Sammy plant peas & corn down a gully

Sammy Dead
Song by
Desmond Dekker, The Specials

Sammy plant piece a corn dung a gully mm mm.
An i' bear till i' kill poor Sammy mm mm.
Sammy dead, Sammy dead, Sammy dead oh, mm mm
Sammy dead, Sammy dead, Sammy dead oh, mm mm.
A no tief Sammy teif mek dem kill him, mm mm.
A no lie Sammy lie mek him dead oh, mm mm.
But a grudgeful dem grudgeful kill Sammy, mm mm
But a grudgeful dem grudgeful kill Sammy, mm mm.
Neighbour kyaan bear fe see neighbour flourish, mm
Neighbour kyaan bear fe see neighbour flourish, mm
Sammy dead, Sammy dead, Sammy dead oh, mm mm
Sammy dead, Sammy dead, Sammy dead oh, mm mm.
Sammy gone dung a hell fe shoot blackbud, mm mm.
A no lie Sammy lie mek him go deh, mm mm.
But a grudgeful dem grudgeful kill Sammy, mm mm
But a grudgeful dem grudgeful kill Sammy, mm mm.
Songwriters: Byron Lee, Eric Lloyd Morris. For non-commercial use only.

It is PIECE A CAWN (corn), NOT peas and corn (or variants of it). That is how Jamaican farmers describe a farm plot. Check out the name of any place with “piece” in the name; it is always an agricultural or other plant object – Cassava Piece, cane piece, grass piece. Just recently my mother-in-law, with whom I had this very argument, was passing a plot and commented “what a niece piece a dasheen” – which I used to prove my point. A piece can simply refer to a plot (usually a “good looking” one) or a large plot (like acres of it).