Ballad Of Annie Palmer
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One time I was down to Jamaica to a place called Rose Hall Plantation
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They grow a lot of sugarcane and tomatoes and things at Rose Hall now
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It used to be just a sugarcane plantation back in the days of slavery
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And they tell stories about the place and about the great house at Rose Hall
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That many many years ago they came from the country of Haiti
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A lady named Annie Palmer who lived in that great house there
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And she was a mistress of the plantation she was the boss her word was law
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Well they tell a lot of tales about Annie
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They say she had three husbands one at a time I guess
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But they also tell tales about Annie and the slaves
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There were about 5000 slaves on the plantation
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And she had her favorites and she had the ones that weren't her favorites
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Well down on the sea there're three tall palm trees wavin' in the breeze
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And they say that maybe Annie Palmer's three husbands are buried under those palm trees
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On the iAsland oDf JamAaica quit a lDong long time agAo
At RAose HDall plantAation where the oB7cean breezes bElow
Lived a gAirl named ADnnie PAalmer the mDistress of the pAlace
And the slAaves all lEived in fAear to sDee a fArown on AEnnie's fAace
WDhere's your husband AAnnie where's nDumber two and tAhree
Are they slDeeping beneath the pAalms beside tB7he Caribbean sEea
At nDight I hear you riAding and I hDear your lovers cAall
And I stAill can fEeel your pAresence arDound the gAreat house at REose HAall
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Well if yAou should eDver gAo to see the gDreat house at Rose HAall
There's expAensive cDhairs and cAhina and great pB7aintings on the wEall
They'll sAhow you aDny sAitting room and the wDhipping post outsAide
But tAhey won't lEet you sAee the rDoom where AAnnie's hEusbands dAied
WDhere's your husband AAnnie where's nDumber two and tAhree
Are they slDeeping beneath the pAalms beside tB7he Caribbean sEea
At nDight I hear you riAding and I hDear your lovers cAall
And I stAill can fEeel your pAresence arDound the gAreat house at REose HAall