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Thread #43994   Message #649829
Posted By: Madam Gashee
14-Feb-02 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Down Trinidad (chantey)
Subject: Lyr Add: DOWN TRINIDAD
Here's the words as collected by James Madison Carpenter & sung by Richard Warner.

DOWN TRINIDAD

Solo: Oh, massa stevedore, how you stow your coargo?
Chorus: Way sing Sunny Dore!
Solo: Oh, tell me massa stevedore, how you stow your coargo?
Chorus: Bound down Trinidad to look for Sunny Dore

Solo: Oh booch free me bully boys and burtoned in the archway
Chorus: Way sing Sunny Dore!
Solo: Oh booch free me bully boys and burtoned in the archway
Chorus: Bound down Trinidad to look for Sunny Dore

Solo: Oh Trinidad, oh Trinidad, The pretty little harbour
Chorus: Way sing Sunny Dore!
Solo: Oh Trinidad, oh Trinidad, The pretty little harbour
Chorus: Bound down Trinidad to look for Sunny Dore

Solo: What will you do with Sunny Dore, if you should ever find her?
Chorus: Way sing Sunny Dore!
Solo: What will you do with Sunny Dore, if you should ever find her?
Chorus: Bound down Trinidad to look for Sunny Dore

Solo: Oh, roll her in the grass me boys, and all amongst the clover
Chorus: Way sing Sunny Dore!
Solo: Oh, roll her in the grass me boys, and all amongst the clover
Chorus: Bound down Trinidad to look for Sunny Dore

The EFDSS very kindly got the copy to me.