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07 Nov 00 - 08:43 PM (#336319) Subject: Lyr Add: LINSTEAD MARKET (trad Calypso) From: MMario From John_in_Brisbane LINSTEAD MARKET (traditional Calypso) He promised to meet me at Linstead Market take me out to a show He promised to meet me at Linstead Market take me out to a show I tell you, OH! what a night, what a night Oh what a Saturday night I tell-a you OH! What a night, what a night Oh what a Saturday night I waited and waited at Linstead Market Not a sign of my Joe (repeat both lines) Everybody coming to Linstead Market Everybody but Joe Then I got a letter to Linstead Market Explaining everything then Sorry can't meet you at Linstead Market I just got married today But I'll meet you tomorrow at Linstead Market And take you out to the show midi to alan's mid site, NWC file to DickG. |
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07 Nov 00 - 09:33 PM (#336360) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: Jon Freeman I have a version in Singing Together (BBC Schools Radio 1970):
Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Chorus
Everybody come a feel up, feel up chorus
Make me call i'louder: akee! akee! Notes given:
ackee - favourite Jamaican vegetable Jon |
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07 Nov 00 - 10:02 PM (#336377) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: MMario Thanks jon! That version was mentioned, but I didn't have the lyrics. |
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08 Nov 00 - 08:49 AM (#336643) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: Snuffy Jon's version is the only one I've ever heard. Where di the first one come from? Wassail! V |
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08 Nov 00 - 09:26 AM (#336658) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: MMario the victoria state library, I believe.... |
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08 Nov 00 - 06:43 PM (#336890) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: Snuffy and before that ...? Wassail! V |
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08 Nov 00 - 07:21 PM (#336902) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: John in Brisbane This song was first published in Sing Out and subsequently in one of the Reprints. if you need more detailed info please let me know. Just for info the Sing Out site has a complete listing of every song published in the magazine since its first publication circa 1950 plus detailed contents of all articles since 1997. For the last 10 or so issues MIDI files of the tunes have been provided at their Web site. Unfortunately I have not been able to find an archive of Sing Out in Australia. Some missing tunes from the DT are there but to date I have not been able to get my hands on them. Regards, John |
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08 Nov 00 - 07:26 PM (#336907) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: John in Brisbane A recording of this version can be found on a Folkways recording done by Louise Bennett of Jamaica folksongs. |
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08 Nov 00 - 07:27 PM (#336909) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: LINSTEAD MARKET From: Snuffy Thanks John Wassail! V |
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03 Feb 08 - 10:25 PM (#2252871) Subject: ADD: La Chomba From: GUEST,J Rob Let me surprise you as much as I was when I first heard this english version just a few days ago, because I always knew this song with spanish lyrics like this:
Vente a bailar la chomba calito, bailala 'e medio la'o chomba con chomboy esta rebueno todo el mundo jala'o chomba, que chomba, que chomba chomba calito pega'o chomba calito pegao everybody chomba calito pegao todo el mundo This is a song from Mike Laure, absolutely nice and I recommende you to hear it |
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02 Mar 10 - 09:05 PM (#2854623) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: GUEST de hecho una de las mejores versiones de "La chomba("LINSTEAD MARKET") la interpreta johnny lopez con la magistral "sonora matancera" hay muchisimas versiones pero la de 1957 con la sonora matancera es la mejor |
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21 Mar 11 - 08:18 AM (#3118160) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: GUEST,sonja yes but can anyone just give me the chords not the lyrics |
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22 Mar 11 - 10:08 AM (#3118978) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: GUEST,Tony Sonja, this is approximately what I use: C c c e e Cg F F F^, G e F e d C C c c e e Cg F F F^, G e F e d C C C Am Am Dm Dm a, Gx d e f g C C C Am Am Dm Dm a, Gx c d c b C (upper case letters are chords; lower case are single notes played without a chord; Cg means a C chord with g played on the high E string; F^ means F chord played high on the neck, like a D slid up 3 frets; Gx means a G chord played without the high E string) I learned the song from the Spinners recording. For the record: Linstead Market is a Jamaican folk song, perhaps a Mento. It's not a Calypso. This is a Calypso. |
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06 Jun 11 - 08:07 PM (#3166240) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: Linstead Market Jamaican folk, mento; also Cuba, etc. 1 Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market, Not a *quatty wud sell Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market, Not a quatty wud sell. Chorus: Oh Lawd! Not a mite not a bite, Wat a Satiday night! Lawd! Not a mite not a bite, Wat a Satiday night! 2 Ev'rybody come feel up feel up, Not a quatty wud sell. Ev'rybody come feel up feel up Not a quatty wud sell. 3 Mek me call i' louda, Ackee! Ackee! Red and pretty dem tan. Lady buy yuh Sunday mawnin' breakfus' Rice and ackee nyam gran'. Chorus. 4 All de *pickney come linga-ling Fe weh dem Muma no bring, All de pickney come linga-ling Fe weh dem Muma no bring. Chorus. *quatty, quatee- a small copper coin. *pickney- pickaninny (small child) Jim Morse, coll., Folk Songs of the Caribbean, 1958, Bantam Books NY, pp. 86-87 with musical score. The first verse was first published in Walter Jekyll, 1907, Jamaican Song and Story. Sung by Edric Connor, 1958, Songs from Jamaica, track 10. The version by Lord Flee and the Jamaican Calypsoans on youtube is good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyLCmy-YzzE In 1925, Helen H. Roberts published variations, including one setting it in Sollas Market. See Wikipedia for some further details. Jon Freeman (near top of thread) posted verses similat to those I post here, minus the last verse and without dialect. |
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14 Jun 11 - 05:46 PM (#3170668) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: MorwenEdhelwen1 Where does the "merry-go-round/American rum" verse come from? |
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19 Jun 11 - 07:47 PM (#3173119) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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14 Jul 11 - 02:09 AM (#3187206) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: MorwenEdhelwen1 What is interesting is that this song in two versions appears to be about two different things, although always set in Linstead or Solas/Sollas Market (renamed Jubilee Market after Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee) on Saturday night. One version seems to be about a woman waiting for her boyfriend so they can go out on a date. The other is about a woman who can't feed her children because no one has bought the ackees she carries in her basket. It's nearly always Saturday night, except for the 1904 version with "not a light" (so she's selling ackees in the dark? Or possibly no light of her own to carry?). |
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15 Jul 11 - 02:56 AM (#3188037) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: MorwenEdhelwen1 The narrator of this song is always a woman, as well. |
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25 Oct 11 - 07:06 PM (#3244788) Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Linstead Market (trad Calypso) From: MorwenEdhelwen1 Does anyone have a clue where the "do me mommy fi beat me, kill me..." verse came from? This thread attracts spammers these days. If you wish to reopen it ask a mod to do so. ---mudelf |