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Thread #48959   Message #4088267
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
16-Jan-21 - 08:05 AM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
J.S. Scott (Carpenter Collection) seems to have perhaps sung "Darling fellow." I really like "darling" (or something else) as a possibility of an earlier/original word from which "rolling" could have morphed.

This is in line with my own belief that the song is on the template of something from the American South (in posts above from 2011). The "original," I conjecture, was about being born in Alabamy or South Virginny, etc. Country/minstrel music was all about the rhyme of "born" with "corn"! And this tune is as "down home" as they get.

Though, like Lighter says, at some point, it didn't really matter anymore.

I don't care that much, as as long as people put the exertion of "-way" (of "away") and not on "heave"!