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Thread #6189 Message #35822
Posted By: SHANTYMAN
24-Aug-98 - 01:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'Row On' & 'Bully Song'
Subject: RE: lyrics wanted
Row on
a lament found by Gail Huntington in an 1846 journal from the New Bedford Whaler "Three Brothers"
Tune by Tim Laycock
refrain
Row on row on another day
may shine with brighter light
like......????? the oars and pull away
??????/ under way??
The Bully song
a boatman sung this on the Ohio River in 1896 With new lyrics is was a hit sung by May Irwin in the play The Widow Jones. The first popular ragtime song, it made its way down to the sea and turns up in the journal of U.S. Naval Midshipman CW Cole aboard the training ship U.S.S. Monongahela in the summer of that year.
The song starts with something like this Have you heard about the bully he is just come to town
He is rounding all the boatmen and he is laying them body's down
I am a Tenessee boatman and I don't allow
A red eyed river roustabout..........
I am looking for that bully and he must be found