Jamaica Traditional Folks Songs
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Jamaican folk songs represent the Jamaican people's lives. The four songs below are traditional folk songs, depicting the lives of ordinary people their success -Sammy's bountiful crop of corn: their folk medicine-Elena using the medicinal plant cerese to cure tummy ache: their joy and love - dancing under the banyan tree
Happy Jamaica Day Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High School Feb 27, 2015 This is celebrated every year to constantly remind students of their "Jamaicanness".
Happy Jamaica Day Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High School Feb 27, 2015 This is celebrated every year to constantly remind students of their "Jamaicanness".
Sammy dead
Sammy plants peas and corn down a gully
And it bears till it kills poor Sammy,
Sammy dead, Sammy dead, Sammy dead oh
Sammy dead, Sammy dead . Sammy dead oh
A who say, Sammy, dead A who say, Sammy
a lie dem did a tell
him no dead oh.
Elena
Elena an har moma go a groung,
Elena start bawl fi har belly
Go home Eena Go Home Elena
Go boil cerase fi you belly
Di moma she dig an she plant
Bu her ming just a run pon Elena
She teck up her fork ,har basket and her hoe
And go home fi go lok fi Elena
When di moma she ketcj a di yard
She se the bun pan a fire
She teck piece stick and she stir and she stir
And night shade a come by the bungle
Gal a wha dis you boil fi you belly
Gal a poison you boil fi you belly
From you born come a worl you no know cerese
Gal you foolish you foolish you foolish.
Di Moma she get some cerese
and boil it a give to Elena
Elena go bed and she sleeps and she sleep
And wake up without pain a belly
Jamaica Traditional Folks Songs
Moon Shine Tonight
Moonshine to night come meck with dance and sing
Me de rack so you deh under the banyan tree
Me de rack so you deh under the banyan tree
Ladies may curtsy gentlemen may sing
Ladies may curtsy gentlemen may sing
Me de rack so you deh under the banyan tree
Me de rack so you deh under the banyan tree
Fi Mi Love
Fi mi love have a lion heartFi mi love have a lion heart
Strong and ever last
only fi me
Fi mi love have a lion heart
Fi mi love have a lion heart
Stong and everlasting only fi mi
repeat
Carry mi Acke
Carry mi ackee go a instead market
not a quaty wot sell
Carry mi ackee go a instead market
not a quaty wot sell.
laud what a night not a bite not a quaty wot sell
Every bady come feel up feel up n n
not a quaty wot sell
Every bady come feel up feel up n n
not a quaty wot sell
aud what a night not a bite not a quaty wot sell
repeat
Jamaica Traditional Folks Songs
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