Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 04:40 PM

for Five-Gallon JAr - see also the Big Stone Jar in DT - tune is not quite the same - but close.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE BIG FIVE-GALLON JAR
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 04:33 PM

THE BIG FIVE-GALLON JAR
(from Henry E. Burke)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - p111)

In Liv-er-pool there liv'd a man Jack Jennings was his name
And in the days of square-rigged sail he played the shang-hai game
His wife's name was Car-o-line, sail-ors knew from near and far;
And when she played the shang-hai game she used his big sone jar.

In the old Vir-gin-ia low-lands,low-lands,low,
In the old Vir-gin-ia low-lands low!@

There were drunkards in the corner and bummers at the bar
And Caroline was supplying them with a big five-gallon jar
...
...

Said old Jack to old Caroline, I'll tell you what we'll do,
There's a ship lying down to McKinnon's Wharf; I think she wants a crew.
We'll go down around the corners to get some drunken tars
We'll shanghai them away out of Liverpool Bay with a big five gallon jar.

So JAck and Cal they worked their game when the ships signed on their tars,
Skys'l Jack and Pete and Bowline Bill helped to judge old Cal's five gallon jar.
Now we'll bid adieu to Cal and Jack and set our sails for ports afar
Dear Shanghai Cal, we'll all come back, and sample Jack's five-gallon jar.

Burke's title for this was "Cal and Jack - the Shanghai-ers"

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SAILOR'S WAY
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 04:20 PM

see also Across The Line (dt file sailfate)

THE SAILOR'S WAY
(from the singing of Frank VIckery - tune=Off to Sea Once More)
(Doerflinger -'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman - p109)

I've sailed among the Yankees, The Spainards and Chinees.
I've laind down with the yellow girls beneath the tall palm trees.
I've crossed the Line and Gulf Stream, and around by Table Bay,
And around Cape Horn and home again, oh, that's the sailor's way!

Oh, bobby'll go to his darling, and Johnny'll go to his dear,
And Mike will go to his wife and fam'ly, and Andrew for pipes and beer;
But I'll got to the dance hall to hear the music play,
For around Cape Horn and home again, oh, that is the sailor's way!

Subject: Lyr Add: JA, JA, JA
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 03:59 PM

JA, JA, JA
(from the singing of Patrick Tayluer - pump shanty)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' p86)

O mitsch mein ink-um stink-um buck-er-room and mein ja, ja, ja
Mitsch mein ink-um stink-um buck-er-room and mein ja, ja, ja
Vell, ve'll git up on der shteep-les
and ve'll spit down on der peo-ples,
Mitsch mein ja, ja, ja!

Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAMPANERO
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 03:39 PM

THE CAMPANERO
(from the singing of Patrick Tayluer)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - pp84-85)

Intro:

Oh, when-ev-er I went a-way, The stor-y I'd like to tell,
A-bout an 'an-dy lit-tle bark, the Camp-an-er-o.

Chorus:
Oh, it's be-tween the cook and the pump,
Well they drive me off me chump
On the 'and-y lit-tle bark, the Camp-an-er-o!
If I ev-er go to sea, Well, it won't be up to me
To go in that hand-y lit-tle bark, the Camp-an-er-o!

Verse:

Oh, the skip-per he is a bull-doz-er,
And you nev-er did hear
The words that come from a man's mouth so often
The mate he wants to fight, and then dur-in' eve-ry night,
the boys a-round the hatch they all sur-round him.

well, I'd have you all to know that wherever you do go,
If you see the name a-running fore-and-aft her,
Don't jine her anywhere, or you'll never forget the day
That you jined that 'andy little bark, the Campenaro!

You may ring around the world, and go just where you please,
She's a livin' at a single time for days and months.
But if you'll take a sailor's advice, you'll get married once or twice
Before you jine that 'andy little bark, the Campenaro!

Chorus:

Subject: Tune Add: SUSIANA
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 03:05 PM

N-Susiana
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L-We'll heave him up from down be-low, Hoo-ray, oh, Su-si-a-na! We'll
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L-heave him up and a-way we'll go, A-way right o-ver the moun-tain!

