131. “Day O (The Banana Boat Song)” is a traditional Jamaican folk song that was made famous by Harry Belafonte in 1956. Belafonte’s version remains the most popular calypso song in America. The song is about dock workers who worked through the night loading bananas onto ships. As daylight approached, they waited for the arrival of the person who takes inventory so they can go home. “Come Mister tally man, tally me banana / Daylight come and we want go home.”
