Our Singing Country
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NEVER GET A LICKIN' TILL I GO DOWN TO BIMINI
/. No. 434. ilcc. and sung" by a street band with mandolin, guitar, and tenor banjo, Nassau, Bahamas, 1935.
When the tourist boats and the tourist planes dock in Nassau, they are met by one or several of the town's street bands. These bands (banjo, one or two guitars, mandolin, and rattle) sing and play Bahaman versions of American jazz tunes of ancient vintage and fresh-improvised, hot arrangements of Bahaman folk-dance tunes. At night they go over the hill and improvise even hotter arrangements for the "round dances"—fox trots, one-steps, etc.—which have recently been increasing in popularity in the islands. The following tunes, examples of this "sophisticated" genre, are signposts of future development in Bahaman folk music. |
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Oh, when I go down to Bimini,
Never get a lickin' till I go down to Bimini.
Bimini gal is a rock in the harbor,
Never get a lickin' till I go down to Bimini. |
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