Please help--Rock A Bye My Saro Jane lyrics
mick
Does anyone have, or can point me to, the lyrics for Rock A Bye My
Saro Jane? They obviously are not in the Lyrics book. I would really
appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
sadiejane
In article <5bb78l$q...@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>,
nrb...@ix.netcom.com (mick) wrote:
apologies in advance for any typos...
Sarah Jane
(arranged by Bob Dylan 1974, Big Sky Music)
I've got a wife and five little children
I'm gonna take a trip on the big McMillan
With Sarah Jane (Sarah Jane)
Ain't nothin' to do
But to set down and sing
And rock about my Sarah Jane
Whistle done blows and the fiddler squalls
Captain gone through hole-in-the-wall
Oh, Sarah Jane (Sarah Jane)
Ain't nothin' to do
But to set down and sing
And rock about my Sarah Jane
Yankee built boats to shoot them Rebels
My gun's steady gonna hold it level
Sarah Jane (Sarah Jane)
Sarah Jane (Sarah Jane)
Ain't nothin' to do
But to set down and sing
And rock about my Sarah Jane
(first verse repeated)
And here it is from a book I have of folk songs edited by Lomax and Son....
"...Most of these roustabout tunes run to the blues. They are moans of
poor boys a long way from home or even more primitive African work cries.
Some, again, are quicksteps to the shuffling rhythm along the gangplank.
Such a one is "Rock About My Saro Jane," which Uncle Dave Macon tells us he
learned from Negro singers in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1887. It is the
story of a Negro rouster, recurited to serve on one of the Federal gunboats
that cut the rebel supply lines in the Civil War."
Rock About My Saro Jane
I've got a wife an' a five li'l' chillun,
B'lieve I'll make a trip on the big Macmillan.
O Saro Jane!
chorus:
O there's nothing to do but to set down and sing
And rock about, mmy Saro Jane.
O rock about, my Saro Jane.
O rock about, my Saro Jane,
O htere's nothign to do b
But to set down and sing
And rock about, my Saro Jane.
B'iler busted and whitle done blowed,
The head cap'n done fell over board
O, Saro Jane!
Engine give a crack and the whistle give a squall,
The engineer gone to the Hole-In-the-wall,
O, Saro Jane!
Yankees build boats for to shoot them rebels,
my muske't loaded and I'm gonna hold her level,
O, Saro Jane!
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xx
sadie AKA sarah jane
Delia ain't dead, she just changed her name...