Interesting Facts about the Roller Bowler – Liverpool Version
“Roller Bowler – Liverpool Version”, the capstan shanty, that Stan Hugill counts as the family of the shanties uses the expression “high-rig-a-jig”. According to an author of the “Shanties From The Seven Seas”, is definitely Negro-Irish type of sailor work-song. Shanty that was sung aboard the West Indian Sugar and Rum Traders, Stan Hugill tells us this version is sung to him by an ancient mariner from Bootle.
This song will be reconstructed as the capstan shanty.
The source of the Roller Bowler – Liverpool Version
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 348).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 348, 349).
The Record of this sea shanty
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
Roller Bowler – Liverpool Version
Oh, I met her once in Liverpool,
– Hooraw, you roller bowler!
Oh, I met her once in Liverpool,
This saucy gal of mine,
– Timme high-rig-a-jig an’ a ha-ha!
– Good mornin’, ladies all.
– Hooraw, you roller bowler,
– Timme high-rig-a-jig an’ a ha-ha!
– Good mornin’, ladies all.
* 2 *
Oh, the first time that I saw her,
Oh, the first time that I saw her,
‘Twas down in Parkee Lane.
* 3 *
She winked and tipped her flipper,
She-winked and tipped her flipper,
She tought I wuz a Mate.
* 4 *
But when she found that I wuz skint,
But when she found that I wuz skint,
She left me standing there.
* 5 *
She left me there in Parkee Lane,
She left me there in Parkee Lane,
An’ I went back on board.