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Thread #40845   Message #3189751
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Jul-11 - 08:57 PM
Thread Name: ADD: jamaican folk music
Subject: RE: ADD: jamaican folk music
Lyr. Add: WHEN YOU SEE ONE PRETTY GAL

When you see one pretty gal (3x)
You tek you finger call her.
2
When you see one ugly one (3x)
You cut you eye an' pass her.
3
You wheel her roun' an' twist her roun' (3x)
For kisses go by favour.
4
Hampton girl going marry to you
Going to marry to you, going to marry to you
Hampton girl going to marry to you
For kisses go by favour.
5
Dis is the way my money go (3x)
For kisses go by favour.

A variant of the Ugly Gal previously posted.

P. 107, with musical score.
Olive Lewin, coll., 1973, Forty Folk Songs of Jamaica, General Secretariat of the OAS, Washington, D.C.