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Thread #27427   Message #336360
Posted By: Jon Freeman
07-Nov-00 - 09:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET
I have a version in Singing Together (BBC Schools Radio 1970):

Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quatty would sell.
Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quatty would sell.

Chorus
Oh Lord! Not a mite, not a bite
What a Saturday night
Oh Lord! Not a mite, not a bite
What a Saturday night

Everybody come a feel up, feel up
Not a quatty would sell
Everybody come a feel up, feel up
Not a quatty would sell

chorus

Make me call i'louder: akee! akee!
Red and pretty dem tan.
Lady, buy you Sunday morning breakfast:
Rice and ackee nyam gran'.

Notes given:

ackee - favourite Jamaican vegetable
quatty- penny halfpenny
dem tan - they are
nyam gran' - taste good.

Jon