Rolling Sailor, The

DESCRIPTION: "Don't you see the ships a-coming? Don't you see them in full sail?" They are coming ith the girl's "little rolling sailor" aboard. She rejoices, and says sailors are better than soldiers. She hopes the wars end soon and the press gangs ended
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1986 (Palmer)
KEYWORDS: sailor separation reunion soldier pressgang
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 64, "The Rolling Sailor" (1 composite text, 1 tune)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #379, "My mother sent me out a-fishing" (1 fragment)
Roud #3505
NOTES [54 words]: Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes's fragment runs "My mother sent me out a-fishing, Fishing cockles in the sea. My foot slipped and I tumbled in, Two little nigger boys laughed at me." I'm not sure I'd file it here, although there are similar lyrics in "The Rolling Sailor," but Roud lumps them, so I'm doing the same for simplicity. - RBW
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File: PsSe064

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