Time for Man Go Home

DESCRIPTION: Alternate lines are a chorus, "Time for man go home." The shantyman sings: It's night time when the crickets are "bawlin" and the agouti are out and it is the time to die. "Time for man go cover dem wife"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1974 (Abrahams-DeepTheWaterShallowTheShore)
KEYWORDS: sex shanty animal bug wife
FOUND IN: West Indies(St Vincent)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Abrahams-DeepTheWaterShallowTheShore, pp. 117-118, "Time for Man Go Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #354
File: AWIS117

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