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Thread #48959 Message #3695026
Posted By: Lighter
18-Mar-15 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Give it up, guys.
If "rolling king" had any established meaning, there'd be real evidence for it - examples of usage in the billions and billions of words available in books and newspapers online.
But there's nothing.
If anyone has found such an example outside of this shanty - and preferable before the 1950s - please, please post.
Versions from old sailors and in early collections have "my bully, bully boys," not "you rolling kings."