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Jamaican song and story

Part 4 — CLXXXVI.

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4th Figure.

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Me no min dé a concert the night When Martha an' Pompey catch a fight. Da Martha da Pompey, Da Martha da Pompey catch a fight.

"Me no min dé," literally, "I not been there," I was not there. Nobody hearing these words for the first time would ever suspect that they were English. People are always said to "catch fight" when they come to blows.

Few of the old classical slave names like Pompey now survive.

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