069 - Banks Of Sacramento (Patterson Halyard version) - (WITH PRESENTATION)

EN
Patterson's version is like Patterson's shanties, unusual. The first difficulty is that Patterson in his book doesn't give us music. In almost every his shanty he inserts short refrains where usually no refrain existed. Stan Hugill says that Patterson called his shanty 'hauling song', and gives us one stanza, but is not entirely true, because Patterson (J. E. Patterson "The Sea's Anthology" 1913) labeled this song as 'Capstan.' and give three verses, and after these three verses, he gives another 4 verses under the label "The same: as a hauling chanty'". So this song will be 'hauling song', particularly the Halyard shanty Capstan version I will sing separately.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 112).



Banks Of Sacramento (Patterson Halyard version)


Now, my lads, get your beds and lie down
    - With a HOOdah!
Now, my lads, get your beds and lie down
    - With a HOOdah, hoodah-DAY!

Blow, boys, blow, for Californi-O
    - With a HOOdah!
There's plenty of gold, so I've been told,
   - On the BANks of Sacramen-TO!

                     *2*
We came to a land where the cocktail flows
    - With a hoodah!
We came to a land where the cocktail flows
    - With a hoodah, hoodah-DAY!

Blow, boys, blow, for Californi-O
    - With a hoodah!
There's plenty of gold, so I've been told,
   - On the BANks of Sacramen-TO!

                     *3*
We came to a river where we couldn't get across
    - With a hoodah!
And the plenty of gold, as I'll have you told, Was a bully, bully loss
    - With a hoodah, hoodah-DAY!

Blow, boys, blow, for Californi-O
    - With a hoodah!
There's plenty of gold, so I've been told,
   - On the BANks of Sacramen-TO!