JAMAICAN SONG AND STORY Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes. With introductory essays.
Walter Jekyll, coll. and edit., 1904 (Dover reprints), The Folk-lore Society, LV.
Part I Annancy Stories. 51 stories, (cf. Joel Chandler Harris coll.), many with brief musical scores. Annancy and Brother Tiger etc.
Part II Digging Sings Oh hurrah, boys! Ho biddybye Tell Mr. Linky Tell Mr. Bell Bad homan oh! Bell a ring a yard oh! The one shirt I have Jessie cut him yoke T'ree acre of Cahffee Away, away Wednesday morning before day Oh Samuel oh! Oh 'liza oh! Aunty Mary oh! Oh me yerry news! Jes' so me barn Tell Mary say Me tell them gall Gold, amber gold Gee, oh mother Mac Leah married a Tuesday Cheer me oh! Me cock a crow Oh Selina! Sambo Lady John Thomas Whé mumma dé! Toady Me know the man Minnie You want to yerry Duppy talk Me know Sarah Me donkey want water A Somerset me barn Timber lay don 'pon pit Me want go home War down a Monkhead
Part III Ring Tunes Little Sally Water Poor Little Zeddy Whé me lover dé? Ring a diamond Carry Banana Pass the ball Me los' me gold ring Old Mother Phoebe Deggy Me go da Galloway Road Rosybel Bull a pen ho! Two man a road Adina Mona Palmer Mother Freeman Me have me goosey a me yard Drill him, Constab! If you make him come out Oh me Toad oh! There's a black boy in a ring Johnny Me lover gone a Colon bay Good morning to you, mother Johnny Millar Bahlimbo Oh den Jacky Ha, ha, ha, ha!