Rolling Down the Bay to Juliana
This halyard shanty is also known as Emma Emma. A.L. Lloyd, Johnny Collins and The Watersons have all recorded it. Lloyd commented , on an album note: “This shanty is primitive in structure, a litany-like one liner, with a chorus on a fine descending slope. Ted Howard, a pillar of the Barry Riggers, a club of old time sailing ship men, recorded this for us shortly before his death in 1954. “Pull on the end of Juliana,†says Tedâ€..
Rolling Down the Bay to Juliana
Emma, Emma let me be
Rolling down the bay to Julianna
Oh Miss Emma don't you cry
Rolling down the bay to Julianna
Send Miss Emma to the crow
Wish I had that girl in tow
Windard girls are hard to beat
Haul boys on your ol mainsheeet
Oh the dawning of the day
Haul away & get your pay
Haul boys when she takes a roll
Shake an break her blast your soul
Sweat that yard the mate did say
One more pull & then belay