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Thread #126347 Message #2879940
Posted By: Charley Noble
05-Apr-10 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
John-
Fore and Aft is certainly another interesting find with its stevedore shanties collected in Mexico.
I hadn't run across that version of "Coal Black Rose" which reminds me of a version of "Hog-Eye Man" that the Boarding Party recorded:
From Fore and Aft: A Story of Actual Sea Life By Robert Brewer Dixon, p. 128
Described as a "pulling song" for loading mahogany logs aboard ship near Vera Cruz, Mexico, up the Coatzacoalcos River to Minatilan:
Oh, Ro-sa in the garden, hang-ing out clothes, Stand be-low, you coal black Rose!