Lyrics
(Jamaican folk song)
Call: Good morning to you, daughter*.
Response: Good morning to you, mother.
Call: What is your intention?
Response: I want to be a teacher.
Call: You can’t be a teacher.
Response: I must be a teacher.
All: Jump shamador, me darling,
Jump shamador me dear.
Jump shamador, me darling,
Jump shamador, me dear.
(spoken softly / whispered)
Jump shamador, jump shamador,
Jump shamador, jump shamador!
…lawyer…
…nurse…
…doctor…
…president…
…teacher…
…nurse…
*son
See also
- Country: Jamaica
- Subjects: names / multiple professions
- Dynamics: soft & loud
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Meter: 4
- Scale: major
- Timbre: voices
- Source: Smithsonian
- info about the song
YouTube
- Song with chords, Adapted Version with Name Game (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
