"Palmer" affords an opportunity for individual display:--
Palmer, you just from town, Palmer, oh William Palmer! Palmer, you just from town, Palmer, oh William Palmer! Show me the figure whé you bring, Palmer, oh William Palmer! Dat dé no style at ahl, Palmer, oh William Palmer! Palmer, you just from town, Palmer, oh William Palmer! Put on de style now more, Palmer, oh William Palmer!]
Palmer has just come back to his mountain home from Kingston, and is urged to show the latest step for a quadrille figure or other dance. His companions affect surprise. What! is that all? Oh, Palmer, that's not style!
Mother Freeman, a whé me Gungo dé? Not a one can sow me Gungo; Fe me Gungo, da precious Gungo, Not a one can sow me Gungo; All the gal them a go dead 'way 'pon me, Not a one can sow me Gungo. All the boy a go dead 'way 'pon me, Not a one can sow me Gungo.]
Mother Freeman, where is my Gungo (a kind of pea)?
No one will sow my Gungo, or perhaps rather:--Will no one sow my Gungo? For my Gungo is precious Gungo.
As they sing and dance, the boys pretend to faint, and fall into the arms of the girls. When the words change, the girls fall into the arms of the boys, who catch them. "Dead 'way 'pon me," besides meaning to faint, has a slang interpretation equivalent to: "All the girls are death upon me."
The following is perhaps a sly allusion to some dull-witted boy:--
Me have me goosey a me yard, Me no call Barny clever. Go bring me goosey a me yard, Me no call Barny clever. Wheel me goosey make me see oh! Me no call Barny clever.]
Thick sour milk allowed to stand and curdle is called "barnyclebber" [Irish word, F.Y.P.].
Here we have a reference to the too common practice of stealing, which is treated more as a joke than a crime:--
Drill him, Constab, drill him; Drill him, Constab, drill him; She tief her mother shilling fe go buy Sapadilla. Buy Sapadilla, buy Sapadilla; You go an' tief the shilling fe go buy Sapadilla. Wheel him, Constab, wheel him; Wheel him, Constab, wheel him; Him tief him mother shilling fe go buy Sapadilla.]
A girl is the delinquent and the "Constab" (constable, pronounce _con_ as in _constant_) is inside the ring with her, lightly beating her with a twig or pocket-handkerchief. When one has been marched round and wheeled, he "sends her out" and takes another.