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Thread #54404   Message #841954
Posted By: GUEST,Q
05-Dec-02 - 08:51 PM
Thread Name: Steamboat coonjine songs
Subject: RE: Steamboat coonjine songs
Does anyone know the roustabout songs Rango, Rango, or Roll, Molly, Roll? Supposedly "unprintable."

(Not the Spanish language Rango, Rango or the performer.)

A reminder of another steamboat rouster song- "Wake Up, Sleepy," from Lomax, thread 41618: Wake Up, Sleepy We have too few of these songs that are legitimate. At the height of the river steamboat traffic, perhaps 75,000-100,000 men were employed at any one time on board the ships and countless more brought goods to the planks of the loading areas.