Come we go to church, Pret-ty Poll.
Come we go to church, Pret-ty Poll.
Pret-ty Poll, wan' get mar-ried
Same time as a so so fed-der.
John Crow say he be de bride, same time he, peel-head young man.
Mary Jane Roden, Brownstown, St. Ann.
Fowl invite Pretty Poll to chapel, den Pretty Poll said to Fowl, "Kyan't go to chapel for me soso fedder." Poll said to Kyan-crow, "Make go to chapel." Kyan-crow said to Pretty Poll him kyan't to go chapel for him peel-head young man.
Come we go to church, Pret-ty Poll.
Come we go to church, Pret-ty Poll.
Pret-ty Poll, wan' get mar-ried
Same time as a so so fed-der.
John Crow say he be de bride, same time he, peel-head young man.
[1. Jamaica negroes speak of the groom at a wedding as "the bride."]