Interesting Facts about the River Shenandore – Laura Alexandrine Smith Version
This is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the River Shenandore – Laura Alexandrine Smith Version. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This is the version when crossed Sally Brown.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “The Music of The Waters” by Laura Alexandrine Smith (1888) (1st ed p 51).
The lyrics: “The Music of The Waters” by Laura Alexandrine Smith (1888) (1st ed p 51).
Mentioned in: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 177).
The Record of the River Shenandore – Laura Alexandrine Smith Version
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River Shenandore (Laura A Smith Version)
You Shanandore, I long to hear you, – Hurrah, you rollin’ river! You Shanandore, I long to hear you, – Ah, ha, you Shanandore.
This is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This is the version when crossed Sally Brown.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 175).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 176, 177).
The Record of the Shenandoah D
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The full lyrics
Shenandoah D
O Sally Brown, I love your daughter, Away, ye rollin’ river! For her I sail across the water, Away we’re bound to go; ‘Crosst the wide Missourah!
* 2 *
O Shenandoah’s a big plantation, I’m shantyman of the Wild Goose Nation.
* 3 *
O Sally’s gal just took me fancy, She’s clipper built;her name is Nancy.
* 4 *
O Sally Brown, I love yer dearly, Ye had me heart or very nearly.
* 5 *
She lives alone in Kingston City, It can’t be helped; oh more’s the pity,
* 6 *
I bought her coral beads and laces, Often call her ‘Queen o’ Faces’.
* 7 *
Seven long years I courted Sally, The sweetest flower in the valley.
* 8 *
Farewell, me dear; I’m bound; ter leave yer I’m bound away; but won’t; deceive yer.
Shenandoah C is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This version comes from Captain Frank H. Shaw’s “Splendour Of The Seas” (1953), Captan Shaw wrote: “Perhaps the best known, certainly the favourite amongst windjammer men was ‘Shenandoah’. To hear these sweet strains floating over a placed anchorage as a crowd of half-sober men walk around the back-breaking capstan is to get the real poetry and splendour of the seas.
Even as a concert ditty the song has infinite charm. It seems to have a Negro origin because the Shenandoah river flowed through the slave-states below the Mason and Dixon Line, and whoever first sang it was obviously pinning for the delights of that considerable stream. Its composition throws an interesting sidelight on the conditions of life aboard the hard-case Yankee packets if even the slavery so poignantly described by Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe was preferable to existence aboard these hell-and-be-damned vessels!”
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 176).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 176).
The Record of the Shenandoah C
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The full lyrics
Shenandoah C
Oh Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer, – Away, ye rollin’ river! Oh Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer, – Away we’re bound to go, – ‘Crosst the wide Missourah!
* 2 *
O Shenandoah, I took a notion, To sail across the stormy ocean.
* 3 *
O Shenandoah, I’m bound ter leave yer, O Shenandoah, I’ll not deceive yer.
* 4 *
O Shenandoah, I love yer daughters, I love the music of yer waters.
* 5 *
‘Tis seven long years since last I seed yer, But, Shenandoah, I’ll never grieve yer,
* 6 *
O Shenandoah’s my native valley, Beside her waters I love to dally.
* 7 *
O Shenandoah she’s a lovely river, An’ I shall never forget you ever.
Shenandoah B, is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This was a very popular version about an Indian chief.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 175).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 175).
The Record of the Shenandoah B
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The full lyrics
Shenandoah B
Oh Missourah she’s a mighty water, – Away, ye rollin’ river! The red skin camp lies on her border, – Away we’re bound to go, – ‘Crosst the wide Missourah!.
* 2 *
O Shenandoah wuz a redskin maiden, And a white man loved that redskin maiden,
* 3 *
Oh, the white man loved the Indian maiden, With trade-goods his canoe was laden.
* 4 *
The chief refused the trader’s dollars My daughter ye shall never follow
* 5 *
At last there came a Yankee skipper Who winked his eye and flipped his flipper
* 6 *
He sold the chief some fire-water, And stole the gal across the water.
* 7 *
O Shenandoah, I love yer daughter, I’ll take her sailing cross yon rollin’ water,
This is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This is the first version — of Negro — origin, what Stan Hugill obtained from coloured cook (doctor) of the “Birkdale”, which had sailed for many years in the “Dales”, and in the “Invers” of the Milne Line of sailing ship.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 175).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 173, 175).
