Hi, folks!

I was surfing Mudcat and was utterly flattered to find y'all mentioning a couple of songs I do. "I Am Gone", which MAG mentioned, was written behind the wheel of my car back in 1992 as I drove toward Denver the day after a GREAT sea-shanty session at a tavern in Ruston (Tacoma suburb), WA. The shantyman, the bodhran drummer, and fiddler were (are!) real characters in the local shanty scene.

The "nut-brown maid" verse to "Rollin Down to Old Maui"? Gosh, it's been a long time, and there are SO many verses to that song that I actually rotate them ( I guess the way business executives rotate their silk ties, or the way Neil Young rotates his guitars...)

If I recollect right, the verse MIGHT be:

"Through every storm and winter gale we brought her safely through
Now we'll heave the lead where Diamond Head looms up on old Wahoo (Oahu)
We'll go ashore, we'll have our fun, and paint Lahaina red
And wake up in the arms of a nut-brown maid, with a big, fat achin' head!"

Good talking with you--

Hank Cramer