Audio file

Title: Bury Boula For Me
Date recorded: August 17, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Calypso group; Performer: Williams, Emmanuel; Performer: Phipps, Randolph; Performer: Moses, Vivian; Performer: Mira, Samuel; Performer: Marcano, Neville (Growling Tiger); Performer: Gervais, Paul; Performer: Charles, Robert; Performer: Charles, Ralph; Performer: Brito, Eugene; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: calypso
Instruments: bass (double), cuatro, flute, guitar, percussion, violin, voice
Culture: Afro-Trinidadian, Trinidad

Subject(s):

Note: Call-and-response between the lead singer and chorus. Some members of the chorus sing in parallel harmony. Note about song: “Bones Road is where the burying-ground for those who have died by hanging is situated. [Boula] was a notorious criminal who was eventually tried for murder and hanged” (Field Log).
Setting: 19 Gloster Lodge Road

Location: Port of Spain, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Archive ID: T1227R01

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1227
Track: 1

Part of: Port-of-Spain 8/62

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