Interesting Facts about the Ten Stone
“Ten Stone” is a windlass song given only by Bullen & Arnold. The song is Negro origin. Bullen mentioned he heard it himself when was sang by Negro working a dolly-winch on his ship in Georgetown, “Demera”. The music and lyrics are exactly the same as given originally in F.T. Bullen’s “Songs Of Sea Labour” (1914).
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 268).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 268).
The Record of the Ten Stone
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
Ten Stone
I neber seen de like sence I ben born!
– Way, ay, ay ay ay!
Nigger on the ice an’ a-hoe-in’ up corn,
– Way, ay, ay ay ay!
Ten stoone! ten stone!
– ten stone de win’ am o-ber,
Ten-ny git a-long, Ten-ny blow the horn,
– As we go march-in’ o-ber!