O, Babylon!

• World Premiere (1988)
• Original London Production (1988) *
  London, England

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Original score

• Dem Get Rufus
• Babylon!
• Zion a Come
• Your Locks Are Holy
  • aka My Locks Are Holy [no note]
• Green for the Pastures
• Some Evenings
  • aka Jerusalem, That's All [no note]
• How I Love Thee
• Tell the Deacon
• Boonoonoonous Woman
  • aka Bonus Woman [no note]
• You Go a Little Way
• Ginnal, Ginnal
  • aka Trickster [no note]
• We Little Nations
• Don't Tell Me About Zion
  • aka Don't Tell Me About Eden [no note]
• Pretoria
• Man of Anger
• In My Youth
• How Beautiful Are the Breathern
• Hold On Hard Girl
  • aka Hold Hard [no note]
• Me A'Strolling By Parade
  • aka Me-A-Strollin' [no note]
• Unjust City, The
• De Pressure
• What Dem Have in Babylon
• Forgive Me Gyal
• Come with Me to the Mountains
  • aka Come with Me to the Mountain [no note]
• Mabrak

Added after UK opening

• Dollar and the Big Apple Tree, The

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1980)
  

  • Carl Hall
  • Cheryl Barnes
  • David Johnson (i)
  • Sheila Gibbs
  • Mel Novik

Originally performed by Derek Walcott's Theatre Workshop in Trinidad in 1976 and the Jamaican Carrifest the following summer.