About this minute
- Title
- The Shores of Hispaniola
- Creator
- Nancy Kerr
- Contributor
- English Folk Dance and Song Society
- Year
- 1558 – 1603
- Collections
- Collection 3
Collection 3 #48
You just heard part of a song called ‘The Shores of Hispaniola’. Even though the song is quite new, it was written to tell a story from the time of Queen Elizabeth the First, over 500 years ago. This song is very sad, because it tells the story of a person from Sierra Leone in…