# Dayyyy - O **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566 "2003-10-20T19:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/1 "2003-10-20T19:34:49Z")
On October 20th, 1955, Harry Belafonte recorded the Banana Boat Song, aka “Day-O.” C’mon, everybody _sing!_ “Daylight come and me wan’ go home!..” ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/2 "2003-10-20T19:55:12Z")
:: scribbles **a35362** on my shit list :: Well, thanks, now that will be stuck in my head for days. And **Beetlejuice** , too. I guess I’ll have to torment my son (age 5) with it. He **hates** it when I sing that song. _Come Mr. Tally-man, tally me bananas…_ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/3 "2003-10-20T19:58:41Z")
I also loved “Mama Looka Booboo”. “That is your daddy”. “Oh no! My daddy can’t be ugly so!” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/4 "2003-10-20T20:20:24Z")
I always thought it odd that Alan Arkin either wrote or helped write that song. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/5 "2003-10-21T00:29:39Z")
This thread brings the semi-famous **Day-O Singers** of Key West to mind. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/6 "2003-10-21T02:30:54Z")
“In excelsis Day-ay-oh…” “Day-o. Day-ay-ay-o…” ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/7 "2003-10-21T05:50:03Z")
Day-o one day sale, one day only at the Bon Marché Woohoo! I’m going to hell! ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/8 "2003-10-21T07:27:31Z")
Anybody here heard of [html=“[http://www.bulaia.com/](http://www.bulaia.com/)”]Bu La’ia? ```auto "Daaaaay old... Daay-ay old poi. Day-old poi and I like some now!" Also the man behind such Hawaiian-flavored parodies as "Oh Punani" and "No Pu' Inside." ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/9 "2003-10-21T07:29:01Z")
[Damn.](http://www.bulaia.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/10 "2003-10-21T07:45:16Z")
The Tarriers, of which Alan Arkin was a member, charted with the song before Harry Belafonte did. Belafonte had a bigger hit with it, though. I believe the song is an adaptation of a traditional one. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/11 "2003-10-21T11:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*_Come Mr. Tally-man, tally me bananas…_ \*\* _Daylight come, and me wan’ go home._ One of my other Belafonte favourites is “Mathilda”. So… **EVERYBODY!!!** Mathilda. Mathilda. She take me money and run Venezuela! (Now I’m going to have both those songs rattling around my skull for the rest of the week.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/12 "2003-10-21T12:29:59Z")
Do any of you know who besides Belafonte did a song with either the title or some lyrics that went something like: “Go 'way from my window Go 'way from my door Go 'way from my bedside And bother me no more And bother me no more…” I have the sound image of somebody like Judy Collins or maybe Helen Reddy singing something with similar lyrics and melody. I have thus far not been able to get a hit on any of the lyrics sites I know of. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/13 "2003-10-21T12:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slainte \* > \*\*This thread brings the semi-famous **Day-O Singers** of Key West to mind. > > 😃 \*\* Whaddyou mean “semi-famous”? They’re an international sensation. They’re the single most dynamic act in Calypso music today. If you’ve never heard of them, it’s because you don’t _deserve_ to have heard of them. You. Are. Not. Worthy. (Not _you_, **Slainte**. Of course you’re worthy, you’re in the know.) ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/14 "2003-10-21T13:03:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mycroft Holmes \* > \*\*_Daylight come, and me wan’ go home._ > > One of my other Belafonte favourites is “Mathilda”. So… > > **EVERYBODY!!!** > Mathilda. > Mathilda. > She take me money and run Venezuela! > (Now I’m going to have both those songs rattling around my skull for the rest of the week.) \*\* “Run Venezuela,” eh? I have a tape in my Grateful Dead collection with Jerry Garcia singing this song, and I always wondered what the end of the “she take my money” line was. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/15 "2003-10-21T17:44:04Z")
Where’s the link to the Colin Powell version? _Come, Mr. Taliban, turn over bin Laden…_ ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/16 "2003-10-21T20:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuauhtemoc \* > \*\*Whaddyou mean “semi-famous”? They’re an international sensation. They’re the single most dynamic act in Calypso music today. If you’ve never heard of them, it’s because you don’t _deserve_ to have heard of them. You. Are. Not. Worthy. (Not _you_, **Slainte**. Of course you’re worthy, you’re in the know.) \*\* You have a good point there - I retract my “semi-famous” comment. In fact, they are _so_ famous that perhaps only **Crazy Cat** rivals them. And I’m only in-the-know because I have cool friends. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/17 "2003-10-21T20:41:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Well, thanks, now that will be stuck in my head for days. \*\* Yair, but you could do worse. It’s still a cool, cool song. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/18 "2003-10-22T01:28:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*I always thought it odd that Alan Arkin either wrote or helped write that song. \*\* I’m still trying to figure out why William Saroyan co-wrote “Come On-A My House”, myself. ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/19 "2003-10-22T03:18:56Z")
while not as classic as Belafonte’s Day-o it’s just as hard to get out of your head: “King of the Bongo” by Manu Chao ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dayyyy-o/208566/20 "2003-10-22T20:17:07Z")
It’s too piercing, man, it’s too piercing. And, I mean, ooo, like I don’t dig spiders, man. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > Do any of you know who besides Belafonte did a song with either the title or some lyrics that went something like: > > “Go 'way from my window > Go 'way from my door > Go 'way from my bedside > And bother me no more > And bother me no more…” > > I have the sound image of somebody like Judy Collins or maybe Helen Reddy singing something with similar lyrics and melody. I have thus far not been able to get a hit on any of the lyrics sites I know of. Seriously, I know Marlene Dietrich did a version of that. Have you tried searching on “go away”?