Crop Over Lullaby
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Crop Over Lullaby Lyrics. An original lullaby inspired by Crop Over, Barbados’s biggest festival, celebrating the end of the sugarcane harvest. Crop Over traces its roots back to the 1780s, making it one of the oldest festivals in the Caribbean, and it builds toward Grand Kadooment, a final day of costumed parades and music that closes out the celebration each summer. 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 “Crop Over Lullaby” Means
Crop Over, Barbados’s biggest festival, celebrates the end of the sugarcane harvest with calypso music, costumes, and street parades dating back to the island’s plantation era. This original lullaby draws on those sugarcane-field and festival images of Bajan 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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