Maroon Lullaby (Jamaica)
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Maroon Lullaby (Jamaica) Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by the Maroon communities of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, known for the abeng horn once used to send messages across the mountains. Jamaica’s Maroons descended from enslaved Africans who escaped into the mountains and fought the British to a standstill, winning a formal peace treaty in 1739 that granted them land and self-governance, rights their communities still hold today, and Nanny of the Maroons, a legendary military leader from that era, is now honored as one of Jamaica’s national heroes. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords.
Lyrics & chords
An original arrangement, with guitar & piano chords above each line.
Verse
What the words mean
Chords — guitar & piano
What “Maroon Lullaby (Jamaica)” Means
The Maroon communities of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, such as Accompong, are known for the abeng, a horn carved from cattle horn once used to send messages across the mountains. This original lullaby draws on those mountain and horn-signal images of Maroon life.
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- An original lullaby by Relax In No Time, inspired by the musical traditions of its region. The words, melody, arrangement and recording are ours.
- Recording and arrangement: real instruments played by hand, no AI music, by Relax In No Time.
- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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