Lyr. Add: ME LOVER GONE A COLON BAY
Jamaican folk song

Me lover gone a Colon Bay,
Colon Bay, Colon Bay,
Me lover gone a Colon Bay
With a handsome concentina.

Oh what is your intention,
intention, intention?
Oh what is your intention?
My intention is to marry you.

I will married to you,
I will married to you,
I will married to you,
I will married to you,
I will married to you,
I will married to you,
With a handsome concentina.

With musical score.
Sung with a dance in which the dancers whirl around, "the wheeling becomes a giddy business..... The dancers never seem to feel it, nor do they appear to mind the heat. They simply stream with perspiration and put their handkerchiefs round their necks to save their white collars."

Walter Jekyll, 1904, Jamaican Song and Story, CXII.

A little breathing time is given by:-

Lyr. Add: GOOD MORNING TO YOU, MOTHER

Good morning to you, mother;
Good morning to you, daughter;
What is your intention?
I want to be a teacher.
You shan't be a teacher.
I bound to be a teacher.

Jump shamador, me darling.

What is your intention?
I goin' to be a doctor.
You shan't be a doctor.
I bound to be a doctor.
You shan't be a doctor.
I will be a doctor.

Jump shamadir, me darling.

With musical score. CXII
There is no dancing here. The mother walks round inside the ring, the various members of which she addresses in turn. "You shan't" is emphasized by an uplifted arm swept vigorously downwards and a stamp of the foot. The answers go through the various professions until it is felt that there is a want of something more exciting, which is supplied by:-".....
[CXIII]
Some 80 Dancing Tunes are given in the book, many of which are joined together as they might be at an actual party.

Walter Jekyll, 1904, Jamaican Song and Story..., Publications of the Folk-Lore Society LV. Reprint by Dover.