Stupid Guest Tricks

Do you mean Mister Banjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHuk3yfkeW4

MICHIE BANJO, a Creole dance-song for the bamboula, a dance which came to Louisiana from Haiti. Beatrice Landeck published Michie Banjo in Echoes of Africa, and, regarding the bamboula, she writes that “as in all African dances, large groups of people take part, singing, dancing, clapping hands and stamping feet, or patting out a complicated rhythm on knees or thighs.”

http://imslp.org/wiki/User:Clark_Kimber ... al_Notes_1

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/negro ... 200219.htm

Michie Banjo--I don't remember our singing it, but I remember reading the lyrics in our songbook, with the illustration. The refrain went, "Don't he look sweet, struttin' down the street!"

felinefan wrote:Michie Banjo--I don't remember our singing it, but I remember reading the lyrics in our songbook, with the illustration. The refrain went, "Don't he look sweet, struttin' down the street!"

It was a French Creole song and the translation over years has been toned down from a Darky all dressed up and sturring down the street to more socially acceptable wording. Same thing as it is about a dude who spends all his money looking fine and then struts around showing of his fine clothes. My uncle worked with guys like that who would strut around town all dressed up then show up to work with cheap clothes and broken down work shoes.