! Day! Oh!

 Daylight come, and I won’na go home!

Come, mister tallyman, tally me banana!

Daylight come, and I won’na go home!

jksw

Harry Belafonte Day-O ( Banana Boat )

https://youtu.be/iMTNT_BzkdA

Lyrics

Day O! Day O!
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Day me say day me say day Me say day me say day o
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Work all night and a drink a rum
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Stack banana till the mornin come
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day me say day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
A beautiful bunch of ripe banana!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Hide the deadly black tarantula!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Lift six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot seven foot eight foot bunch!
(daylight come and me wanna go home)
Day me say day o
(daylight come and me wanna go home)

Harry Belafonte’s 1956 single “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” from the album Calypso is an adaptation of a vernacular Jamaican work song. This version of the song was adapted by Barbadian singer, Lord Burgess or Irving Burgie.

The song hearkens back to an era when the banana trade thrived in Jamaica before the predominance of banana republics. The call-and-response and repetition used in the song speak to the monotony of the work of loading bananas on ships in the Caribbean.

“Day-O” reached number 5 on the Billboard Charts in 1957, and remains a famous song cited in a number of more current pop culture references such as the possession scene in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1988) and Lil' Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot.”

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This is a great video on how bananas get sent to market.  Fascinating. 

Banana Picking.

Watch the video.

 

www.youtube.com/embed/_l7sak6Vlq8?rel=0