Roller Bowler

DESCRIPTION: Shanty. Short refrain: "Hooray you roller bowler." Full refrain: Timme high-rig-a-jig and a ha ha ha, Good morning ladies all." Verses concern courting or at least chasing women.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Sharp-EnglishFolkChanteys)
KEYWORDS: shanty courting
FOUND IN: Britain West Indies
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 348-349, "Roller Bowler" (3 texts, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 260-263]
Sharp-EnglishFolkChanteys, XII, pp. 14-15, "Roller, Bowler" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #8283
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Good Morning, Ladies All
NOTES [31 words]: Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas says [this is] of Negro-Irish origin. Sharp's version was collected in Bristol, but it was also well known among the West Indian Sugar and Rum Traders. - SL
File: Hugi348

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