Lyr. Add: RATTY TICK

1
Have you heard about Ratty Tick?
Have you heard what she done?
Ratty Tick tek up Leslie watch
An' up de hill she run.
Brewster was workin' in his groun'
Saw Ratty Tick runnin', tumble-in down.
2
T'ought somebody had been drown,
Watchin' her trousers droppin' down,
Ratty girl if I did you,
Uh would hide muhself beneath a shoe,
Fuh de tiefin' deed dat yuh serve Leslie,
Yuh name shall be written in history.

A banter song, a village woman is taunted about the alleged theft of a watch.

No. 58, with musical score and chords.
T. Marshall, P. McGeary and G. Thompson, 1981 and reprints, Folk Songs of Barbados, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica.