Interesting Facts about Roll The Wood-pile Down – Shore Song
Roll The Wood-pile Down is the Negro version, sailors sometimes sang the chorus from this version: “Haul the woodpile down”. This song will be sung in a halyard shanty tempo, but of course, it is a shore song.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the shore song.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 160).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 161).
The Record Roll The Wood-pile Down – Shore Song
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The full lyrics
Roll The Woodpile Down
Old Aunt Dinah had a farm
– Way down in Florida
Old Aunt Dinah had a farm
– Haul the woodpile down
Related to this song
Hieland Laddie (B) – stevedores chant
The Powder Monkey – Shore Sea-Song
“Roll the Woodpile Down” is a work song long associated with the roustabouts who loaded firewood aboard the steamboats that ran up and down the Mississippi River network in North America. The dip water sailors adapted it for their own work.
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