The Record of the Shenandoah A
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Shenandoah A
Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer, Hooray, you rollin’ river! O Shenandoah, I cain’t git near yer, High-ya! I’m bound away, On the wide Missouri.
* 2 *
Shenan-doah, me daddy’s ner yer O Shenan–doah, I seem ter hear yer.
* 3 *
Shenan-doah, me mudder’s near ye. O Shenan-doah, for ye I’m weary.
* 4 *
Can the piccanninies hear ye? O Shenan-doah, me heart’s a-dreary.
* 5 *
Shenan-doah, again I’ll hear ye. O Shenan-doah, in dreams I’m near ye.
Another representative of “roll and go” is “Randy Dandy O!”, a capstan and pumps song heard mainly aboard the old Cape Horners. This song comes from my favored shantyman Harding Barbadian, who declared to Stan Hugill, that it was popular on one of the small Nova Scotian barque he was once shipped in.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 168).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 168).
The Record of the Randy Dandy O!
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Randy Dandy O!
Now we are ready to head for the Horn, – Way, ay, roll an, go! Our boots an, our clothes, boys, are all in the pawn, – Timme rollockin’ randy dandy O!
– Heave a pawl, O heave away! – Way ay, roll an, go! – The anchor’s on board an’ the cable’s all stored, – Timme rollockin’ randy dandy O!
* 2 *
Soon we’ll be warping out through the locks, Where the pretty young gals all come down in their flocks,
* 3 *
Come breast the bars, bullies, an’ heave her away, Soon we’ll be rollin’ her ‘way down the Bay,
* 4 *
Sing goodbye to Sally an’ goodbye to Sue, For we are the boy-os who can kick ‘er through.
* 5 *
Oh, man the stout caps’n an’ heave with a will, Soon we’ll be drivin’ her ‘way down the hill.
* 6 *
Heave away, bullies, ye parish-rigged bums, Take yer hands from yer pockets and don’t suck yer thumbs.
* 7 *
Roust ‘er up, the wind’s drawin’ free, Let’s get the glad-rags on an’ drive ‘er to sea.
* 8 *
We’re outward bound for Vallipo Bay, Get crackin’, m’ lads, ’tis a hell o’ a way!
This is another shanty with “Roll and Go!”. This song is another diamond found by Cecil Sharp, which has been sung by a very famous shantyman called Short of Watchet, Somerset, who said it was used at the capstan. This song is a combination of “Sally Brown” and “A Long Time Ago”.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 167).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 167).
The Record of the Roll And Go
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Roll And Go
O Sally Brown she promised me, – A long time ago. She promised for to mary me. – Way-ay roll and go, O she promised for to mary me. – A long time ago!
* 2 *
O Sally Brown’s the girl for me, – A long time ago. O Sally Brown she slighted me, – Way-ay roll and go, O Sally Brown she slighted me, – A long time ago!
* 3 *
As I walked out one morning fair, – A long time ago. It’s then I met her I do declare, – Way-ay roll and go, It’s then I met her I do declare, – A long time ago!
This is another “roll” shanty, the most famous “Roll an’ Go!”, also known as “Sally Brown”. Sally Brown (C) is the halyard shanty, as Stan Hugill mentions it is only one theme of this song, and it is – all about Sally and her daughter. As the author of “Shanties from The Seven Seas” mentioned – there existed many obscene verses, which accounts partly for the fact that popularity never waned! Stan Hugill heard this version, very popular on halyards, from Old Smith of Tobago, a great West Indian shantyman.
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 165).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 163).
The Record of the Sally Brown (C)
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Sally Brown (C)
Oh! Sally Brown she’s a bright mulato, – WAY-ay, ay, ay, YAH! Oh, She drinks rum an’ chaws terbacco, – Oh, WALK along you SALly Brown!
* 2 *
Sally lives on the old plantation, She is daughter of the Wild Goose Nation.
* 3 *
Seven long years I courted Sally, But all she did was dilly-dally,
* 4 *
Sally Brown’s a big buck creole, Her bow is big, but her starn is bigger.
* 5 *
I brought her growns an’ I bought ‘er laces, Took her out to all the places.
