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Linstead Market
"Linstead Market" is a Jamaican folk song of the mento type. It tells of a mother who takes her ackee fruit to the market but sells none of it, so that her children will go hungry. Possibly its earliest printing with words is in Walter Jekyll's book Jamaican Song and Story (1907), where it is item 121, on pages 219–220; Jekyll wrote its melody in 6/8 time, while every later printing named here is in 2/4 or 4/4.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Linstead Market. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/linstead-market
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