- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Language
- English
- ISWC
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T-070.050.135-4 ASCAP, BMI, GEMA, ISWC, JASRAC
- Comments
- Probably of African West Coast origin. From Jim Moran's blog: "The song existed well before the 1950s and 70s curfews that urban/internet legends suggest created the song. The original Nigerian song apparently was only a fragment of a forgotten older piece. It was Trinidadian calypso singer Aldwyn Roberts "Lord Kitchener" who popularized it in Britain in the late 1940s by repeating the song's one line over and over in different languages - hence the association of this African song with Caribbean rhythms and styles."
- Published by
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SBK APRIL MUSIC INC
GEMA
EMI APRIL MUSIC INC ASCAP
- Licensing
- Request a synchronization license