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"Linstead Market"

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The mento and folk standard that begins "carry me ackee go a Linstead Market". It is a market song about not selling — the singer's ackee goes untouched and the money does not come — and its plain account of hard trade is part of why it has stayed in the repertoire, recorded by everyone from folk collectors to Harry Belafonte.

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Walter Jekyll, Jamaican Song and Story (1907), the earliest known publication of the tune with words; Helen H. Roberts, field collection published 1925, reproducing Jekyll and adding twelve variants; Louise Bennett's 1951 recording with the Caribbean Serenaders for Melodisc; Wikipedia, "Linstead Market".

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Linstead Market - Louise Bennett (Jamaican Folk Songs, Smithsonian Folkways)

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