It's my understanding that they used an old calypso tune and wrote new lyrics to advance the storyline. There's an excellent cd, a compilation of Val Lewton horror movie scores, composed by Roy Webb, on the Marco Polo/Naxos label. "I Walked With A Zombie" is one of the movies featured but the tune, unfortunately, was not included. John Morgan, a friend of mine who worked on the restoration of the scores told me that the reason for this was because the disc was recorded in Bratislava and calypso singers were very hard to find!
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