Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte and the Muppets (video clip and lyrics)

[wings]

The Banana Boat Song is a traditional Jamaican folk song,[1] 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.")

Belafonte's debut television performance of the song was on the TV series The Muppet Show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Boat_Song


Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte and the Muppets


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpg-KIKD5gU

Banana Boat Song

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 mornin' 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...
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

[lionpsyche]

Αχ, άτιμο daylight! It makes us go home...

[wings]

Ε, δεν πειράζει να γυρίζουμε κάπου κάπου. :-)

Πάντως, εδώ έχουμε ένα θρυλικό τραγούδι. Είναι κι αυτό το βελούδο της φωνής του Μπελαφόντε...

[lionpsyche]

Να γυρίζουμε, αν περνάμε καλά και σπίτι.