The Real Bahamas, Vol. 1 - Won't That Be A Happy Time

performed by Louise and Joseph Spence recorded in June, 1965 in the Bahamas by Peter K. Siegel and Jody Stecher "Won't That Be a Happy Time" is not a Bahamian song at all. Spence and his wife Louise learned it from a shaped-note hymnal, Harmony Heaven, published by James D. Vaughan, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Several American books of this type are to be found in the Bahamas in great abundance. "Can you read music, Spence?" (Everyone calls him "Spence" - even his wife, even his sister.) "No, I cannot read music." "How did you learn this song?" "From this book, mon. There's a lot of funny songs in this book. Lot of funny songs." "But if you can't read notes, how did you learn the melody to this song?" "I's talented."