The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58526   Message #930717
Posted By: GUEST,Q
10-Apr-03 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Watered Down Shanties
Subject: RE: Waterd Down Shanties
Haul Away, Joe!

When I was a little boy,
And so my mother told me,
A-way! haul a-way! we'll haul away- Joe!
That if I didn't fuck the girls,
My balls would get all mouldy,
A-way! haul a-way!
Haul away on the pecker of the Bold Blackamoor!

From Randolph, "Roll Me in Your Arms." Legman explains that, although the Bold Blackamoor was the name of a ship, it is an allusion to the folk belief that the Negro male has a penis longer than that of the average white male.

Shenandora, or the Wide Missouri

Oh, Shenandora, I love your daughter,
(Look) Away! you mighty river!
I love the hole where she makes ater,
AWAY! (my boys,) we're gone away!
Across the wide Missourah.

Also from Randolph, "Roll Me in Your Arms." Apparently there were several versions about the Indian Chief, Shenandore and crossing the wide Missouri Territory.