Hop Along, Let's Get Her

DESCRIPTION: Call and response: Leader sings "I see the (name of boat?)" "Loaded with people" "Comin' off the island" "She's heavy loaded" "That's a ring-tailed gator" .... Response "Hop-a-long let's get 'em" "Carry in tow the island" "Gator off the island" ...
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (LomaxCD1713)
KEYWORDS: ship work nonballad shanty animal
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Morrison, John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Hop Along, Let's Get Her" (on LomaxCD1713)
NOTES [24 words]: Alan Lomax and Anna L. Chairetakis, liner notes for LomaxCD1713 have this as a "hauling and lifting chantey from the days of the schooners." - BS
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File: RdHALGHe

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