XPost: rec.music.afro-latin, rec.music.collecting.misc   
   From: kaysee66@att.net   
      
   The song is actually labelled "traditional".  IOW, some hapless Jamaican   
   banana farmer made it up and it became a popular ditty to sing while you   
   were cutting bananas.   
      
   kaysee   
      
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   > "tailspin1"  wrote in message   
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   >>If I were in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Jamaica I   
   >> would ask Mr. Belefonte myself and while I were at it, I could also   
   >> establish whether I have infringed his rights in playing the music to the   
   >> children.   
   >   
   > Is that where he lives? Are you sure? Also, I don't think Mr. Belafonte is   
   > the composer of that song, just perhaps made the most well-known recording   
   > of it.   
   >   
   > You should buy a recording of it, to introduce the music to the children.   
   >   
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