Harry — Belafonte- Day-o Lyrics Video

: The song gained a new generation of fans when its "six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch" line was sampled by Lil Wayne in his 2011 hit "6 Foot 7 Foot".

The lyrics capture the reality of Jamaican dockworkers who labored through the night loading heavy banana bunches onto ships. Harry Belafonte- Day-O Lyrics Video

Belafonte, a passionate civil rights activist, viewed the song as a "song about struggle, about black people in a colonized life doing the most grueling work". : The song gained a new generation of