Chin, fallah, fallah, Chin, fallah, fallah, Chin, fallah, fallah, Chin.
When de tree goin’ to fall, William said, “Bear me up, me good tree!
Many time me fader fell green tree, leave dry one.” De witch knock out
twenty axe-men, t’irty axe-men.
“Blum-blum, Sinde, Dido,
Um um eh o,
Blum-blum, Sinde, Dido!”
Den de Ol’ Witch sing,
“Chin fallah fallah, chin fallah fallah.”
When de tree goin’ to fall, William said, “Bear me up, me good tree;
many time me fader fell green tree, leave dry one.” De Witch knock out
twenty axe-men, t’irty axe-men.
“Blum-blum, Sinde, Dido-o-o!”
Den de Ol’ Witch sing,
“Chin fallah fallah, chin fallah fallah.”
While William in de tree, white basin boil up wid blood. An’ William
got a deaf-ears mamma. An’ de nex’ neighbor come in an’ chattin’ wid
William mudder de whole day; an’ in height of basin boil over an’ run a
stream slap on de frock of de ol’ lady chattin’ in de kitchen. When de
ol’ lady see de blood hot, she cut de chain of Blum-blum an’ Sinde.
Dido cut de chain himself, an’ de t’ree dog gallop ’way. When William
up tree see de t’ree dog coming, he only shake his hand an’ de t’ree
dog drop. An’ de t’ree dog wait till de Ol’ Witch get forty axe-man
round de tree. In de height of cutting de tree, de t’ree dog destroy
ev’ry one of dem an kill de Ol’ Witch herself.
An’ William come down off de tree an’ tek his machete an’ scatter Ol’
Witch over de whole earth, an’ everywhere you go you can see dat bad
cowitch is not’ing else den de pieces of de Ol’ Witch.
Jack man dory, choose now!
b. Lucy and Janet.
Martha Roe, Harmony Hall, Cock-pit country.
Once a woman have two daughter. Lucy an’ Janet were de two girl name.
She sen’ dem far to school. Der is Ol’ Witch live along de road. An’
she had t’ree dog, one name Dick, one name Dandy, an’ one name Bellamo.
August, Lucy was going home, going spend time wid her mamma, an’ de
mudder has to sen’ dose t’ree dog to go carry her home. An’ all her
breakfas’ fe her an’ t’ree dog she put all togedder. Lucy were kind.
When Lucy catch to her breakfas’, she an’ de t’ree dog eat togedder;
she never consider dem as dog, she take dem as frien’. So when she
catch half-way, de t’ree dog stop back an’ one big Ol’ Witch man come
out to destroy Lucy. Dat time, de dog leave her quite back; now she
gwine call dem:
“Yah! Bellamo, Dick an’ Dandy,
Yah! Bellamo, yo!”
De t’ree dog run in an’ dem tear up de Ol’ Witch an’ kill him. So ev’ry
time Lucy come, dose t’ree dog guide her to her mamma go an’ spen’
August, an’ de t’ree of dem carry her back to her school-missus place.
Well, Christmas, Janet a go. De dog come to carry home Janet. When dey
come, she say, “I wonder what you all doin’ so long!” an’ begin to
quarrel. When she ketch fe to eat breakfas’, she eat her breakfas’
first den she divide what left give de t’ree dog. So as she started on,
de dog dem start back de same as usual. When de Ol’ Witch man come out,
going call de dog now. And say, (harshly)
“Yah! Bellamo, Dick an’ Dandy,
Yah! Bellamo, yah!”
Dog wouldn’t come. An’ de Ol’ Witch kill dat girl t’ru her bad manner.
So you fin’ plenty of young people don’ have manners.
“Money won’t take you ’round de island like civility.” [54]