DESCRIPTION:
Winston Fleary: "Participants bring their grief before the gods, tying their bellies to show their distress and their mishaps."

Boula, Patrick "Khaki" John; kòt drum; James "Laka" Moses; foule, Elias "Push In" Mitchell
Chantwèls: Winston Fleary, Anthony Douglas
Dancers: "Donkey" (Lucian Duncan's cousin), who then wheels Donna Lendore, who dances and wheels George George (with handkerchief to dry one's tears)

Hele mwennn hele o
Lamama
Sala broule
Ay lamama
Ssala broule mama
Mama-mwennn
Bay mwennn broule

Rainbow, mwennn hele o
La mama mama mwennn
Pli broule
La mama-mwenn, mama-mwenn
Pli broule

Tombo-mwenn
Boy, mwenn broule

Weep, weep for me
My mother has died
And it burns
Let me burn

Rainbow, weep for me
My mother has died
[I don't have tears enough]

My tomb
Boy, this burns me, cuts me to the quick

WF: "Note well the ability of the illiterate composer to equal the great poet in the art of apostrophe: 'Rainbow, weep for me, my tears are now dried up.'"

Director/camera: John Melville Bishop; Sound/camera: John Horace Terry; Line producer: Naomi Hawes Bishop; Cultural liaisons: Geoffrey Clarfield, Mireille Charles; Producer: Anna Lomax Wood; Executive Producer, Kimberly Green; Transcriptions: Ronald Kephart; Comments and translations: Winston Fleary.

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