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Lammy Palmer & Emmanuel Palmer

All of us is Maroon^* who scattered from [the] English. Dem deh man [the “first-time” Maroons who fought against the British in the eighteenth century] a mad Jehovah God himself!^†—Jehovah God who rule those man, Jehovah God who lead those man, who teach those man. [Singing]:

Guinea bird-oh, seh you gone home-eh

Sa Leone Guinea bird-oh, poor me Guinea bird-oh

Guinea man-oh, poor me Guinea bird-oh

Woy-oh, seh me a fallaline-oh [wanderer, stranger]

Guinea bird-oh, me come from Guinea Coast-oh

Guinea bird-oh, me come from Guinea Coast-oh

• Drums, vocals

• (Lammy: c. 1940–2012)

• (Emmanuel: c. 1938–2012)

• Active from the 1950s

• Maroon Kromanti master drummers

^*Maroons: enslaved Africans who escaped and formed their own free communities in the interior of the island. Their present-day descendants maintain four semiautonomous communities in the hills of Jamaica. Kromanti is the name of the African-based spiritual and musical tradition in the three eastern Maroon communities of Moore Town, Scot’s Hall, and Charles Town.

^†Meaning, those original Maroons were so spiritually powerful that they used to drive God himself crazy.

Moore Town, Portland, Jamaica, 2008