Subject: Lyr Add: SUSIANA
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 02:53 PM

SUSIANA
(from the singing of Eliezer Zinck - Nova Scotia)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - p83)

We'll heave him up from down be-low
[hoo-ray, oh, Su-si-a-na!]
We'll heave him up and a-way we'll go,
[A-way right o-ver the moun-tain!]


Note: pump or hauling shanty

Subject: Lyr Add: STORMALONG
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 02:36 PM

DT tunefile - STRMALNG

STORMALONG
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman pp82-83)

Old Storm-a-long was a gay old man,
[To me, way, old Storm-a-long!
Old Storm-a-long was a grand old man
[Aye, aye,aye,Cap-tain Storm-a-long]

But now he's dead, poor old Stor-my's gone
We bur-ied old Storm-y off Cape Horn

Poor old Stormy we'll ne'er see again.
We buried Poor Stormy off Cape Horn

We rolled him up in a silvery shroud
We lowered him down with a golden chain.

Although he's gone, he's left us a son.
How I wis I was old Stormy's son!

I'd build a ship of a thousand ton
I'd load her down with New England Rum

I'd sail this wide world round and round
And every day my crew would get their rum!

I'd pour out two drinks for the shantyman (twice)

I'd pour out drinks for every man
And a double cup for the shantyman!

Subject: Lyr Add: JOHN BROWN'S BODY (HIP HIP HIP HURRAH)
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 02:00 PM

JOHN BROWN'S BODY (HIP HIP HIP HURRAH)
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' pp72-73)

John Brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave
John Brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave
[Then it's hip, hip, hip, hur-rah!
Glo-ry Glo-ry Hal-le-lu-jah
Glo-ry Glo-ry Hal-le-lu-jah
Glo-ry Glo-ry Hal-le-lu-jah
Then it's hip, hip, hip, hur-rah!]

There's my girl with the blue dress on,

John Brown's wife drinks whiskey in her tea!

Subject: Tune Add: PADDY, GET BACK
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 01:09 PM

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L-Lon-don; I went down the Shad-well Docks to get a
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L-ship. Pad-dy get back, take in the
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L-slack! Heave a-way your cap-stan heave a
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L-hand-y, Rise tacks 'n sheets, 'n main-s'ls
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L-haul!

The fourth measure has a major variation for the second stanza - not given here.

Subject: Lyr Add: PADDY, GET BACK (from Richard Maitland)
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 12:42 PM

PADDY, GET BACK
(From the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - pp. 54-55)

I was broke and out of a job in the city of London.
I went down the Shadwell Docks to get a ship.

Paddy get back. Take in the slack!
Heave away your capstan, heave a pawl, heave a pawl!
'Bout ship and stations, there, be handy,
Rise tacks 'n' sheets, 'n' mains'l haul!

There was a Yankee ship a-laying in the basin.
Shipping master told me she was going to New York.

If I ever get my hands on that shipping master,
I will murder him if it's the last thing that I do!

When the pilot left the ship, the captain told us
We were bound around Cape Horn to Callao!

And he said that she was hot and still a-heating,
And the best thing we could do was watch our step.

Now the mate and second mate belonged to Boston,
And the captain b'longed in Bangor down in Maine.

The three of them were rough-'n'-tumble fighters.
When not fighting amongst themselves, they fought with us.

Oh, they called us out one night to reef the tops'ls.
There was belayin' pins a-flyin' around the deck.

We came on deck and went to set the tops'ls.
Not a man among the bunch could sing a song.

Oh, the mate he grabbed ahold of me by the collar.
"If you don't sing a song, I'll break your blasted neck!"

I got up and gave them a verse of "Reuben Ranzo."
Oh, the answer that I got would make you sick!

It was three long months before we got to Callao,
And the ship she was called a floating hell.

We filled up there at Callao with saltpetre,
And then back again around Cape Horn!

(Alternate last verse)
We filled up with saltpetre to the hatches
And then bound around Cape Horn to Liverpool.

Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHLAND LADDIE
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 12:20 PM

HIGHLAND LADDIE
(from the singing of James P. Barker)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' -p50)

Ay, Ay, and a-way she goes,
[Bon-nie lad-die, Hie-land lad-die,
Ay, ay, and a-way she goes,
Bon-nie Hie-land lad-die!]

'Way she goes, heels and toes,

This is the day we sail this way,


Note: sung as a chorus throughout - walkaway shanty

Subject: Tune Add: RISE ME UP FROM DOWN BELOW
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 12:01 PM

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L-Oh, I come from the world be-low. That is where the
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L-cocks do crow. Whis-key oh, John-ny oh! Oh, rise me up from down be-low,
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L-down be-low, oh, oh, oh, oh Up a-loft this yard must go, John!
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L-rise me up from down be-low!

Subject: Lyr Add: RISE ME UP FROM DOWN BELOW
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 11:41 AM

RISE ME UP FROM DOWN BELOW
(James P. Barker in the style of "Lemon" Curtis)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - p47)

Oh, I come from the world be-low. That is where the cocks do crow.
[Whis-key oh, John-ny oh!
Oh, rise me up from down be-low,
down be-low, oh, oh, oh, oh
Up a-loft this yard must go, John!
rise me up from down be-low!]

I come from the world below!
That is where the fires do roar

Subject: Tune Add: HELLO, SOMEBODY
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 09:44 AM

N-Hello Somebody
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L-Hel-lo, some-bod-y, hel-lo! There's some-bod-y knock-ing at the gar-den gate
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L-Hel-lo some-bod-y, hel-lo! There's some-bod-y knock-ing at the gar-den gate
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L-Hel-lo some-bod-y Hel-lo! Some-bod-y wants to know mah name;
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L-Hel-lo, some-bod-y hel-lo. Some-bod-y wants to know mah name;
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L-Hel-lo some-bod-y, hel-lo!

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 09:07 AM

*phew* having problems posting...

Notes:
* - intro phrase for first verse only
** - note for "there's" silent in later verses, also sever 8th note pairs have single words in later verses.

Subject: Lyr Add: HELLO,SOMEBODY
From: MMario
Date: 20 Dec 02 - 09:05 AM

HELLO,SOMEBODY
(From the singing of James P. Barker - in the style of "Lemon" Curtis)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - p46)

[Hel-lo, some-bod-y, hel-lo!]*
There's** Some-bod-y knock-ing at the gar-den gate;
[Hel-lo Some-bod-y, hel-lo!]
There's some-bod-y knocking at the gar-den gate;
[Hel-lo Some-bod-y, hel-lo]


Somebody wants to know my name

It's Nigger Dick from New Brunswick

Subject: Tune Add: GIMME DE BANJO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 04:34 PM

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L-Oh, dis is de day we pick on de ban-jo, Dance, gal, gim-me de ban-jo! Oh, dat ban-jo dat tal-la-tal-la-wan-go,
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L-Dance, gal, gim-me de ban-jo! Oh, dat ban-jo dat se-ben-string ban-jo, Dance, gal, gim-me de ban-jo!

Subject: Lyr Add: GIMME DE BANJO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 03:25 PM

GIMME DE BANJO
(From the singing of William Laurie)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman - p 45)

Oh, dis is de day we pick on de ban-jo
[Dance, gal, gom-me de ban-jo!]

oh, dat ban-jo, dat tal-la-tal-la-wan-go

oh dat ban-jo, dat se-ben-string ban-jo

I was only one an' twenty

Ah was sent to shcool fer to be a scholar!

Nah cikkar was stuff, an Ah could not swaller.

Oh, dere's mah book, down on de table

An' you kin read it if you're able

NOTE:Three variants are given for the verse

Subject: Tune Add: SHALLO BROWN
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 01:45 PM

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L-Shal-lo Brown, now what's the mat-ter? Shal-lo, Shal-lo Brown! Oh Shal-lo
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L-Brown, what's the mat-ter? Shal-lo, shal-lo Brown! 2)I'm going to leave you,
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L-Shal-lo Brown, Oh I have left the wife and ba-by Shal-lo, Shal-lo
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L-Brown

Subject: Lyr Add: SHALLO BROWN
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 01:15 PM

see also:
Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown 2
Origins:Shallow Brown
Shalo Brown

SHALLO BROWN
(From the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' p44

Shal-lo Brown, now what's the mat-ter?
[Shal-lo, shal-lo Brown!]
Oh, shal-lo Brown, what's the mat-ter?
[Shal-lo, shal-lo Brown!]

