“Rise Me Up from Down Below”

Description

Shanty, with chorus "Whiskey-oh, Johnny-oh! Oh, rise me up from down below, down below, oh, oh, oh oh! Up aloft this yard must go, John! Rise me up from down below!" The verses describe "the world down below," where the "fires do roar," etc.

Supplemental text

Rise Me Up from Down Below
  Partial text(s)

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From William Main Doerflinger, Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman,
revised edition (1972), p. 47. From the singing of Captain James
P. Barker of Brooklyn, NY.

Oh, I come from the world below.
That is where the cocks do crow.
  Whiskey, oh, Johnny, oh!
Oh, rise me up from down below,
Down below oh oh oh oh!
Up aloft this yard must go, John
Rise me up from down below!

(1 additional stanza)

Cross references

• cf. "Whiskey Johnny" (identical chorus, different verses celebrating whiskey)

References

1. Doerflinger, p. 47, "Rise Me Up from Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Hugill, pp. 281-282, "Rise Me Up From Down Below" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, p. 207]
3. ST Doe047 (Partial)
4. Roud #9440
5. BI, Doe047