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Black History 365 | # 95 Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

May 30, 2024

Did you know the “Day-O” song with the lyrics “daylight come and me wanna go home” was a song Jamaican dock workers would sing working night shifts loading bananas onto ships. It was extremely hard slave labour even though the version of the song we know seems joyous and lively. It was made famous by Harry Belafonte who is a huge part of black history but that’s the origin of the song, puts it in serious context!

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