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Linstead, St Catherine

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Market town in St Catherine fixed in the national songbook by "Linstead Market", the mento standard of the higgler who "nat a quattie wut sell" — one of the most recorded Jamaican folk melodies and a Festival staple. The song keeps a whole economy of market walking and country selling audible.

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Dictionary of Jamaican English; Smithsonian Folkways; Jamaican folk-song collections.

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