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The 1939 Trinidad field recordings of Melville and Frances Herskovits. Vol. I, Peter was a fisherman.
Streaming audio Available online
View online- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Music online: American song.
- Music online: American song
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
- English
- Yoruba
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, Creole--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Folk songs, Creole.
- Folk songs, English--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk songs, Yoruba--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Folk songs, Yoruba.
- Gospel music--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Gospel music.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Genre:
- Folk songs, English.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Peter was a fisherman
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, 1998.
- Language Note:
- Sung in English, Creole dialect, or Yoruba.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- You know one Joseph Keeba
- Invocation
- Yan mi, Yan mi
- John Gilman want tobacco
- E-ajo Ajo
- The Bay Road girls, they have no pride
- Enyin Olowo
- Roll Jordan roll
- Yard-O 'yaddo
- I want a pretty woman
- Oh, send she back
- Eshu bara
- Mureau, Mureau the devil
- We don't want no rice
- Y!̌ Ekn͠ ara wa la m ̕sun
- Explanation of Y!̌ Ekn͠ ara wa la m ̕sun
- Ou bel Marie Coolie
- Congo Justina
- Ine ine katuke
- Ikubo
- Buccoo Bay young girl
- You bad and you bad
- What a friend we have in Jesus
- Paulie say she love me
- Ye! Iwo
- Texas sailor coming down
- When me baby born, o
- Peter was a fisherman
- Zutula dead
- Sunmo
- Donnie Willie
- De night a de wake
- Jesus lover of my soul
- I wish I was a little fish.
- Notes:
- Originally issued as compact disc.
- Program notes (ill.) from original container.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (American song). Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- CD 1114
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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