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    This is a summary of the Banana Boat Song folk song from Jamaica from around 1950: The song is sung from the perspective of a worker who spends the night stacking bananas until morning. In the chorus, the singer expresses their desire to go home as daylight comes. Various verses describe tasks like lifting bunches of bananas and hiding black spiders. The singer calls out to the tally man to count their bananas so they can finally go home when daylight arrives.

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    This is a summary of the Banana Boat Song folk song from Jamaica from around 1950: The song is sung from the perspective of a worker who spends the night stacking bananas until morning. In the chorus, the singer expresses their desire to go home as daylight comes. Various verses describe tasks like lifting bunches of bananas and hiding black spiders. The singer calls out to the tally man to count their bananas so they can finally go home when daylight arrives.

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    Banana Boat Song: Chorus: Daaay - O, Day-Ay-Ay-O, Day-Light

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    Nicola Ziliani
    This is a summary of the Banana Boat Song folk song from Jamaica from around 1950: The song is sung from the perspective of a worker who spends the night stacking bananas until morning. In the chorus, the singer expresses their desire to go home as daylight comes. Various verses describe tasks like lifting bunches of bananas and hiding black spiders. The singer calls out to the tally man to count their bananas so they can finally go home when daylight arrives.

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    Banana Boat Song

    Jamaican folk song, c. 1950, writer unknown (as


    sung by Harry Belafonte)

    (Sing F)
    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Chorus: Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F . |
    Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wanna go home

    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Work all night on a drink a’ rum, day-light come an’ me wan’ go ho-ome.
    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F . |
    Stack ba-na-na till de mornin’ come, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home.

    F . . . | C7 . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Come, Mis-ter tally man an’ tally me ba-na-na, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home. Me say
    F . . . | C7 . . . |F . . . | C7 . F
    Come, Mister tally man an’ tally me ba-na-na, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home.

    . |F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Lift six han’, seven han’, eight han’ bunch, day-light come an' me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Six han’, sev-en han’, eight han’ bunch, day-light come an' me wan’ go home

    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Chorus: Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F . |
    Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wanna go home

    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Beauti-ful bunch of ripe ba-nana, day-light come an’ me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F
    Hide the dead-ly, black ta-ranchla, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home

    . |F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Lift six han’, seven han’, eight han’ bunch, day-light come an' me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Six han’, sev-en han’, eight han’ bunch, day-light come an' me wan’ go home
    F . . . | C7 . . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Come, Mis-ter tally man an’ tally me ba-na-na, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home. Me say
    F . . . | C7 . . . |F . . . | C7 . F
    Come, Mister tally man an’ tally me ba-na-na, day-light come an’ me wan’ go home.

    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F .
    Chorus: Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wan’ go ho-ome
    F . . . |F . . |F . . . | C7 . F . |
    Daaay -o, Day-ay-ay-o, day-light come an' me wanna go home

    F . . . | C7 . F\
    End: (sing slowly) day-light come an’ me wan’ go--- home------

    San Jose Ukulele Club

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