S. Taylor Harris

S. Taylor Harris – Six Sea Shanties (1925)

S. Taylor Harris – Six Sea Shanties

The full name of this book is: “Six Sea Shanties music / collected from the singing of SM Woodward and edited by AW Whitehead and S. Taylor Harris; and arranged for solo, unison chorus and pianoforte by S. Taylor Harris; with a foreword by John Goss “. It’s amazing how much we can learn from even the title, of this very rare and hard-to-get position. So we have the name of the shantymen, Mr. S. M. Woodward, the author, and the type of instrument for which the score was arranged.
Returning to the item, it contains six sea shanties, along with sheet music.

The introduction of Taylor Harris – Six Sea Shanties front page is also full of information that may be useful. It is worth mentioning that this item is (or should be) especially valuable for Polish shanty lovers, because here for the first time appeared in print, a well-known and popular shanty “hullabaloo-balay”, Polish title ” halabaluby lej “. The copy I bought, was the last copy available in the entire virtual world.

Do you want to be more involved?

You can find excellent records of sea shanties here. If you want to discuss this book or share your opinion you can do it in my Facebook forum here, or below post in the comment section.

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Roll The Woodpile Down – capstan

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.

Roll The Woodpile Down - Capstan Shanty

The musical notation

roll-the-woodpile-down-3 music 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,

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