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Thread #169238 Message #4094992
Posted By: Shogun
26-Feb-21 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Discovering world legacy of shanties by 'Shogun'
Subject: RE: Discovering world legacy of shanties by 'Shogun'
67 - Sacramento (D)
This song was sung as a capstan anchor shanty, especially when raising the "mud-hook".
This is the "Camptown Races" version.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 110, 111).
Sacramento D
Camptown ladies sing this song,
- Hoo-dah! Hoo-dah!
Camptown race-track's five miles long.
- Hoo-dah! Hoo-dah day!
- Blow, boys, blow!
- For Californ-eye-O!
- There's plenty o' gold so I've bin told,
- On the banks o' the Sacramento
*2*
Go down dar wid me hat caved in,
Come back home with me pockets full o' tin.
*3*
De long-tailed filly an' de big black hoss,
Dey fly de track an' dey both cut ac ross.
*4*
De blind hoss stickin' in a big mud hole,
Can't touch bottom wid a ten-foot pole.
*5*
Ol' muley cow come out on de track,
De bob he fling her ober his back.
*6*
Den fly along like a raiload car,
Runnin' a race wid a shootin' star.
*7*
De sorrel hoss he's got a cough,
An' his rider's drunk in de ol' hay-loft.
*8*
Dere's fourteen hosses in dis race,
Ah'm snug in de saddle an' got a good brace.
*9*
De bobtail hoss she cain't be beat,
Runnin' around in a two-mile heat.
*10*
Ah put me money on de bob-tail nag,
Somebody bet on de one-eyed lag.
*11*
I win me money on de bobtail nag,
An' carry it home in de ol' tow-bag.