Research Catalog

Title

Brown girl in the ring [sound recording].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, p1997.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.

Description

1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

• Caribbean voyage
• Alan Lomax collection

Uniform Title

Alan Lomax collection.

Subjects

• Folk music > Caribbean Area
• Folk songs, French > Caribbean Area
• Folk songs, Creole > Caribbean Area
• Children's songs > Caribbean Area
• Folk songs, English > Caribbean Area
• Singing games > Caribbean Area

Note

• "Game and pass play songs sung by children and adults from Trinidad, Tobago, Dominica, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Nevis, and Carriacou"--Container.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes with English, Creole, and French texts and translations ([40] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1962 in various locations in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the western Caribbean.

Language (note)

• Sung in English, Creole, and French.

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.

Call Number

*LDC 17390 (F)

LCCN

1166117162

OCLC

37902982

Title

Brown girl in the ring [sound recording].

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, p1997.

Series

Caribbean voyage

Alan Lomax collection

Alan Lomax collection.

Performer

Various performers.

Event

Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1962 in various locations in the Leeward and Windward Islands of the western Caribbean.

Language

Sung in English, Creole, and French.

Connect to:

Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added Author

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002. Recording engineer

Other Standard Identifier

1166117162

Publisher No.

CD 1716 Rounder Records

Research Call Number

*LDC 17390 (F) Program notes and lyrics on file.