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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
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Genre: calypso
Culture: Afro-Trinidadian, Trinidad
Instruments: bass (double), cuatro, flute, guitar, percussion, violin, voice
Setting: 19 Gloster Lodge Road
Location: Port of Spain, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1227
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: T1227R01
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).
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Belongs to: Port-of-Spain 8/62
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