* 6 *
Sally’s teeth are white an’ pearly, Her eyes are black an’ her hair is curly.
* 7 *
Sally lives in ol’ Jamaica, Sellin’ rum an’ grown’ terbacker
* 8 *
I call her my ol, Queen of Faces, Bought her coral beads an’ laces.
* 9 *
The sweetest flower in the valley, Is my own my pretty Sally.
* 10 *
Sally Brown, what is the matter? Pretty gal, but can’t git at her.
* 11 *
Sally Brown, I love ye dearly, Ye had me heart, or very nearly.
Interesting Facts about Sally Brown (A – Dick Maitland version)
This Sally Brown (A – Dick Maitland version), was sung by Dick Maitland, a shantyman whose shanties were the core of the collection of William Main Doerflinger. Here is how this shanty was commented by Doerflinger: Favorite heroine of shanty lore was the beguiling, rum-drinking, fickle Sally Brown. “Some people might think Sally Brown was rather immoral,” Dick Maitland philosophized, “but it was the way of the world in the days!” This I another “roll” shanty, the most famous “Roll an’ Go!”, also known as “Sally Brown”. This is a capstan shanty, as Stan Hugill mentions it is only one theme of this song, and it is – all about Sally and her daughter. As the author of “Shanties from The Seven Seas” mentioned – there existed many obscene verses, which accounts partly for the fact that popularity never waned!
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shantymen And Shantyboys” by William Main Doerflinger (1951).
The lyrics: “Shantymen And Shantyboys” by William Main Doerflinger (1951).
Mentioned in: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 164).
The Record of the Sally Brown (A – Dick Maitland version)
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Sally Brown (A – Dick Maitland version)
Saly Brown was a gay old lady, – Way-ay, Roll and go! Oh, Saly Brown was a Creole lady, – Spend my money on Sally Brown!
* 2 *
She had a farm in the isle of Jamaica, Where she raised sugarcane, rum an, terbacker.
* 3 *
Also she had a fine young daughter, And that’s the gal that I was after,
* 4 *
Seven long years I courted the daughter, And when I asked her if she’d marry,
* 5 *
She would not have a tarry sailor! She would not have a tarry sailor!
* 6 *
“Those lily-white hands and slender waist? A tarry sailor I’ll ne’er embrace!”
* 7 *
But now my troubles they’re almost over, Sally got married to a creol solider.
* 8 *
He beat and abused her and stole her money, And left her with creol baby.
* 9 *
One night she was taken with a pain in her belly, And they sent for a doctor and his name was kelly.
* 10 *
He rode a horse with a ropeyarn bridle, And he laid young Sally on the table
* 11 *
And from her took a little tar baby. Oh, Sally dear, why didn’t you have me?
Interesting Facts about Sally Brown (A – Stanley Slade version)
This I another “roll” shanty the most famous “Roll an’ Go!”, also known as “Sally Brown”, this particular version is called, Sally Brown (A – Stanley Slade). This is a capstan shanty, as Stan Hugill mentions it is only one theme of this song, and it is – all about Sally and her daughter. As the author of “Shanties from The Seven Seas” mentioned – there existed many obscene verses, which accounts partly for the fact that popularity never waned! Stan Hugill mentions that, with this version of the melody, the word was always added to make the text match the notes. A very famous shantyman from Bristol, Stanley Slade always sang in this fashion.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 163).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 163, 164).
The Record of the ut Sally Brown (A – Stanley Slade version)
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Sally Brown (A – Stanley Slade version)
Ooh! Sally Brown she’s a bright mulatter, – Way-hay, Roll an’ go! She drinks rum and ALWAYS chaws terbacker, – Spend my money on Sally Brown!
* 2 *
Sally lives on the old plantation, She is daughter of the ANCIENT Wild Goose Nation.
* 3 *
Seven long years I courted Sally, But all she did was GREATLY dilly-dally,
* 4 *
Sally’s teeth are white an’ pearly, Her eyes are black an’ her LOVELY hair is curly.
* 5 *
Sally lives in ol’ Jamaica, Sellin’ rum an’ grown’ STRONG terbacker
* 6 *
I call her my ol, Queen of Faces, Bought her coral beads an’ SEXY laces.
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