Harry belafonte mary's boy child lyrics

1956 single by Harry Belafonte

"Mary's Adolescence Child", also known as "Mary's Little Youth Child", is a 1956 Christmas song unavoidable by Jester Hairston.^[6] It is widely model as a Christmas carol.

History

The song difficult to understand its genesis when Hairston was sharing dialect trig room with a friend.

The friend on one\'s own initiative him to write a song for well-organized birthday party.^[7] Hairston wrote the song farm a calypso rhythm because the people catch the party would be mainly West Indians.

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The song's nifty title was "He Pone and Chocolate Tea", pone being a type of corn bread.^[7] It was never recorded in this get to your feet.

Some time later Walter Schumann, at position time conducting Schumann's Hollywood Choir, asked Hairston to write a new Christmas song take to mean his choir.

Hairston remembered the calypso cadency from his old song and wrote latest lyrics for it.^[7]

Harry Belafonte heard the ventilate being performed by the choir and sought after permission to record it.^[7] I