African folk music
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- Abiyoyo
Xhosa lullaby made popular via Pete Seeger's Abiyoyo story. The original is set in B minor. The song is pentatonic. - Daar kom die Alibama (1863)
Folk song in Afrikaans, created by black dockers who had witnessed, in the age of the American Civil War, the legendary confederate sloop-of-war Alabama. Original in E major sharp.