Jamaican Song and Story Part 32

[Music:

Chicken-hahk oh! Chicken-hahk oh! give me me frock.

Chicken-hahk oh! Chicken-hahk oh! Chicken-hahk.]

An' the big sister run come an see the golden teet' an' was so glad.

They go home an' tell their mother that we have gain the battle an'

have seen the gold teet'.

From that day we see gold teet' until now.

NOTES.

=mechanic=, antics.

=so much=, a sum of money.

x.x.xI. PRETTY POLL.

Once a Duke have a sarvant. So this sarvant was courting to a young man for a long time.

So one day another friend come to see the Duke. So he love the Duke sarvant an' the Duke sarvant love him. So this man ask the Duke for her.

The Duke say:--"No, she is courting already."

So the friend was sorry.

The gal tell the young man say:--"Me love you, an' if you going to marry me I will lef' my lover an' come."

The young man say:--"How you will manage that the Duke not going to allow it?"

The gal say:--"You look out."

So one evening, when the gal lover come home, she ask him to let them go for a walk far away. "I am going to show you a very pretty place."

During this time the gal know where a well was, so she is going to shub him into the well.

As they reach to the place they see a pretty flowers in the well.

So they was looking at the flowers.

As she see that her lover was gazing at the flowers she just shub him right in the well an' said:--"T'ank G.o.d! me going to get that pretty young man."

During this time there was a Parrot on a tree seeing all that was going on, cry out:--

[Music:

Ha ha! Ha ha!

I have a news to take to the Duke at home; you have your dearest lover an' cast him down to the well.]

The gal look up an' see the Parrot.

She get frighten, call to Poll:--

[Music:

Come, Pretty Poll, come!

There is a house of gold an' silver before you sit 'pon tree.]

Poll sing:--

[Music:

Tree I barn, Tree I must be stay till my time come to die.]

An' Poll commence to fly from tree to tree an' she was following him till they get out to a village. Poll was still singing an' she was begging.

Poll fly from house to house till he get on the Duke house an' sing.

The gal was crying.

The Duke hear, send out man an' they listen until them hear what Poll said, an' them catch the gal an' chop off her head.

An' Poll get good care.

_Jack Mantora me no choose any._

NOTES.

This is another version of the "King Daniel" story.

=before you sit=, instead of your sitting.

=Tree I barn=, etc. On a tree I was born, on a tree I must stay.

x.x.xII. ANNANCY AND HOG.

One day Annancy an' him grandmamma go to a ground.