{"id":8211,"date":"2018-01-01T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:43:08","slug":"roll-alabama-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"Roll Alabama Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_Alabama\"><\/a><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Roll_Alabama.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/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\/Roll_Alabama.mp3\"> Roll Alabama Roll &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nCamilla and I will be sailing from Valpara\u00c3\u00adso, Chile to Buenos Aires this month. I thought an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CSS_Alabama\">English halyard sea chantey<\/a> from the 1860&#8217;s would be appropriate. I will be giving lectures on board the Silver Sea Muse. One of those lectures will be about sea chanteys.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief description of the trip from the Silver Sea website:<\/p>\n<p>Voyage to the soaring mountain peaks, and slowly scraping glaciers, of Chile. See poetic Valparaiso sprawling bright colors, colonial architecture and history haphazardly across the hills, before sailing amid the finger-like mountains of the staggering Chilean Fjords. Tour the flicking tail of the continent\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s southernmost tip, before dropping in on the Falkland Islands, Uruguay, and Argentina.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[F] When the Alabama&#8217;s keel was [C] laid<br \/>\n[C]  Roll, [Bb] Alabama, [C] roll!<br \/>\n[F] It was laid in the yards of Jonathan [C] Laird<br \/>\n[Bb]  Oh, [F] roll, [C] Alabama, [F] roll!<\/p>\n<p>It was laid in the yards of Jonathan Laird<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nIt was laid in the town of Birkenhead<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<p>Down Mersey way she sailed and then<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nLiverpool fitted her with guns and men<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<p>Down Mersey way she sail-ed forth<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nTo destroy the commerce of the North<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<p>To Cherbourg harbor she sailed one day<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nTo collect her share of the prize money<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<p>And many a sailor saw his doom<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nWhen the yankee Kearsarge hove in view<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<p>And a shot from the forward pivot that day<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nBlew the Alabama&#8217;s stern away<\/p>\n<p>And off the three-mile limit, in sixty-four<br \/>\nRoll, Alabama, roll!<br \/>\nWell she sank to the bottom of the ocean floor<br \/>\nOh, roll, Alabama, roll!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Roll Alabama Roll &#8211; Click To Play Camilla and I will be sailing from Valpara\u00c3\u00adso, Chile to Buenos Aires this month. I thought an English halyard sea chantey from the 1860&#8217;s would be appropriate. I will be giving lectures on board the Silver Sea Muse. One of those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roll Alabama Roll&#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":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}