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Brown girl in the ring.
LIBRA Roun. 1716 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Alan Lomax collection
- Caribbean voyage
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Children's songs--Caribbean Area.
- Children's songs.
- Singing games--Caribbean Area.
- Singing games.
- Folk songs, Creole--Caribbean Area.
- Folk songs, Creole.
- Folk songs, English--Caribbean Area.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk songs, French--Caribbean Area.
- Folk songs, French.
- Folk music--Caribbean Area.
- Folk music.
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- Folk songs, English.
- Children's songs.
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, [1997]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English, Creole, and French.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Game songs from Trinidad and Tobago: There's a brown girl in the ring ; One, two, three ; Zinglito ; Gypsy in the moonlight ; Coming down with a bunch of roses ; In a fine castle ; I have a tree in my right hand ; One Spaniard came ; Jane and Louisa ; Roman soldiers ; Sandy girl ; Some like it hot, some like it cold ; Green gravel ; Sammy dead-o ; Ring diamond ; Mamselle Marie, marry the girl one time ; Afouyèkè ; Poco, le' me 'lone ; Miss Lucy has some fine young ladies ; Mister Ram Goat-o ; Bésé down ; Si, si, Maria
- Pass play and game songs from Dominica and St. Lucia: Down to the carpet ; Mosquito one ; Early in the morning ; Tra la la voumbé ; Bonjour ma cousine ; Sikola ola vanni ; Dis sòlda la ; Ariyèl-o ; Missy-la, Massa-la ; Lindi mwen la riviè ; Mango ti-n ; Yun ti pwayé ; Ay zabèl-o ; Fiolé ; Round and round the village ; You lie, you lie ; Went to Jamaica ; Rolling shilling ; What shall I put it in? ; Van-la ; Mwen leve lindi bon matin ; Eliza Kongo
- Game songs from Anguilla and Nevis: Here we go loo-by loo ; Drop Peter drop ; Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar ; Little Sally Water ; Walking up the green grass ; How green you are ; Man o' war in the harbor ; Aunty Nanny thread the needle ; Annie, le' go me fowl ; A goosie lost his tail ; Something make me laugh, ha, ha, ha
- Pass play songs from Carriacou: Anana-o ; Elé Misi-o ; Meet me on the road ; Vio Vio lé ; 'Dolphus Coker ; Mary
- and Martha is bound to wear the crown-o.
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Notes:
- "Game and pass play songs sung by children and adults from Trinidad, Tobago, Dominica, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Nevis, and Carriacou"--Container.
- Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1962 in various locations in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the western Caribbean.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes with English, Creole, and French texts and translations ([40] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 37902982
- Publisher Number:
- 1166117162
- CD 1716 Rounder Records
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