Info
This song is described as a “nonsense song.” (Connor)
Lyrics
(Folk song from Trinidad)
I went down de road to buy brown paper,
Magazina me and you
Magazina de Queen of de Sheba,
Magazina me and you
Oh way down dey, wayp C minor,
Wayp C minor, wayp C minor,
Way down dey, wayp C minor,
Roo-goo-roo-goo, roo-goo-roo-goo, zook uhuhn!
Roo-goo-roo-goo, roo-goo-roo-goo, zook oh!
Roo-goo-roo-goo, roo-goo-roo-goo, zook uhuhn!
Roo-goo-roo-goo, roo-goo-roo-goo, zook eh!
Repeat, end with:
Roo-goo-roo-goo, roo-goo-roo-goo, zook bah!
See also
- Country: Trinidad & Tobago
- Subject: silly
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: anacrusis / syncopation
- Scale: major
- Source: Songs from Trinidad, Edric Connor, Oxford University Press, 1958
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
