#bananaboats — Public Fediverse posts
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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional #JamaicanFolkSong. The song has #mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known #calypsoMusic. It is a #callAndResponse #workSong, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading #bananas onto the large ocean-going cargo ships known as #bananaBoats. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over.
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"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional #JamaicanFolkSong. The song has #mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known #calypsoMusic. It is a #callAndResponse #workSong, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading #bananas onto the large ocean-going cargo ships known as #bananaBoats. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8vLoqvtoc -
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional #JamaicanFolkSong. The song has #mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known #calypsoMusic. It is a #callAndResponse #workSong, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading #bananas onto the large ocean-going cargo ships known as #bananaBoats. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8vLoqvtoc -
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional #JamaicanFolkSong. The song has #mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known #calypsoMusic. It is a #callAndResponse #workSong, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading #bananas onto the large ocean-going cargo ships known as #bananaBoats. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8vLoqvtoc -
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional #JamaicanFolkSong. The song has #mento influences, but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known #calypsoMusic. It is a #callAndResponse #workSong, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading #bananas onto the large ocean-going cargo ships known as #bananaBoats. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8vLoqvtoc -
TIL
The phrase "en bananbattur" in Tamil means "my brother-in-law"
but "en banan båttur" in Norwegian means "banana boat ride".
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CW: Linguistics, fruit-based pun
It's an urban myth that the largest per capita producer of bananas in Europe is Iceland, but their ancestors in the Nordic Bronze Age were no stranger to bannaną.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną
#ProtoGermanic #NordicBronzeAge #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Puns #BananaBoats #VikingShips #StoneInscription #Linguistics