“Hello, Somebody”

Description

Shanty. Characteristic line: "Hello, somebody, hello!" "There's somebody knocking at the garden gate...." "Somebody wants to know my name...."

Supplemental text

Hello, Somebody
  Partial text(s)

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From William Main Doerflinger, Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman,
revised edition (1972), p. 46. From the singing of Captain James
P. Barker of Brooklyn, NY.

  Hello, Somebody, hello!
There's Somebody knocking at the garden gate;
  Hello, Somebody, hello!
There's Somebody knocking at the garden gate;
  Hello, Somebody, hello!

(1 additional stanza)

References

1. Doerflinger, p. 46, "Hello, Somebody" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Hugill, pp. 256-257, "Hello, Somebody!" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 186-187]
3. ST Doe046 (Partial)
4. Roud #9441
5. BI, Doe046