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Jamaican Song and Story

by Walter Jekyll

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LXXIII — [Xml]

Cheer me oh!
Cheer me oh!
Cheer me oh!
My will fight fe you.

LXXIV

In imitating animals the negro is clever. He moos like a cow, grunts like a pig, whinnies like a horse, besides the minor accomplishments of miauling and barking. Even trammelled by music this cock’s crow is good:—

[XML]

Me cock a crow coocoorico,
before day him a crow coocoorico,
him a crow fe me wake coocoorico.

(Sound the i short as in rich.)

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