Banana Boat (Day-O)

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Banana Boat (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte

About Banana Boat (Day-O)

"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.") .

Banana Boat (Day-O) Lyrics

[00:04.16] Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
[00:10.08] Daylight come and me wan' go home
[00:15.57] Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
[00:19.32] Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
[00:22.52] Daylight come and me wan' go home
[00:29.27] Work all night on a drink a'rum
[00:34.06] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[00:37.24] Stack banana 'til the morning come
[00:40.76] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[00:45.21] Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
[00:48.66] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[00:53.08] Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
[00:56.46] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:00.35] It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, bunch
[01:05.23] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:08.44] Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, bunch
[01:13.00] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:16.18] Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
[01:20.85] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:23.99] Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
[01:28.63] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:31.88] A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
[01:36.41] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:39.86] Hide the deadly black tarantula
[01:44.35] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:47.16] It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, bunch
[01:52.12] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[01:55.25] Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, bunch
[02:00.03] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:03.02] Day, me say day-ay-ay-o
[02:07.74] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:11.10] Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
[02:15.60] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:19.01] Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
[02:23.52] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:26.83] Come, Mr. Tally Man, tally me banana
[02:31.29] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:34.68] Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
[02:41.37] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[02:46.55] Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
[02:52.30] Me say day, me say day-ay-ay-o
[02:54.63] (Daylight come and me wan' go home)
[03:01.50]

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