Rise and Shine on the Black Ball Line

DESCRIPTION: "Rise and shine on the Black Ball Line! Show a leg for a sea-boot!"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: ship clothes | Rise and shine Black Ball Line
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 123, "Rise and shine on the Black Ball Line" (1 short text)
Roud #25530
NOTES [112 words]: One has to suspect that Alice Kane's snippet is a fragment of a known shantey. But it's so short, and the Black Ball Line so widely mentioned, that there isn't really any way to say which shantey it comes from.
Or maybe it's a Royal Navy chant. David Phillipson, Roll on the Rodney: Life on the Lower Decks of Royal Navy Warships After the Second World War, Sutton Publishing, 1999, p. 83, mentions a Royal Navy chant used to get sailors out of their hammocks:
Wakey, wakey, rise and shine!
The morning's fine and you've 'ad your time!
'Eave-o, 'eave-o, 'eave-o
Show a leg, show a leg!
'Ands off cocks and on socks!
Look lively now,
'Eave-o, 'eave-o, lash and stow. - RBW
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File: KSUC123B

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