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Posted By: MorwenEdhelwen1
14-Nov-11 - 07:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Mattie Rag meanings (Jamaican Mento)
Subject: RE: Origins: Mattie Rag meanings (Jamaican Mento)

If anyone is still interested- another suggestion is that it refers to the narrator and his/her father stealing mangoes, or that it refers to "rag" as in "ragtime"- influenced by music from America.