Bring Me Half a Hoe

DESCRIPTION: Call-response. Calls: "Bring me half a hoe run come go' me yah." "Bush-a want I fi go dig up pitatah." Responses: "Bring me half a hoe." "Bring me half a hoe come gi' me yah."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1981 (JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
KEYWORDS: farming work nonballad worksong | hoe
FOUND IN: West Indies(Jamaica)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Olive Lewin, _Rock It Come Over - The Folk Music of Jamaica_ (Barbados: The University of the West Indies Press, 2000), p. 96, "Bring Me Half a Hoe" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
unknown, "Half a Whole" (on JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
NOTES [37 words]: The current description follows Lewin. Lewin's second call says "Bush wants me to dig up potatoes"; this is a digging song. On JamaicaFaithWorkPlay almost all the calls are "Bring me half a hole/hoe[?] run come gimme yuh." - BS
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File: RcBMHaHo

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