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Because the whole thing is, like, bugging me, anyhow.) The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing:. Well, you ruin the whole (Piercing.) record is what you do. Lyrics: Traditional Darling/Carey/Arkin Music: Traditional Darling/Carey/Arkin Played twice by the Grateful Dead in 1987. It`s too piercing.) Well, I got to do the shout. Well, I don`t see why-(No, it`s too piercing, man. Day O, day O Daylight come and me wan' go home Day, me say day, me say day, me say day Me say day, me say day O Daylight come and me wan' go home Work all night on a drink of rum (Daylight come and me wan' go home) Stack banana till the mornin' come (Daylight come and me wan' go home) Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me banana (Daylight come and me wan' go home) Come, Mister Tally Man, tally me. Six foot, seven foot (Hold it, man, hold it, hold it, man.) eight foot bunchĭaylight come (My ears, my ears, like, my ears.) and me wan' go home Lift six foot, seven foot (Hold it, man.)ĭaylight come and (Too loud, man, too loud.) me wan' go home The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. Me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day, me say day-o (No, no, no, stand over next to the guitar, man.) (Yeah, but try standing next to me, man.) Well, it`s authentic, uh, Calypso, uh, shout. It was even used as the wake-up call for astronauts on the Space Shuttle Atlantis in space in 1997, according to the Songerwriters Hall of Fame.(Wow, man, I`ll have to ask you not to shout like that.) “Day-O” transcended the 1950s and became a classic. He later took the stage name, “Lord Burgess,” when he started performing at venues such as the famed Village Vanguard in Manhattan.īurgie wrote about 35 songs for Belafonte, who is of Jamaican decent, including eight of the 11 songs on Belafonte’s 1956 album, “Calypso,” the first album in the United States to sell more than 1 million copies, according to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Bill to attend Julliard School, where he majored in voice. Day-O Lyrics Day-o, I say day-o Daylight’s coming and I want to go home Day-o, I say day-o Daylight’s coming and I want to go home Work all night till the morning comes Daylight’s coming. He served in all-black US Army battalion in World War II, according to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the used the G.I. “I thank God he lived this long,” Andrew Burgie said. He was 95.īurgie died Friday in Brooklyn, Andrew Burgie said Sunday in a phone interview with CNN.īurgie had lived a mostly healthy life, but had bouts with heart failure in the last few years, his son said. Me say day, me say day-o Work all night on a drink of rum Stack banana till de morning come Come. Irving Burgie, a singer and songwriter who penned lyrics for the classic tune, “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” which was made famous by Harry Belafonte, has died, his son said. Day-o, day-o Day, me say day, me say day, me say day.
