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Period referred to: 1974
Sound category: Religious > Church music and song
Title of work: Soft City
Type of publication: Popular sociology
Author: Jonathan Raban
Year of publication: 1974
Page/volume number: Chapter 8
Song from a Caribbean church in 1970s Islington
On Saturday mornings, the West Indians had the pavement outside the pub to themselves, and called to the black girls coming out of the service at the shout-and-holler gospel tabernacle across the road, in their white dresses and tight curls.
'Rosee!'
'Mary-lyn!'
'Gay-lee!'
'Oh, man.'
A sardonic toast, in rum and Guinness in the sun. Before the pub opened in the morning, you could hear the singing – 'Sweet Jes-us,' languorous and seductive, as if the Saviour was being cajoled out of bed or bar – and the movement of the bodies inside, pile drivers in muslin, stirring and shaking in the thin walls.