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Thread #40845 Message #3167203
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Jun-11 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: ADD: jamaican folk music
Subject: Lyr Add: Teacher Lick de Gal (Jamaica)
Lyr. Add: Teacher Lick de Gal Jamaican folk song
One shif' me got,- Ratta cut i', Same place i' cut,- Muma patch i', Same place i' patch,- Fyah bun i' Teacher lick de gal, I' tun right ovah. Teacher lick de gal I' tun right ovah.
Hole him roun' him waia' Madda Tracy, Hole him roun' him wais' Madda tracy, Hole him roun' him waia' Madda Tracy, Teacher lich de gal I' tun right ovah. Teacher lick de gal I' tun right ovah. Teacher lick de gal I' tun right ovah.
Wen de gal muma Hole him fe beat him, Wen de gal muma Hole him fe beat him, Wen de gal muma Hole him fe beat him, Fine two an' sixpence Tie pon him nabel Fine two an' sixpence Tie pon him nabel Fine two an' sixpence Tie pon him nabel.
Tan tan tan Mek me tell yuh, Tan tan tan Mek me tell yuh, Tan tan tan Mek me tell yuh, Bitta Cassava Kill Joe Brownie Bitta Cassava Renkin poison. Bita Cassava Renkin poison.
With musical score. Tom Murray, edit. and arr. by, 1952, Folk Songs of Jamaica, Oxford Press. Copied in Jim Morse, 1958, Coll., Folk Songs of the Caribbean, Bantam Books New York, used by permission. Pp. 110-111.
Recorded by Edric Connor, 1958, "Songs from Jamaica."