Query: "Jango Lango tea" in an 1841 black minstrel song

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

     This is my fifth attempt to send the message below; I keep altering it in the hope the ads-l server will be mollified and stop finding a reason to reject it.  So here goes again:

      Does anyone in ads-l have any information on "Jango Lango tea"?  I received an inquiry about it from Norm Cohen (no relation), who informs me that it appears in a blackface minstrel song from 1841.  He asks: "Have you any references to this term?  Could it derive from Gullah, or does it just sound like nonsense?"

    Google presents a song with "Jango Lango tea," which turns out to have been the song Norm Cohen had in mind. In reply to my question about this he wrote me:  "Yes; in fact, I wrote that comment in notes to the abridged edition of Randolph's Ozark Folk Songs 20 years go.  (It's always amusing to google something and turn up your own work.)."

       "Jango Lango tea" appears in the last line, but there's something about this song that the ads-l server seems allergic to and my message is promptly rejected.  The song is available on Google (type in "Jango Lango tea").  I mentioned to Norm Cohen that I'd like to run a "Jango Lango tea" query by ads-l, and with his approval I now do so.  Any information/insight/etc. would be very much appreciated.  And my apologies for not being able to attach the two versions of the song.

Gerald Cohen

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