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Thread #63614 Message #1037939
Posted By: Charley Noble
19-Oct-03 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Rolling Down to Sailortown
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rolling Down to Sailortown
McGrath-
Interesting point but your verse needs Hugill's clarification to make any sense to listeners. Of course, a lot of the other verses above have equally obscure references and we do need verses from the Gulf ports.
I think "Mobile Bay" deserves a verse, given its role as the "Shanty Mart" ascribed to it by Hugill. Some cleaver play on words relating to "screwing cotton all the day," a reference to the giant screw-jacks that were used to further compress bales of cotton so they could be more efficiently be crammed into a ship's hold. Fire Maringo!
There are no West Indies veses! "Shin-Bone Al" is sadly neglected. Where is Sally when we neer her?
Cheerily,
Charley Noble