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Posted By: Charley Noble
31-Oct-05 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: C. Fox Smith PermaThread
Subject: RE: C. Fox Smith PermaThread
THE WIDE MISSOURI (Capstan Shanty)
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you – Away, my rolling river! Oh Shenandoah, I can't get near you – Way–ay, I'm bound away Across the wide Missouri.
Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter! Away, my rolling river! She lives across the stormy water – Way–ay, I'm bound away Across the wide Missouri.
Oh Shenandoah, I've took a notion – Away, my rolling river! To sail across the stormy ocean – Way–ay, I'm bound away Across the wide Missouri.
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you – Away, my rolling river! Oh Shenandoah, I can't get near you – Way–ay, I'm bound away Across the wide Missouri.
Notes by CFS, p. 64:
This, better known, perhaps, as "Shenandoah," or, in shellback fashion, "Shannadore" – was a general favourite before the eighteen-nineties, but it seems to have been heard comparatively seldom after that date. It is a particularly fine tune, and possesses an orthodox set of words which by no means live up to the beauty of the melody: most shantymen, however, seem to have contented themselves with the stereotyped tags – "Oh Shannadore, I long to hear you," and so forth. Whall (Capt. W.B., SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES, 1910) says it is a shore song turned into a shanty: however that may be, the very soul of the sea seems to speak in it more than any other shanty I know.
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