{"id":37417,"date":"2024-10-06T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=37417"},"modified":"2024-10-06T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T14:06:05","slug":"day-o-the-banana-boat-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/10\/06\/day-o-the-banana-boat-song-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp3\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp4\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp3\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp4\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp3\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp4\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp3\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp4\"> Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O-acoustic.mp3\"> Day-O-acoustic.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/Day-O-electric.mp3\"> Day-O-electric.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nDay O (Day O)<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not ready yet?<br \/>\nDay O (Day O)<br \/>\nOh, you&#8217;re still not ready?<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDay O (Day O) Day O (Day O)<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<br \/>\nDay, me say day, me say day, me say day<br \/>\nMe say day, me say day-o<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nWork all night on a drink of rum<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wanna&#8217; go home<br \/>\nStack bananas &#8217;til the mornin&#8217; come<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wanna&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDay O (Day O) Day O (Day O)<br \/>\nDay, me say day-o<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<br \/>\nDay, me say day, me say day, me say day<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nCome, mister tallyman, tally me banana<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<br \/>\nCome, mister tally man, tally me banana<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nLift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<br \/>\n(Woah) Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>\nDay O (Day O) Day O (Day O)<br \/>\nDay, me say day-o<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<br \/>\nDay, me say day, me say day, me say day<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nDay O (Day O) Day O (Day O)<br \/>\nDay, me say day, me say day, day O<br \/>\nDaylight come and me wan&#8217; go home<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\n&#8220;Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)&#8221; is a Jamaican folk song with roots in the daily work chants of dockworkers. The song originated as a call-and-response chant used by banana field workers who worked at night loading ships with fruit, particularly during the 19th century when Jamaica&#8217;s banana industry was prominent. The lyrics reflect the workers&#8217; desire to finish their labor at daybreak and be paid for their toil. The song became internationally famous when popularized by Harry Belafonte in 1956, showcasing the rich tradition of Caribbean folk music.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/ocho-rios-rendezvous\/\">Ocho Rios Rendezvous<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/rombox\/Narley_Marley\/\">Narley Marley<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/V\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp3 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-I.mp4 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp3 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-II.mp4 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp3 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged-Underground-V.mp4 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp3 Day-O__The-Banana-Boat-Song-Unplugged.mp4 Day-O-acoustic.mp3 Day-O-electric.mp3 [Intro] Day O (Day O) You&#8217;re not ready yet? Day O (Day O) Oh, you&#8217;re still not ready? [Instrumental, Guitar Solo] [Refrain] Day O (Day O) Day O (Day O) Daylight come and me wan&#8217; go home Day, me say day, me say day, me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1478,9,14,3955],"tags":[546,563,4022],"class_list":["post-37417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coversongs","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-ocho-rios-rendezvous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37433,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37417\/revisions\/37433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}