Jamaican song and story Papyras Classics

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Chapter 65

Notes

ground, a provision ground where yams, etc., are grown. They often pronounce it grun, rhyming to run but even shorter.

a leave, I leave.

This tune has a bobbin, see Digging sings. Nonsense words of course.

commando, pronounced common doe.

yah, with French a.

pass, path. It no doubt should be gone down short pass. The paths circle round the steep mountain sides and short cuts connect the loops.

buck, stumbles on, meet.

you light, etc. Your lights for my dinner, your liver for my dog.