Jamaican song and story Papyras Classics

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Chapter 116

LXVI

See how superior this truly Jamaican form is:—

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Oh! me yerry news, me yerry,
Oh! me yerry news, me yerry,
Married homan a pull him ring me yerry
Him put ahm a wine-glass me yerry
Oh! me yerry news me yerry.

Local scandal again. "I hear news; a married woman has pulled off her wedding ring and put it in a wine-glass," the first convenient receptacle she saw.