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Colonisation in Reverse
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Caribbean Quarterly
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March 1, 2008
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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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