DAY O" (Banana Boat Song) by the Black Irish Band

Sonora's Black Irish Band perform this old 1800s sea shanty/ work song live as a forebitter, at the historic Piper's Opera Hall in Virginia City, Nevada.
All Black Irish band songs can be found on Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, and Apple. To date the band has release 35 albums and has been together 35 years.
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican folk song. It is a call and response work song, from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. The lyrics describe how daylight has come, their shift is over, and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. This song is famous because of it's used in the movie- "Beetlejuice" also. Just don;'t sing it 3 xs....