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Well, they often do that and then after that they [distortion] get in there but they [distortion]

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There sat another of his n-- with a big stick in his hand as if he was going to strike something. Even that the hole in the side of the barn where the [inaudible] was stored had looked as if a board had been torn off. He glanced over in the corner and there'n a pile of dead coons which looked like a hundred or so.

Would you do it again? Was it the same effect between a quarter mile [inaudible] do a quarter mile.

And, uh, what are you going to [inaudible]

Well now, how do you, was there somebody [inaudible].

Oh, I see, well sing that and don't do your hands [Inaudible].

[Inaudible] Just sitting down is alright. Well no, I want to get it close to you. I'm going to put it around here. Now, you just face in that direction. Talk right out. [Adjusts the microphone].

And these were the mule-skinners who were doing the singing? And what do they do? Sing the song while they were [inaudible]

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Will you sing that, will you repeat the point [inaudible]

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Uh, this one, this song is [distortion].

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What Mr. Gilberto [inaudible] just said is that he is manager of a Latin group now playing at the Cuban Club in Tampa Florida who are going to sing for you some of their traditional Cuban songs. I am the pianist of the unit, Art Pages, and will play some of them for you myself.

Uh, the melody that Estella [inaudible] will sing for you next is a typical Cuban melody. This is sung in the country by the peasants. It's probably uh . . . I don't know what to say.

Ok, ask her to stay up, go up there and [inaudible] on the piano

Uh, the Cuban persons use songs to call on their loved ones especially at night or in the morning. The song that Estella [inaudible] sang is one of them. Uh, roughly, it is morning and he is singing to his loved one and though he claims that the sun is just out and he can see everything clearly, it seems like there is nothing around until he's seen her [distortion].

[inaudible] Explain what that song tells us [inaudible]

And that song is part of the regular [inaudible] around cane?

Thank you, Mr. Pages [distortion].

That's right [laughter] [distortion].

The song you have just heard was sung by [inaudible] Martinez. The name of the song is 'Merce'. It is a different type of song that have been sung before, for this one is dance, in dance halls in Cuba, that is that rhythm. You have also heard some Cuban drums played by Roman [inaudible] and Mr. Delfino was playing gourds and I was at the piano, Art Pages.

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If you give me a chance. Would you cut it out? [Distortion]

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Can you stand up there and explain, give me names [inaudible]? The manager. Can you give his name?

Well, I don't know [distortion].

He just sing to her and telling her how much he loves her, and uh, i other words, uh, calling her to the window in order to start a conversation or something, a song to start a conversation [distortion].

This was done by Ramon [inaudible] a Cuban drummer.

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I learned it all in the [inaudible].

[inaudible] the last lines of that song, Mr. Roberts. Repeat it for me.

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Sweet Robin One Morning in May' [inaudible]

[Inaudible] down the well and he'd sit there down in the well and they'd call his name so when after he got a song up [inaudible] and he said it so much, he said, 'Is that your name, Betty?' Oh, he said, 'that's my name Betty.'

How a fellow knows about his name [Distortion] He'd look in the well and then see his picture in the well and he'd say [inaudible] He said these words [inaudible] 'Is that your name, Betty?' Oh, he said, 'that's my name Betty.' That was the first time he ever told anybody's name.

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Feel like I could give you a sample [inaudible]. I'm going to sing it now, eh?

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I was here in Florida and he was in Florida too [inaudible]

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[Inaudible] part of Abacos, yes.

About a hundred miles from Nassau [inaudible]

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