I'm going to leave you
[Shal-lo Brown]
Oh, I have left the wife and ba-by
[Shal-lo, Shal-lo Brown!]

The baby's in the cradle,
[shal-lo, shal-lo brown]
...
...

additonal verses

The packet sails tomorrow,
I'm leaving you in sorrow

And the baby in the cradle
My love I won't decieve you

Two major variants of the verse - set to verse one and two

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:47 PM

yes - Doerflinger notes that "galley old yacht" is more properly Galliot

Subject: Tune Add: A LONG TIME AGO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:46 PM

N-A Long Time Ago (6)
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L-The up a-loft this yard must go, To me way, ay, ay yah, then
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L-up a-loft this yard must go, For it'sa long time a-go

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:35 PM

In A Long Time ago, "Galley old yacht" is almost certainly a mispronunciation of "Galliot" or "Galliot yacht," which was, even then, an archaic rigging style.

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (6)
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:32 PM

A LONG TIME AGO (6)
(from the singing of James P. Barker)
(Doerflinger - Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman -p43)

Then up a-loft this yard must go,
[To me, way, ay, ay, yah,]
Then up a-loft this yard must go,
[For it's a long time a-go]

I placed my hand upon her knee

I think, young man, you're rather free!

Then one more pull and that will do

Oh, one more pull and then it's belay!

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 12:08 PM

A LONG TIME AGO
(From the singing of Patrick Tayluer)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' pp41-43)

variations on the repeat of solo lines shown in parens - though according to the notes the second repeat often began with "Oh," - which is NOT shown...


There was an old lady who lived in Dundee,
[to me way, hay, hay, yah]
There was an old lady who lived in Dundee,
[oh a long time ago]

Now her sons (they) grew up and they all went to sea

One became mate and the other a sailor

But the one that I'm going to tell you of, the story is:

He joined a Hark bound out for the East

And not as a sailor nor yet as a mate

He joined as the master of that fine clipper ship

Now, you all remember the ship that I mentioned.

'Twas the Catty Sark, (and) her name was so high

Now (Oh) he took her out East and he lost his old ship (his whole trip)

He took her out East as these words I have told you

Out to Foochow and then home again

Now, un'appily for him, he married out there

A nice little girl with a long pigtail!

Oh, she wore the trousers and he wore the shirt

But when I can tell you the voyage 'e made 'ome.

Now it's a long, long time and a very long time
Oh a long, long time and a very long time

One hundred and eight days, (oh)he did sail.

And 'e used to look at 'is Chinese wife and say,

If it 'adn't a been for your unluck on board!

Now, a long, long time and a very long time.

Now, I told you he was always a-growlin' at 'is wife,

But when in London he did arrive,

The owners they told him he had made a record voyage!

So what did he do but he's blessed his young wife

And instead of callin' her Mong Sallee

He called her the sweet name of Mong Cutty Sark

Subject: Tune Add: A LONG TIME AGO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 11:44 AM

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L-Oh, a long, long time and a ver-y long time, To me way, ha-ay, hay, yah! Oh, a
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L-long , long time, and a ver-y long time, oh, a long time a-go

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (4)
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 11:25 AM

A LONG TIME AGO (4)
(From the singing of Patrick Tayleur)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' pp40-41)

Where there is a variation in the repeat of the line it is shown in parens

Oh, a long, long time and a ver-y long time,
[To me way, ha-ay, hay yah!]
oh, a long, long time, and a ver-y long time
[oh, a long time a-go]

Old Noah, he built a Hark for to sail (to go)

(Oh) Around the world and home again

Now I wend down to the docks one morn for a ship

There was an old wooden packet a-lyyin' there,

So I wnet on board and sked for a job.

