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Thread #33324 Message #3387463
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
08-Aug-12 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Rolling Down to Old Maui
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rollin' Down to Old Maui
"The Music of the Waters." [review essay] _Forest and Stream_ 32(5) (21 Feb. 1889). Pg 100.
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Among the odd bits of flotsam and jetsam m the form of song and story that are thrown up each year at this same meet [of the American Canoe Association] is a good sea song which we have never seen in print, a reminiscence of the whaling days of our correspondent "Tarpon," an old sailor as well as canoeist. The first verse is as follows:
"Once more with flowing northern gales
We're bounding o'er the main,
Those verdant hills of the tropic isles
We soon shall see again.
Five sluggish moons have waxed and waned
Since from those shores sailed we.
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground.
Rolling down to old Mohea."
"Rolling down to old Mohea, my boys,
Rolling down to old Mohea,
We're once more bound from the Arctic ground
Rolling down from [sic] old Mohea."
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There is another source, though it does not quote any lyrics, that states this song was introduced to the campers in 1885.