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Jamaican Song and Story

by Walter Jekyll

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Oh ’liza oh!
Oh ’liza oh!
Oh ’liza oh!
Oh ’liza oh!
’liza ‘pread you coat make I lie down dé
under the Bushatahl.

“Coat” is petticoat. I am told that ’liza could take off a petticoat and still be quite properly dressed.

“Make I lie down,” etc., i.e., let me lie down under the Butcher’s Stall. This is the name of a precipice just below my house. Horses have several times fallen over it and been killed. They then become butcher’s meat for the John Crows, the vulture-like birds which are so useful as scavengers.

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