Oh, it (she) must have been the old Ark that Noah built.

Her hatch you had never saw nothing before!

About thirty-six feet long and nowhere insured.

Oh, her knees were so thick that you could not discern.

It's a long, long time and a very long time

Now this is the hatch (where)the animals must have gone down.(went down)

The gangway it was built of timber six foot high

I thought that I had struck an 'ome at last,

Where I could make a pay-day and go

Out to the western shores and away

But I had (I had) made a mistake when I judged her that way,

For at last, when we got out and to sea

Her bow it was bluff and her counter was round

Her fores'l would come to within about six points,

Her fo'c'sle was low and her ppoop was so high

That she looked just like a Dutch galley-old-yacht

So it's a long, long time and a very long time
Oh it's a long long time and a very long time

Subject: Tune Add: A LONG TIME AGO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 11:02 AM

N-A Long Time Ago (3)
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K-F
B-6/8
F-
H-
M-5R-2 R-8 C-0_C-0 F-8_F-8 a-8 G-8 c-4 F-8_E-8 D-8 E-4 C-0 C-0 F-5 G-4_F-8 a-5 C-4 G-0_a-0
L-When I was young and in my prime, To me way-ay-ay yah I
H-
M-4b-8_c-8 b-8 b-8_a-8 F-8 G-8_G-8 a-8 b-8 c-8 b-8 a-5 G-8_F-8 G-8 F-5 R-5
L-thought I'd go and join the line, oh a long time a-go

Subject: Tune Add: A LONG TIME AGO
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 10:42 AM

Two main variations of this tune were given: Set to Verse one and verse two.

N-A Long Time Ago (1)
C-
A-
T-
S-56
K-Ab
B-6/8
F-
H-
M-5R-2 R-8 a-8 a-8_G-8 a-8 b-8_a-9 F-0 G-8 a-8 G-8 F-5 a-5 b-4_a-8 c-5 E-4 c-8
L-A-way down south in old ten-nes-see, Way, hay, hay, yah, a-
H-
M-5d-8_e-8 d-8 c-8_b-8 a-8 F-8 G-8 a-8 b-4 c-0 d-0 c-5 b-8_a-9 b-0 a-5 E-8 F-8 G-8 a-5 b-8_a-9 F-0
L-way down south in old ten-nes-see, oh, a long time a-go 2:It is a long time, a
H-
M-5a-8 a-8 G-8 F-5 a-5 b-4_a-8 c-5 E-4 c-8 d-8_e-8_d-8 c-8_b-8 a-8 F-9 G-0 a-8 b-4 c-0 d-0
L-ver-y long time, way, hay, hay, yah, A long time, a ver-y long time, oh, a
H-
M-2c-5 b-8_a-9 b-0 a-4 R-2
L-long time a-go

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 10:04 AM

just passing it forward...

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: Dead Horse
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 09:48 AM

These sound to me like exremely garbled and mixed up versions of not very well remembered lyrics, therefore are probably exactly what WAS sung aboard ship. The obvious mixture of several shanties, the repeating of single lines, non rhyming couplets, and the transposition of tunes, was a feature which is now sadly lacking in folk orientated "Shanty Singers". It seems to be the done thing to *clean up* these old songs untill they are of Concert Quality.
I commend your efforts, dear sir.

Subject: Tune Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 09:18 AM

N-Roll the Cotton Down (2)
C-
A-
T-
S-56
K-Ab
B-6/8
F-
H-
M-5R-2 R-8 a-8 a-8_G-8 a-8 b-8_a-9 F-0 G-8 a-8 G-8 F-5 a-5 b-4 a-8 c-5 F-4 c-8
L-Down in Al-a-bam-a I was born, Roll the cot-ton down Way
H-
M-4d-8_e-8 d-8 c-8 b-8 a-8 F-8 G-8 a-8 b-4 c-0 d-0 c-5 b-8 a-9 b-0 a-5 R-5
L-down in al-a-bam-a I was born And I rolled the cot-ton down

Subject: Tune Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN
From: MMario
Date: 19 Dec 02 - 09:08 AM

