Suriname folk-lore

[p. 701]

H. Songs from Haiti

[p. 703]

1. Religious Songs.¹

a) Rongol.

1 These examples of Haitian music were recorded when the ship from New York to Paramaribo called at Port-au-Prince. The deities to whom the songs are sung are all members of the Vaudou pantheon, and are of Daho-mean provenience. (See Dorsainvil, passim, for these deities). No translations of the words which are in Haitian French creole, are given; the songs are appended here because, as the only examples of recorded Haitian music available, they have value for the comparative study of Negro music.

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Ron-gol po al - le' (...................
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(3 times)