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So you’d have fretters to circulate! And the next day you look forward to him again to sing more songs. And this woman who was the vendor was the mother of another singer who we call ‘Monty’ Morris, Eric ‘Monty’ Morris. Yeah, from way back, he used to do songs like (sings) ‘A lickle more oil in my lamp, keep it burnin’…’ and (sings) ‘Sammy plant piece of corn…’ (chuckles). Some lickle nursery rhyme. And I shared the same classroom with another singer called Dawn Penn.
‘No No No’.
‘No No..’, yeah, she was at school at the time, and all of this happened at Central Branch Primary, Kingston, in the younger days. So as an adult now an’ Dennis Brown up on stage, it was fun to really (chuckles) capture him on video. I say ‘here you go again’, yunno. And when him walkin’ up to the camera an’ him look an’ see that it’s me, it’s jus’ pure teet’, y’know (laughs).
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KING TUBBY by Dave Hendley. 1st published June 2003 in the French magazine 'Natty Dread'
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