Take Me Away

DESCRIPTION: The singer is "a por boy going to war ... over the ocean." He asks to be taken to the parish, to Kingston, from there to Port Royal. Tell his mother they are taking her only son "to fight for our country"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1981 (JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
KEYWORDS: war parting nonballad mother
FOUND IN: West Indies(Jamaica)
RECORDINGS:
Aaron Walker, "Take Me Away" (on JamaicaFaithWorkPlay)
NOTES [74 words]: In his liner notes to JamaicaFaithWorkPlay Roberts writes, "A Jamaican version of a British ballad, complete with references to Port Royal and other local geographical features. The singer, 76 at the time of the recording, learned the song during the First World Was, but is probably a good deal older than that." I don't know if Roberts is saying that he knows a British ballad that is the basis for "Take Me Away." I don't know such a ballad. - BS
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