"... how does it feel when you've got no food?"
Let's get something straight. A "dutchie" was a Dutch oven. Poor Jamaicans would cook stew in this pot and then pass it around ("upon the left hand side") to their families and dinner companions. Although marketed as a novelty and definitely subtle in its politics, "Pass the Dutchie" has a lot more substance than you might expect - "Subterranean Homesick Blues," it ain't, but the last twenty-seven (!) years have been far kinder to this song than I anticipated. And just to be clear: it's not about smoking weed. [[justin]]
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