134 - Roll, Boys, Roll! - halyard shanty

This is another "Roll" halyard shanty that comes from Stan Hugill's friend, Harding, "Roll, Boys, Roll!". According to Stan Hugill, when Harding Barbadian from Barbados sang it had its full complement of grace notes and yells, this song has been the first time in print in Stan Hugill's "Shanties From The Seven Seas".
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 170).


Roll, Boys, Roll!


Oh! Sally Brown she's the gal for me, boys,
   - ROLL, boys, ROLL boys, roll!
Sally Brown she's the gal for me, boys,
   - WAY, high, Miss SALLY Brown!

                      *2*
We're bound away -- 'way down south, boys,
We're bound away -- 'way down south, boys,

                      *3*
We're rollin' down to Trinidad to see Miss Sally Brown
We're rollin' down to Trinidad to see Miss Sally Brown

                      *4*
Oh, she's lovely up aloft, an' she's lovely down below.
Oh, she's lovely up aloft, an' she's lovely down below.

                      *5*
She's lovely up aloft, an' she's lovely down below,
She's lovely 'cos she loves me, boys, that's all I want ter know.

                      *6*
Ol' Capen Baker, how do yer stow yer cargo?
Some I stow for'ard, boys, an' some I stow arter.

                      *7*
Forty fathoms or more below, boys,
There's forty fathom or more below, boys,

                      *8*
Oh, way high ya, an' up she rises,
O way high ya, an' the blocks is different sizes.

                      *9*
One more pull--don't yer hear the mate a-bawlin'?
One more pull, dat's the end of all our haulin'.