{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas141n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas141n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas141n.htm","text":"Medleys of this character seem to have been a popular form of entertainment and may still be common, though the examples I have were given me in every case by old men. They are composed of scraps of song or whole scenes from well-known Nansi stories, together with game-songs, imitations of animal sounds, and \"rhyming,\" strung together much like our own musical medleys--the last line of one suggesting the first of the next. In this example, story-songs from numbers 97 and 86 are followed by a game dialogue; next by some animal imitations; last, by a specimen of Jamaica \"rhyming.\" Other examples of this kind of improvised \"rhyming\" are:\n\"Mr. Might, jump up a height, after a kite,\n And knock his eye, upon his hog-sty, and cry out 'hi!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oh, my! why should I die'.\"\n\"There is a boat, and in the boat, is a goat, and has\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a long coat, catch him under the throat.\"","title":"Note 141. Tacoomah makes a Dance.","type":"page"}