"She Began to Lie" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	Music from the Paramount feature film "The General's Daughter" soundtrack; also Levi's "Escape" commercial
	MP3.com CD: Now There Is A Tree of Ghosts - buy it! CD: Now There is a Tree of Ghosts   Label: Exoteric Music Credits: Trad.Arr.Jones featuring Christine and Katherine Shipp
	Story Behind the Song Vocal source: "sea Lion Woman" sung by Christine and Katherine Shipp (Byhalia, Mississippi 1939- from Rounder CD 1500 "A Treasury Of Library Of Congress Field Recordings.") A children's chant edited and set to music. Since "sea lion woman" doesn't make any real sense in English, the phrase "sea lion," or "Sea Lion woman" is probably a corruption of an African word or phrase. Here are some possibilities for the original meaning: se lauwila (Bantu) " I tell a dream" "se" introduces direct discourse in the first person "Lauwila" means to tell a dream, recount a dream or sela woman "married woman" or "pregnant woman" "sela" means to cohabit, marry, expand or swell up or zela woman "pale woman" or imperative "tell all, woman" In addition to these possibilities there are the wonderful (unintended?) double meanings in English (She lyin, She lie, etc). Thanks to "The African Heritage of American English" by Joseph E.Holloway and Winifred K. Vass (Indiana University Press).ˇ Lyrics SEA LION WOMAN* Sea lion woman, See lie, She drink coffee. See lie, She drink tea, See lie, And the gander lie, See lie Way down yonder Hind the log, And the rooster crowed, And the gander lied. * - See lyin' (?)

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