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Minawoo ! Minawoo ! 
I die ! I die ! 
Me'din adoo croom, 
Bush now my croom, 
Minawoo ! Minawoo ! 
I die ! I die ! 
Babisseache Minawoo ! Minawoo ! 
For woman's sake I die ! I die ! 
Attah m'incomie ! Attah m'incomie ! 
Attali don't kill me! Attah don't kill me! 
The man's life, it was added, was preserved when he urged that 
he understood how to make sandals. The key appears to be E 
minor. 
No. 7, in G major, seems to convey the moral, that riches prompt 
mankind to wickedness, the word " makes" is understood. 
No, 9, became a common song in March last in praise of the 
present Governor in Chief ; who, in consequence of the famine 
occasioned by the preceding invasion from the Ashantees, daily 
distributed corn to the starving multitude : the words are even 
more incoherent and figurative than the others, therefore I have 
not written them, but the meaning to be gathered is, " Poor woman 
and poor child got no gold to buy kanky ; good white man gives 
you corn." It will be observed that the air much resembles No. 11, 
wherefore I suspect it is an alteration, and not a composition; 
although the key seems to be G major, and it is impossible to 
attach any key to the latter. 
The dirge, No. 12, certainly in the key of G major, has been 
mentioned before, but here I must add, that in venturing the 
intervening and concluding bass chord, I merely attempt to de- 
scribe the castanets, gong-gongs, drums, &c. bursting in after the 
soft and mellow tones of the flutes ; as if the ear was not to retain 
a vibration of the sweeter melody. 
