Note: This song may be related to the spirituals "Motherless Child" and "O Peter, Go Ring Them Bells." During a Bahamian wake, it is sung between three and four o'clock, the last time that the relatives will see the body.
About the session: Songs performed by and interviews with Bahamian sponge-fisherman Emperor Mackenzie and two unidentified men.
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