Rolling Down To Old Maui

July 2, 2024, 3:38 pm

Rolling Down to Old Mohee from the journal of the Atkins Adams, 1858. Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Welcome to the Shantdome! Lyrics taken from /lyrics/s/stan_rogers/. Other Lyrics by Artist. Giveaway giveaways - Let's get in the sea - 01/03/2021 Stream Full VOD. 1] The lyrics are from the point of view of a ship's crew finishing a season of whaling in the northern Pacific and looking forward to a stop in Hawaii, possibly on the way back to the United States or Europe. And their pretty eyes look towards the skies. The words are clearly related to the Huntington version. John Spiers and Jon Boden recorded Old Maui in 2005 for their album Songs and again in 2010/11 for their CD The Works. Taught and free, And we won't give a damn when we drink our rum with the girls. Words & music traditional. We'll wake in the arms. Roud 2005; Ballad Index.

Rolling Down To Old Maui Lyrics

Full of toil and strife. I feel this one is an adaption of Huntington's Songs the Whalemen Sang, and I learned it from Bert Lloyd when he was in Australia in the 1960s. What care we for that sound. Sailing & Singing with Jd, Andy & Dave. Full Friendship followed by Battle Royale! It's an ample share of toil and care we whaler-men undergo, Through many the blow of frost and hale and bitter squalls of snow; Those horrid isles of ice-capped tiles that deck the Polar Sea. Rolling down to old Maui, me boys, rolling down to old Maui, We're homeward bound from the Arctic grounds, rolling down to old Maui. And we'll have our fun when we drink our rum. And them native maids. Lets get damp and sing shanties! It's a damn tough life, full of toil and strife, we whalermen undergo, And we won't give a damn when the gales are done how hard the winds did blow, For we're homeward bound from the Arctic grounds with a good ship taught and free, And we won't give a damn when we drink our rum with the girls from old Maui. Thank God we're homeward bound. Them coconut fronds, them tropical shores. Sometimes mistaken for a Stan Rogers original due to his popularizing it in 1979, this song is actually a traditional forebitter from the mid-19th century; its first written appearance is in the 1858 journal of a sailor aboard the Massachusetts-based Atkins Adams under the title "Rolling Down to Old Mohee. "

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And we don't give a damn when the gale has stopped. "Rolling Down to Old Maui Lyrics. " And in the midst of a moonbeam's kiss we slept at St. Lawrence Bay; And many is the day we whiled away on the bold Kamchatka Sea.

Down To Old Maui

Kamchatka Sea likely refers to either the Sea of Okhotsk, which lies between the eastern Russian mainland and the Kamchatka peninsula, or the Bering Sea, lying east of the Kamchatka peninsula and separating Russia from North America; both were popular whaling destinations. Ian noted: I learned this song a few years ago from fellow ex-Londoner David Jones, and because of a rather poor tape-recorder and an even poorer memory, my rendering of it is a bit different from his (what ever happened to oral transmission? Dreadnoughts, The - Foreign Skies. Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted. Even now their big black eyes look out, Hoping some fine day to sea, Our baggy sails, running 'fore the gales, With the big kanakas all around: With chants and soft "Aloha oe's".

Rolling Down To Old Maui Chords

Dreadnoughts, The - Amiens Polka. With Kharites_ & Krotukk! That deck the Arctic Sea. Well, it's a damn, tough life. But they can look forward to drinking with the women in Maui and getting momentary relief.

Eyes look out, hoping some fine day to see, Our baggy sails, running 'fore the gales, ITALIANO. Lying in the arms of Hawaiian maids. The third verse came from a wandering Drambuie drinker, Dave Alexander, who doubles as a good singer. As we sail to Old Maui. Attraverso ghiaccio e vento e pioggia, e quelle fronde di cocco, quelle terre tropicali, presto vedremo di nuovo; Sei mesi infernali abbiamo passato lontano sul freddo mare Kamchatka, (2). Dreadnoughts, The - The Bay Of Sulva. Looms up on old Wahoo. I will rant and roar and row to shore. And the tropic lands. The tune is The Bowery which was written in 1892, so this American version post dates the more well-known English version of the song. Singing Live Stream and Special Announcement... (7 Aug 2019). Ocean of Larcenists! This is an off-watch song, as distinct from a working song, of whalemen longing for the women and weather of better latitudes.