N-Roll the Cotton Down (1)
C-
A-
T-
S-80
K-A
B-4/4
F-
H-
M-4R-3 c-8_b-8 a-4 E-4 C-4 E-4 a-4 a-4 a-2 b-5 b-8 b-5 b-8
L-oh, roll the cot-ton, roll me, boys, Roll the cot-ton
H-
M-4b-3 d-4 c-4 E-4 F-4 E-4 a-4 b-4 c-4 d-4 c-5 a-8 b-9_e-9 G-8
L-Down; Oh, roll the cot-ton, roll me boys, Oh, roll the cot-ton
H-
M-1a-3 R-4
L-down.

Subject: Tune Add: REUBEN RANZO
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 04:37 PM

N-Reuben Ranzo (2)
C-
A-
T-
S-69
K-A
B-2/4
F-
H-
M-7R-4 b-8_b-8 G-8_G-8 b-4 a-4 G-8_G-8 F-5_E-8 G-4 R-4 F-4 F-4 F-5 E-8
L-Oh, pore old Rov-ing Ran-zo, Ran-zo boys, a-
H-
M-8G-4 F-4_F-8 R-8 E-8_F-8 F-5 G-8 F-8_E-8 C-4 E-5_D-8 B-2 E-4 G-4 b-5 a-8
L-Ran-zo! Oh, pore old Rov-ing Ran-zo, Ran-zo boys a-
H-
M-2G-8_F-8 E-4_E-4 R-4
L-Ran-zo!

Subject: Tune Add: HANGING JOHNNY
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 04:24 PM

N-Hanging Johnny
C-
A-
T-
S-58
K-A
B-6/8
F-
H-
M-5R-2 R-8 E-0 F-0 G-4 E-8 F-4 E-8 G-0 b-0_b-8 e-8_e-4_d-8 c-5_c-8_b-8 c-8 b-4 R-8 c-4 c-8
L-Now they call me Hang-ing John-ny. A-way ay-ay, Oh, they
H-
M-5c-4 b-8 b-4 G-8 F-0 E-0_E-4_E-4 R-8 G-5 F-5 E-5_E-4 B-8 G-4 G-8 F-4 E-8
L-say I hang for mon-ey hang, boys, hang! They say I hung my
H-
M-5G-0 b-0_b-8 e-8_e-4_d-8 c-5_c-8_b-8 c-8 b-4 R-8 c-4 c-8 c-4 b-8 b-4 G-8 F-0 E-0_E-4_E-4 R-8
L-dad-dy, Hoo-way, ay, ay, oh they say I've hung my mam-my
H-
M-2G-5 F-5 E-5_E-4 R-8
L-Hang, boys, Hang!

Subject: Tune Add: THE ALABAMA
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 04:09 PM

N-The Alabama (1)
C-
A-
T-
S-100
K-A
B-4/4
F-
H-
M-4R-3 c-9 b-0 a-4 E-4 C-4 E-9_E-0 a-5 F-8 G-2 b-4 b-9 b-0 b-8 c-5
L-When the Al-a-bam-a's keel was laid, Roll, al-a-bam-a,
H-
M-4b-3 c-9_c-0 a-4 E-4 E-9_E-0 C-4 E-9_E-0 a-9_a-0 b-4 c-4 d-4 c-4 c-9 a-0 b-8 e-4
L-roll! They laid her keel in Birk-en-head, oh Roll, Al-a-bam-a
H-
M-1a-3 R-4
L-roll!

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (3)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:37 PM

A LONG TIME AGO (3)
(From the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' p39)

When I was young and in my prime,
[to me way-ay-ay yah,]
I thought I'd go and join the line,
[Oh a long time a-go.]

And as a sailor caught a shine
In a lot they called the Black Ball Line

Now come all you young fellers that's going to sea,
And just listen a while unto me.

I'll sing you a song and I won't keep you long.
It's all about the Black Ball Line

Just see the Black Ballers preparing for sea
You'd split your sides laughing the sights you would see

there's tinkers 'n' tailors, shoemakers 'n' all,
For they're all shipped as sailors on board a Black Ball.

