Congo Justina

DESCRIPTION: Who would marry Congo Justina? Her face is like a whale and she's just come from jail. The chorus is a dance instruction: "Leh go me hand / Leh me balance meself"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage01)
KEYWORDS: marriage humorous nonballad
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Victoria Phillip and Dixon [Ebenezer] Philip, "Congo Justina" (on WITrinidadVillage01)
File: RcCongJu

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