I Saw the Lighthouse

DESCRIPTION: "I saw the light house amen, I saw the light house amen, I saw the light house, It cast a great light, I hope to live there amen."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1981 (JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious | lighthouse
FOUND IN: West Indies(Jamaica)
RECORDINGS:
Revival Zion pastor and congregation, "I Saw the Lighthouse" (on JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
NOTES [133 words]: The JamaicaFaithWorkPlay track begins like a "shout," with harmonies, fast beat, clapping and drums, but maintains the same tone and pace through out the three and a half minutes of repetition of the one verse, though the drumming varies without speeding up. In his liner notes to JamaicaFaithWorkPlay Roberts describes the track as a "chorus" "sung (as is usual) to drumming of European provenance but African flair." It would have helped if Roberts, either in his liner notes or in Black Music of Two Worlds (New York: Original Music, 1972) -- where he does analyze musical roots of Caribbean music (Black Music of Two Worlds, pp. 93-128) -- had explained the European roots he hears in the drumming on this track or in Jamaican music (see Black Music of Two Worlds, pp. 119-133) generally. - BS
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