Now, one more pull and we'll let her go
We'll h'ist her up through frost and snow

Just one more pull and we'll show her clew,
And another long pull and that will do.

additional verses:

Around Cape Horn you've got to go;
That's the way to Callao

In the Black Ball Line I served my time
I sailed in the Webb of the Black Ball Line.

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (2)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:37 PM

A LONG TIME AGO (2)
(James H. Williams MS)
(Doerflinger - 'Sings of the Sailor and Lumberman' p 38)

Away down Soouth where I was born,
[To me way, hay, hay, yah!]
Among the fields of cane and corn,
[A long time ago.]

I wish to God I had never been born
To go rambling round and round Cape Horn

Around Cape Horn where wild winds blow
Around Cape Horn thorugh frost and snow

The wind from the sou'west a-blowing a gale,
The packet ship she's crowding sail.

The monkey dressed in the sojer's clo'es,
but where he come from God on'y knows!

Oh, bully John from Baltimore,
I knew you well on the Eastern Shore.

Oh, bully John, I knew him well,
But now he'd dead and gone to hell.

Tis a long, long time and a very long time,
Tis a long time since I made this rhyme

Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (1)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:36 PM

A LONG TIME AGO (1)
(from the singing of William Laurie)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman p 37-38)

A-way dowen South in Old Ten-nes-see,
[Way, hay,hay, yah]
A-way down south in old Ten-nes-see,
[oh, a long time a-go]

It is a long time, a ver-y long time
A long time, a ver-y long time

Since my young lady has written to me, (twice)

Saying, willie dear, come home from sea (twice)

It is a long time, a very long time,
Oh, a long time, a very long time

If ever I get my foot on the shore (twice)

Oh I will go to sea no more!
Oh I will go to the sea no more!

If ever I get my foot on the land, (twice)

I will be some lady's fancy man!
Oh, I will be some lady's fancy man!

It is a long time, a very long time
It's a long time, a very long time.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE ALABAMA (2)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:29 PM

THE ALABAMA (2)
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' -pp36-37)

In eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
[Roll Alabama, roll!]
The Alabama's keel was laid,
[And roll, Alabama, roll!]

Twas laid in the yard of Jonathan Laird
At the town of Birkenhead

At first she was called the 'Two Ninety two'
For the merchants of the city of Liverpool

Put up the money to build the ship,
In the hopes of driving the commerce from the sea.

Down the Mersey she sailed one day
To the port of Fayal in the Western Isles.

There she refitted with men and guns,
and sailed across the Western Sea,

With orders to sink, burn and destroy
all ships belonging to the North.

Till one day in the harbor of Cherbourg she laid,
And the little Kearsarge was waiting there.

and the Kearsarge with Winslow was waiting there,
And Winslow challenged them to fight at sea.

Outside the three mile limit they fought (repeat)

Till a shot from the forward pivot that day
Took the Alabama's steering gear away

And at the Kearsarge's mercy she lay
And Semmes escaped on a British yacht.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE ALABAMA (1)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:28 PM

THE ALABAMA (1)
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - pp 35-36)

When the Al-a-bam-a's keel was laid
[Roll, Al-a-bam-a, Roll!]
They laid her keel in Birk-en-head,
[Oh, Roll, Al-a-bam-a, Roll!]

Oh, she was built at Birkenhead,
she was built in the yard of Jonathan Laird.

And down the Mersey she rolled away,
And Britain supplied her with men and guns

And she sailed away in search of a prize,
And when she came to the port of Cherbourg,

It was there she met with the little Kearsarge.
It was there she met the Ke-arsarge.

It was off Cherbourg harbor in April, '65,
That the Alabama went to a timely grave.

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (3)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:26 PM

ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (3)
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - p 34)

Way down South where I was born
[Roll the cotton down:]
I worked in the cotton and the corn,
[Oh, roll the cotton down.]

When i was young and in my prime,
I thought I'd go and join the Line,

And for a sailor caught a shine,
I joined on a ship of the Swallowtail Line.

