Interesting Facts about Roll Boys Roll!
This is another “Roll” halyard shanty that comes from Stan Hugill’s friend, Harding, “Roll, Boys, Roll!”. According to Stan Hugill, when Harding Barbadian from Barbados sang it had its full complement of grace notes and yells, this song has the first time in print in Stan Hugill’s “Shanties From The Seven Seas”.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the halyard shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 170).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 170).
The Record of the Roll Boys Roll!
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The full lyrics
Roll Boys Roll!
Oh! Sally Brown she’s the gal for me, boys,
– ROLL, boys, ROOLL boys, roll!
Sally Brown she’s the gal for me, boys,
– WAY, high, Miss SALLY Brown!
* 2 *
We’re bound away — ‘way down south, boys,
We’re bound away — ‘way down south, boys,
* 3 *
We’re rollin’ down to Trinidad to see Miss Sally Brown
We’re rollin’ down to Trinidad to see Miss Sally Brown
* 4 *
Oh, she’s lovely up aloft, an’ she’s lovely down below.
Oh, she’s lovely up aloft, an’ she’s lovely down below.
* 5 *
She’s lovely up aloft, an’ she’s lovely down below,
She’s lovely ‘cos she loves me, boys, that’s all I want ter know.
* 6 *
Ol’ Capen Baker, how do yer stow yer cargo?
Some I stow for’ard, boys, an’ some I stow arter.
* 7 *
Forty fathoms or more below, boys,
There’s forty fathom or more below, boys,
* 8 *
Oh, way high ya, an’ up she rises,
O way high ya, an’ the blocks is different sizes.
* 9 *
One more pull–don’t yer hear the mate a-bawlin’?
One more pull, dat’s the end of all our haulin’.
Related to this shanty
A Long Time Ago – Gordon Hitchcock version