Texas Sailor Coming Down

DESCRIPTION: Call and response: response is "Texas sailor coming down the road, you will see them"; calls include "we coming to get the prize on the road," "is the biggest banner round the town," "when you see we you got to run"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage01)
KEYWORDS: bragging disguise ritual music nonballad
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits, _Trinidad Village_ (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), p. 283, "(Texas sailor comin' down)" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Dixon [Ebenezr] Philip, "Texas Sailor Coming Down the Road" (on WITrinidadVillage01)
NOTES [74 words]: This is a Trinidadian Carnival song that is not in the pattern of the "tent" road marches that have come to represent commercial pre-soca calypso. The liner notes describe battle songs between masquerading bands from the early 20th century (Donald R. Hill, Maureeen Warner-Lewis, John Cowley, Lise Winer, liner notes on WITrinidadVillage01; also see Donald R. Hill, Calypso Calaloo (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993), p. 56). - BS
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