Round the Bay of Mexico
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.242.A3
Original Tape ID
Summary
A shanty that derives from the economic 'war' between two Liverpool shipping lines:
Around the Bay of Mexico,
[Refrain:] Hey, Susianna!
O, Mexico is the place I belong in.
[Refrain:] Round the Bay of Mexico.
[Likewise:]
Them Liverpool girls they love me so ...
Because I don't tell 'em all I know ...
Them Liverpool girls ain't got no comb ...
They comb their hair with a kipper backbone ...
When I was a young girl in my prime ...
I knocked them pretty boys two at a time ...
Item Notes
4 verses (couplets with interlinear refrain).
See:
'Folk Song USA' (A. Lomax, 1947) pp. 136-137
'Folk Songs of North America' (A. Lomax, 1960) p. 54
'Sam Henry's Songs of the People' (G. Huntington, 1990) pp. 96-97
'Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman' (W. M. Doerflinger, 1972) pp. 78-80
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good