Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quatty would sell.
Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market
Not a quatty would sell.

Chorus:
Oh, Lord! Not a mite, not a bite,
What a Saturday night!
Lord! Not a mite' not a bite,
What a Saturday night!

Everybody come a feel up, feel up,
Not a quatty would sell.
Everybody come a feel up, feel up,
Not a quatty would sell.

Make me call i'louder: ackee! ackee!
Red and pretty dem tan.
Lady, buy your Sunday morning breakfast:
Rice and ackee nyam grad',

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Source: Singing Together, Summer 1978, BBC Publications

Notes:
Jamaican. From "Folk Songs of Jamaica" edited and arranged by Tom Murray - O.U.P.

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