tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post5846191789842910186..comments2024-03-28T04:13:55.692-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Two Videos of the Belizean Christmas Song "Good Mawnin' Miss Lady"Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-66122263460348206362018-01-16T18:43:03.241-05:002018-01-16T18:43:03.241-05:00My mom used to sing this song this way:
Good morn...My mom used to sing this song this way:<br /><br />Good morning miss lady<br />How are you this morning<br />Come to lodge a complaint on this fine Christmas Morning<br />(Someone) has a baby and put it in the slop pan<br />Busy bee was passing and stung him on the bottom. <br /><br />The song above sound similar but I don’t think they are saying slop pan. <br />Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873908760883109617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-88517381093044094032016-12-21T19:11:09.390-05:002016-12-21T19:11:09.390-05:00Thanks for finding and sharing information about t...Thanks for finding and sharing information about that website, slam2011. In the interest of the folkloric record, here's a longer excerpt from that site <a href="https://loudloudworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/village-on-the-end-of-a-spit/" rel="nofollow">https://loudloudworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/village-on-the-end-of-a-spit/</a> Village on the End of a Spit<br />Posted on October 20, 2012 by loudloudworld<br />"....There is, in fact, another extant form of Kriol music which more closely resembles the old bottle and stick brukdown than does the hand drums of Gales Point. This is the music played by participants in the Christmas season tradition known as bram. Bram is essentially door-to-door caroling, Caribbean style. Throughout Kriol towns and villages in Belize, groups of musicians roam their neighborhoods, playing and singing at every door in hopes of some small change and a little rum. Instrumentation is not regimented and the players will use whatever is at hand: Accordions, guitars, banjos, washboards, scrapers, a kitchen fork and grater, donkey jawbones with teeth intact (a surprisingly common instrument down south), maracas, and bottles and sticks. I even heard of one man who had made an art out of playing a glass Fanta bottle by taking advantage of the raised rings on the lower half of the bottle (which is absolutely ubiquitous in Belize incidentally). The rings provides a percussive surface on par with any washboard, and his friends were enthusiastic about the fellow’s abilities … “Man, he can make sounds with that thing you would not believe … he can make it sing … I tell you he can play melodies!”<br /><br />Incidentally, the first song always sung by a bram group upon entering a neighbor’s home is always the same, Good Morning Miss Lady / (“Hadey”?), and the lyrics seem an obvious reflection upon how the tradition may have actually started … as a petition, by the commoners of England–and later by the slaves of Belize–to their lords or overseers, to partake in a little of the Christmas cheer.<br /><br />Good Morning Miss Lady / (“Hadey”?)<br />How are you this morning?<br />I come to make a complaint<br />On this merry Christmas morning"....Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-19190538854186285392016-12-21T17:36:03.752-05:002016-12-21T17:36:03.752-05:00On a website called Loud Loud World there's a ...On a website called Loud Loud World there's a <a href="https://loudloudworld.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/village-on-the-end-of-a-spit/" rel="nofollow">page</a> that gives the first verse of this song as:<br /><br />Good Morning Miss Lady / (“Hadey”?)<br />How are you this morning?<br />I come to make a complaint<br />On this merry Christmas morning<br /><br />The blogger seems to think it's part of a sort of carolling tradition. It's the carollers' usual introductory song.<br /><br />The next verse seems to be about someone hiding in the long grass?<br />slam2011https://www.blogger.com/profile/03112153426493772446noreply@blogger.com