(no tune specified)

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (2)
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:25 PM

ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (2)
(from the singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' pp 33-34)
(to the tune of 'A Long time Ago')

Down in Alabama I was born
[Roll the cotton down]
Way done in Alabama I was born
[And I rolled the Cotton Down]

When I was young and in my prime
[Oh, roll the cotton down;]
I thought I'd go and join the Line
[And roll the cotton down]

And as a sailor caught a shine;
[roll the cotton down]
I shipped on board of the Black Ball Line;
[and roll the cotton down]

Now the Black Ball Line is the line for me;
[roll the cotton down]
That's when you want to go on a spree
[And roll the cotton down]

In the Black Ball Line you can cut a big shine;
[oh, roll the cotton down:]
For there you'll wake at any old time,
[And roll the cotton down]

Now see the Black baller prepareing for sea;
[then roll the cotton down]
You'll split your side luaghing, the sights to see,
[and roll the cotton down]

There's tinkers and tailors, shoemakers and all,
[Roll the cotton down]
They're all shanghaied on board the Black Ball
[And roll the cotton down]

Subject: Lyr Add: ROLL THE COTTON DOWN
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:24 PM

ROLL THE COTTON DOWN (1)
(from the singing of John O'Brien)
(doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' p 33

Oh, roll the cot-ton, roll me, boys,
[Roll the cot-ton down]
Oh, roll the cot-ton, roll me, boys,
[Oh roll the cot-ton down]

2.When I was young and in my prime.

3. I thought I'd jine the Black Ball Line.

Subject: Lyr Add: HANGING JOHNNY
From: MMario
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 03:23 PM

HANGING JOHNNY
(from the Singing of Richard Maitland)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' p 31)

Now they call me Hang-ing John-ny
[A-way, ay-ay,]
Oh, they say I hang for mon-ey
[Hang, boys, hang!]

They say I hung my dad-dy
[Hoo-way, ay-ay,]
Oh they say I've hung my mam-my,
[hang, boys, hang!]

I hung my sister Sally,
Now they say I 've hung the fam'ly

Oh, we'll hand , and hang together,
And we'll hang for better weather.

Now, get around the Corner Sally
Oh, we'll make you, Saccarappa!


Note: In the music the for this the refrain after the first line is given as "A-way ( or Hoo-way) ay-ay". In the text of the verses the refrain is given as "hooway-ay hay hay" and "hooway-ay hay ay" Which primarily means (I would guess) that it varies a lot.

Two major variations of the music are given - set to verse one and two.

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 09:06 AM

got the 1980's reprint - very useful.

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: raredance
Date: 18 Dec 02 - 01:19 AM

"Copywork" or otherwise, it's a nice bunch of adds.

rich r

Subject: RE: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 04:26 PM

it's just copywork. Doerflinger and those *he* transcribed from have done all the work.

Subject: Lyr Add: REUBEN RANZO (2)
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 02 - 04:26 PM

REUBEN RANZO (2)
(after the singing of Capt. Patrick Tayleur)
(Doerflinger - 'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' - pp24-25)

Note: Each solo line repeats (except verse 14). if there is a variation it is shown in parens. Bold text is a shout. Pattern as in first verse.

Oh, pore old rov-ing ran-zo,
HAY
[Ran-zo, boys, a-Ran-zo]
Oh, pore old Rov-ing Ran-zo
[Ran-zo boys, a-Ran-zo!]

Now, Ranzo he was (Aw, Ranzo was) no sailor.

So pore old Roving Ranzo,

Now (So) they shipped him on board of a whaler.

Now the captain he liked Ranzo.

So the captain he taught him how to read and write.

He taught him navigation.

when he got his first mate's papers,

He became a terror to whalers!

He was known all over the world as

As the worst old bastard on the seas!

He would take his ship to Georgiay.

And there he'd (he would) drag for sperm whale.

He lost the only ship he had
His first and last and only ship

Was the 'Morgan', and she's known everywhere.

Now (oh), he's gone to hell and we're all glad!

Now, I've told you he was no sailor.

He was a New York tailor.

Whether (oh, whether) a toailor or a sailor

He sure became a Ranzo!