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Colonisation in Reverse

Wat a joyful news, Miss Mattie,

1 feel like me heart gwine burs

Jamaica people colonizing

Englan in reverse.

By de hundred, by de tousan

From country and from town,

By de ship-load, by de plane-load

Jamaica is Englan boun.

Dem a-pour out o Jamaica,

Everybody future plan

Is fe get a big-time job

An settle in de mother Ian.

What a islan! What a people!

Man an woman, old an young

Jusa pack dem bag an baggage

An tun history upside dung!

Some people don like travel,

But fe show dem loyalty

Dem all a-open up cheap-fare

To-Englan agency.

An week by week dem shippin off

Dem countryman like fire,

Fe immigrate an populate

De seat o de Empire.

Oonoo see how life is funny,

Oonoo see de tunabout,

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