{"id":7295,"date":"2010-09-01T05:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T09:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:30:10","slug":"rolling-down-to-old-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7295","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Down To Old Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Maui.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Maui.mp3\">Rolling Down To Old Maui &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This is a Pacific whaling song. Most whaling songs I know are Atlantic based, sailing to Iceland and Greenland whale fisheries. This is the story of a ship based in Maui that sailed to the   <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kamchatka_Peninsula\">Kamchatka_Peninsula<\/a> where there were many types of whales in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>I would encourage you to listen to this with large speakers or earphones, as there some low frequencies that will surely be lost through computer sound systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em] It\u2019s a mighty tough [B7] life [Em] full of toil and [B7] strife<br \/>\n[Em] We whaler-men [D] under [Em] go\u2028[Em]<br \/>\nAnd we really don\u2019t [B7] care when the [Em] gale is [B7] done<br \/>\n[Em] How hard them [D] winds did [Em] blow<br \/>\n[G] We\u2019re homeward bound from the [D] Arctic Sound<br \/>\nWith a [C] good ship taut and [B7] free\u2028[Em]<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019ll have our [B7] fun when we [Em] drink our [B7] rum<br \/>\n[Em] With the girls of [D] Old [Em] Maui<br \/>\nCH<br \/>\n[G] Rolling down to Old [D] Maui, me boys\u2028[C]<br \/>\nRolling down to Old [B7] Maui\u2028[Em]<br \/>\nWe\u2019re homeward [B7] bound from the [Em] Arctic [B7] Ground\u2028[Em]<br \/>\nRolling down to [D] Old [Em] Maui<\/p>\n<p>Once more we sail with a Northerly gale<br \/>\nThrough the ice, and wind, and rain<br \/>\nThem coconut fronds, them tropical lands<br \/>\nWe soon shall see again<br \/>\nSix brutal months have passed away<br \/>\nOn the cold Kam-chat-ka sea<br \/>\nBut now we\u2019re bound from the Arctic ground<br \/>\nRolling down to Old Maui<\/p>\n<p>CH<\/p>\n<p>Once more we sail the Northerly gale<br \/>\nGoing towards our Island home<br \/>\nOur mainmast sprung, our whaling done<br \/>\nWe ain\u2019t got far to roam<br \/>\nOur <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Studding_sail\">stuns\u2019l booms<\/a> is carried away<br \/>\nWhat care we for that sound<br \/>\nA living gale is after us<br \/>\nThank God we\u2019re homeward bound<\/p>\n<p>CH<\/p>\n<p>How soft the breeze through the island trees<br \/>\nNow the ice is far astern<br \/>\nThem native maids, them tropical glades<br \/>\nIs awaiting our return<br \/>\nEven now their big, round eyes look out<br \/>\nHoping some fine thing to see<br \/>\nOur baggy sails running \u2018fore the gales<br \/>\nRolling down to Old Maui<\/p>\n<p>CH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Rolling Down To Old Maui &#8211; Click To Play This is a Pacific whaling song. Most whaling songs I know are Atlantic based, sailing to Iceland and Greenland whale fisheries. This is the story of a ship based in Maui that sailed to the Kamchatka_Peninsula where there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rolling Down To Old Maui&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8757,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}