Night of the Wake, The

DESCRIPTION: The night of the wake people marched in the road for prayer. Buller pulled a razor. The people scattered: some pulled daggers and others ran. The singer says "I was going down de road And Buller bar me on the road ... Buller is a stabber"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage01)
KEYWORDS: violence death
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Dixon [Ebenezer] Philip, "De Night a de Wake" (on WITrinidadVillage01)
File: RcDPNotW

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