Lyr. Add: ME CARRY ME ACKEE A LINSTEAD MARKET
Original folk version, coll. before 1907.

Me carry me ackee a Linstead Market,
Not a quatty worth sell.
Oh, what a losses !
Not a quatty worth sell.
Me carry me ackee a Linstead market,
Not a quatty worth sell.
Oh, not a light, not a bite !
Not a quatty worth sell.

CXXI, pp. 219-220, with musical score; a 'Dancing tune'.
The ackee is edible, but has a red capsule which is poisonous; death by "misadventure through carelessness" in its preparation is not uncommon.
A dance of the '5th figure', the step regulated by two beats in the bar of six; also danced in 3/4 time.

Walter Jekyll, 1907, Jamaican Song and Story; reprint Dover.