Rolling Home


Rolling Home, Iain MacGillivray, Jolly Jack & Friends, Rolling Down to Old Maui, Shanties & Songs of the Sea, Fellside recordings FECD 140 1999 (Original LP: Rolling Home, 1986, Fellside FE035)


Call all hands to man the capstan
See the cable running clear
Heave away an' with a will boys
For our homeland we will steer

Rollin' home – rollin' home
Rollin' home across the sea
Rollin' home to Caledonia
Rollin' home, dear land, to thee

Fare-you-well you Spanish ladies
We must now bid you adieu
Happy times we spent together
Happy times we spent with you

Round Cape Horn one frosty morning
And our sails were filled with snow
Clear your sheets and sway your halyards
Swing her out and let her go

Now the way we leave behind us
Seems to know the way we go
There's a hearty welcome waiting
In that land to which we go