Belafonte, a passionate civil rights activist, viewed the song as a "song about struggle, about black people in a colonized life doing the most grueling work".
The lyrics capture the reality of Jamaican dockworkers who labored through the night loading heavy banana bunches onto ships. Harry Belafonte- Day-O Lyrics Video
: It has been performed in varied settings, from The Muppet Show with Harry Belafonte himself to being used as a distraction in Legends of Tomorrow . Belafonte, a passionate civil rights activist, viewed the