Roll Boys Roll - Sally Brown
Roll Boys Roll (Sally Brown)
Oh! Sally Brown, she's the gal for me boys
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
Oh! Sally Brown is the gal for me boys
Way high, Sally Brown
Headed out, we're goin' down south, boys
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
Headed out, we're goin' down south, boys
Way high, Sally Brown
We're headed down to Trinidad to see Miss Lucy
Loo
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
Headed down to Trinidad to see Miss Lucy Loo
Way high, Sally Brown
She's lovely up aloft, and she's lovely down
below
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
She tells me that she loves me, that's all I want
to know
Way high, Sally Brown!
Old Captain Barker, how do you store yer cargo?
Roll Boys! Roll boys roll!
Some I stow forward, boys, and some I stow after
Way high, Sally Brown!
There's forty fathoms or more below boys
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
Forty fathoms or more below boys
Way high, Sally Brown!
Oh, way high ya, and up she rises
Roll Boys! Roll boys roll!
Way high ya, and the blocks is different sizes
Way high, Sally Brown!
Oh, one more pull, don't ya hear the captain
calling?
Roll, boys! Roll boys roll!
Oh, one more pull, that's the end of all the
hauling
Way high, Sally Brown!
Books
- Stan Hugill, Shanties from the Seven Seas (1961), pp. 137-138. Learned from Harding of Barbados in the 1930s. Primary source for this version.
- Joanna C. Colcord, Songs of American Sailormen (1924), p. 82
- William Main Doerflinger, Shantymen and Shantyboys (1951), pp. 74-76. Versions from Dick Maitland and Captain Patrick Tayluer.
- Cecil Sharp, English Folk-Chanteys (1914). Collected from shantyman Charles Robbins in the Marylebone Workhouse, London, 1909.
- Frederick Marryat, A Diary in America (1839). Earliest known reference, heard at the capstan of a Western Ocean packet ship, April 1837.
- R.R. Terry, The Shanty Book (1921)
- John Masefield, A Sailor's Garland (1906)
Recordings
- A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, A Sailor's Garland (Prestige, 1962)
- A.L. Lloyd, Sea Shanties (Topic, 1974)
- Paul Clayton, Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick (Tradition, 1956)
- Stan Hugill, A Salty Fore Topman (cassette, with Stormalong John)
- The Shanty Men (Johnny Collins), The Shanty Men (Greenwich Village, 1978)
- Sean Dagher, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Sea Shanty Edition, Vol. 2 (2014)
- Alan Lomax, field recording in Nevis (1962), as "Feeny Brown"