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Thread #53820   Message #833784
Posted By: Richie
24-Nov-02 - 08:06 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hook and Line (and related songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: ROUSTABOUT
Here's a version of "Roustabout" from the bluegrass sites, I assume it's by Monroe or Flatt and Scruggs or both. Does anyone have the source?

Lyr Add: ROUSTABOUT

Refrain: Well, it's a long long way
It's a long long way
To the Gulf of Mexico

Well, I make my home on the Mississippi
I'm a roustabout on a Steamboat line
Let's hit the deck on a Monday morning
Let's make the lock on a Saturday night

Well, I have me a gal way down in Vicksburg
And she used to stop every time I passed
Then she made off with a little rich man
With a new silk suit and a little mustache

* Refrain

Does anyone have info or lyrics to the hollers, "Levee Camp Holler"
"Steel Laying Holler," or "Roustabout Holler" which may be related?

These lyrics are quite different than the Roustabout posted above from A Fiddler's Companion. All my source indicate Roustabout is closely related to "Shout Lula."

-Richie