<P> "Shame and Scandal in the Family", also known as "Shame & Scandal" for short, is a song written by calypso singer Sir Lancelot for the movie I Walked with a Zombie in 1943 and originally titled "Fort Holland Calypso Song". Sir Lancelot issued his recording of it in the late 1940s . The Sir Lancelot version was covered by folksingers Odetta and Burl Ives . In 1962, Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Melody wrote new lyrics for the verses while keeping the melody and the chorus . The Historical Museum of Southern Florida said of Lord Melody's version that "No calypso has been more extensively recorded". </P> <P> In Sir Lancelot's version, the lyric reports gossip about a prominent family on a Caribbean island named San Sebastian . </P>

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