Lyr. Add: ME CARRY ME ACKEE A LINSTEAD MARKET Original folk version, coll. before 1907.
Me carry me ackee a Linstead Market, Not a quatty worth sell. Oh, what a losses ! Not a quatty worth sell. Me carry me ackee a Linstead market, Not a quatty worth sell. Oh, not a light, not a bite ! Not a quatty worth sell.
CXXI, pp. 219-220, with musical score; a 'Dancing tune'. The ackee is edible, but has a red capsule which is poisonous; death by "misadventure through carelessness" in its preparation is not uncommon. A dance of the '5th figure', the step regulated by two beats in the bar of six; also danced in 3/4 time.
Walter Jekyll, 1907, Jamaican Song and Story; reprint Dover.