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Jamaican Song and Story

by Walter Jekyll

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CXXXII Valse

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Marty, Marty, me wanty go home,
Marty, Marty, me wanty go home,
Marty, Marty, me wanty go home,
Me wanty go home back a yard.
Tell me mumma say me wanty come home,
Me wanty come home, Me wanty come home,
Tell me mumma say me wanty come home,
Me wanty come home back a yard.

Martin has been flogging his wife—not an unusual condition of things—and she wants to go home to her mother. He will take her message quite loyally. The matter will be arranged and they will be good friends living apart. Before long she will go back to him of her own accord. They make up their quarrels as quickly as they fall into them.

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