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Jamaican song and story

ANNANCY STORIES, DIGGING SINGS, RING TUNES, AND DANCING TUNES

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COLLECTED AND EDITED BY WALTER JEKYLL: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALICE WERNER, AND APPENDICES ON TRACES OF AFRICAN MELODY IN JAMAICA BY C.S. MYERS, AND ON ENGLISH AIRS AND MOTIFS IN JAMAICA BY LUCY E. BROADWOOD.

“A few brief years have passed away Since Britain drove her million slaves Beneath the tropic’s fiery ray: God willed their freedom; and to-day Life blooms above those island graves!” Whittier

Published for the Folk-Lore Society by DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE LONDON 1907

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