Banana Boat Song

It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.

Banana boat song. The lyrics describe how daylight has come their shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so. It is a work song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Day o day o day light come and me wanna go home. Lyrics to banana boat song by harry belafonte.

Day light s come and they want to go home. Day o the banana boat song is a traditional jamaican folk song the best known version of which was sung by harry belafonte and is the most well known calypso. Harry belafonte banana boat day o 1956. Day o the banana boat song is a traditional jamaican folk song the song has mento influences but it is commonly classified as an example of the better known calypso music.

It s harry belafonte s biggest hit as preformed by a bunch of monkeys.