Lyrics
(Jamaican folk song)
Refrain
Call: Chi chi bud, oh!
Response: Some ‘o dem a holler, some a bawl!
(repeat)
Call: Some a black bud,
Response: Some ‘o dem a holler, some a bawl!
Call: Some a black bud,
Response: Some ‘o dem a holler, some a bawl!
Call: Some a white bud,
Response: Some ‘o dem a holler, some a bawl!
Call: Some a beeny bud,
Response: Some ‘o dem a holler, some a bawl! Refrain
Some a lagga-head…
An a chickman chick…
Some a John crow…
An a docta bud… Refrain
English Translation – Flock of Birds, Oh
Flock of birds, oh
Some of them holler, some of them bawl (cry)
“bud” = bird
“John Crow” = jancro = Jamaican vulture
See also
- Country: Jamaica
- Form: call and response / ABA
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: mi, re, do
- Meter: 4
- Scale: Lydian
- Tones: d r m fi s l
- Source: Wee Sing Around the World,Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1994
- lyrics & info about the song
YouTube
- Song with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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