The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136388   Message #3118706
Posted By: Charley Noble
21-Mar-11 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: March Shanty Session@Press Room-NH
Subject: RE: March Shanty Session@Press Room-NH
Ernie-

An excellent job! And you kept much better track of who was in the room than I ever did.

However, "Roll the Cotton Down" while part of the chorus is not the name of C. Fox Smith's poem which is titled "Mobile Bay." It gets more complicated in that her poem is a tribute to the traditional shanty "Roll the Cotton Down" which she collected a version of as published in A BOOK OF SHANTIES, © 1927.

Oh, and "Steamboat Day" should be "Steamboat Days."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble