Interesting Facts about Roll The Woodpile Down – capstan
Roll The Woodpile Down – capstan, is another shanty that is partially related to “Roll The Cotton Down”. This particular version mentioned by Stan Hugill belongs to S. Taylor Harris, and as a chorus instead of “Rollin’, Rollin” is used “Trav’ling, Treav’ling”, and this is all we can get about Harris’s version. The whole version we can find in S. Taylor Harris’s “Six Sea Shanties”(1925), fortunately for me I owned this super unique book, so I will be really pleased to reconstruct this beautiful version. This song I will sing as a capstan shanty.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Six Sea Shanties” by S. Taylor Harris (1925).
The lyrics: “Six Sea Shanties” by S. Taylor Harris (1925).
Mentioned in: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 161).
The Record of the Roll The Woodpile Down – capstan
You also can find this record on my YouTube channel here or directly listen below. Additionally, if you want to share your opinion about the record or share your opinion you can do it in my Facebook forum here, or leave a comment at the bottom of this blog article.
The musical notation
The full lyrics
Roll The Woodpile Down
The white folk larfed as the coon pass’d by,
– ‘Way down in Florida.
The white folk larfed as the coon pass’d by,
– An’ we’ll roll the woodpile down!
– Trav’ling, Trav’ling! as long as the worl’ goes roun’
– That brown gal of mine on the Georgia Line,
– An’ we’ll roll the woodpile down.
* 2 *
The roof do leak and the rain come froo,
The roof do leak and the rain come froo,
* 3 *
Old Runkelkeit was a dam good cook,
Old Runkelkeit was a dam good cook,
* 4 *
Oh! the work is hard and the biscuits too,
Oh! the work is hard and the biscuits too,