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from THE TOWN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

By
E. K. Martey
Edited by
Victoria Ellen Smith
E. K. Martey
Affiliation:
Medical Research Institute
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Summary

Had she loved me

As she told me

When she scolded me

For being naughty

She wouldn't have died.

How now lonely

Do I only

Take a cold tea

This cold frost morn.

Why should she die,

Why should she die?

No more naughtiness

Mum, no more stealing.

No more delinquencies

Mum, no more pinching.

Come back to me.

Why should you die,

Why should you die?

Jack got a mango sweet

Joe's balloon O, how neat.

None for me, not a bit.

Come back to me, mum.

Where have you gone, mum,

What does it mean to die?

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Voices of Ghana
Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955–57
 , pp. 209
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2018

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