Hodge family: Oh Lady, You're Mashing Me Toe

Joseph, Lizbeth, James, Ernest, and Cyril Hodge and friends perform "Oh Lady, You're Mashing Me Toe" at Copse Eastern, Anguilla, July 5, 1962. (Lead singers and accordion player unidentified.) Recorded by Alan Lomax, J.D. Elder, and Antoinette Marchand. For more from the Lomax collections, visit archive.cultura.... [1147R03]

[@rburly]

We’re so fortunate to have These recordings.

[@ephre]

beautiful.

[@glenpierce777]

Fantastic.

[@______638]

more uploads please!!!

[@eternalbeing3339]

This has to be rare.

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

i wish there was a visual recording as well

[@Paulftate]

new to me... 👍

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

is that the accordion playing 💯

[@janegrassmarket1414]

💗❤💗❤

[@-Pol-]

No, what are they really singing? What language is it? someone, surely can offer a translation?

[@JohnyG29]

I assume English isn't your first language as what they're saying is quite understandable. They just repeat "oh Lady, you're mashing my toe". Over and over. They sometimes change it to "oh Lady, you're taking me back", or "oh Lady, why are you treating me so?".

[@DULLKNOLL]

O'lady.... you're smashing me goat

[@jtab4994]

Come on, man! There are only two lines, and the first line is the song title. The second line is "you treating me bad ". I suppose Mashing Me Toe is a local idiom in Anguilla.

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

it’s English, Caribbean dialect/accent

[@superdeluxesmell]

😂😂Absolutely terrible

[@divingduck1970]

Nobody involved remembers recording this.

[@deanthemachine96]

What makes it terrible?

[@superdeluxesmell]

@@deanthemachine96The fact that they’re all out of tune, out of rhythm and the lyrics are nonsensical. The person trying to drag a simple tune out of the accordion is failing terribly. It’s objectively awful in every way. Do you think it’s good? If so, why?

[@Ronaldo-rt7hl]

@@superdeluxesmell they are on beat and the lyrics make sense you just don’t understand and that’s fine it’s not for you