Banana Boat Song: Harry Belafonte (1956)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) Single: Harry Belafonte Album: Calypso Language: Jamaican Patois B-side: "Star-O" Released: 1956 Genre: Mento Songwriters: Traditional, arranged: Harry Belafonte, William Attaway, Lord Burgess "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is traditional Jamaican folk music, a call-and-response song of dock workers loading bananas onto ships. The daylight's come, the shift is over, and they want their work counted and to go home.