PEACE CORPS - "MR. SHEAHAN GOODBYE" SONG

Jim Sheahan from Rhode Island was one of the first Peace Corps Volunteers. He served in Sierra Leone, West Africa, from 1961 to 1963. When it was time for him to return to the United States, his Sierra Leonean friends gave him a recorded farewell song in the local patois called "Krio." The song was written and sung by one of Sierra Leone's most famous troubadors, the late Ebenezer Calendar. Two years later, when ABC Television decided to broadcast a tribute to the Peace Corps, they included a new interpretation of the song "Mr. Sheahan Goodbye" sung by the well known entertainers Harry Belafonte and Dinah Shore.



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Loved it!  Sherrill Zoller

[madagascarjoan]

chills! joan mckniff, peace corps, colombia 63-65