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Thread #91943 Message #1752322
Posted By: Barry Finn
03-Jun-06 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sally Brown -- unexpurgated
Subject: RE: Sally Brown -- unexpurgated
Here's a verse from another BWI shantey (only 2 verses are given & they're both the the same). The tune is close to the tune used for the 1st Sally Brown given above, maybe there's a relation? Also from Roger Abrahams collection, no tune given in the book, the tune comes from Rogers's field recordings.
The whores on shoe love sailor' man money
Roll, roll, roll & go
Roll & go from Calais to Dover
(I) Spend my money on the whores on shore
Roger follows with:
"And, as in every West Indain tradition, there are a few songs of contempt for the people in neighboring towns. The following takes aim at the girls at Rosebank, branding them as whores."
Source folows follows with:
"That shanty was made up on Rosebank. He belongs to Barouallie here. He used to be down there fishing. Perhaps he ain' make it up, but he is the first person we heard sing it. Mr. Swaby Fredrick."
Barry