“Coal Black Rose”
Description
Halyard shanty, Negro origin. "Oh, me Rosie, Coal Black Rose, Don't ye hear the banjo ping-a-pong-a-pong? Oh, me Rosie, Coal Black Rose." Verses mostly nonsense, with a fair amount of onomatopoeia, i.e. "ping-a-pong-a-pong," "dinging an' a dang," etc.
References
- Hugill, p. 364, "Coal Black Rose" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 274]
- Roud #9128
- BI, Hugi364