Rock and roll singin' in 1865

[Paul]

I have a wisp of a memory of  a comic folk singer doing riffs on SH vs
CH /anties, Smother Bros. perhaps?

Wilson Gray wrote:
> "Sea _shanty_"? I grew up under the impression that the preferred
> spelling was "chanty." The Random House DEL, c1971, however, gives
> "chantey(!)" as the preferred spelling, followed by "chanty,
> shantey(!), shanty."
>
> Everything changes over time, I reckon.
>
> -Wilson
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  Much can we learn from the magic of birdsong:
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>>   1865  New Orleans Times (Feb. 27)  3 [rptd. from All the Year Round]: This sent the parrot's association to sea and she...sang with a tenderness and fair-weather-after-a-storm sweetness:
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>>   "Rock and roll me over, one more day,
>>   One more day, my darling, one more day;
>>   Oh, rock and roll me over,
>>   One more day."
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>>   Aficionados will recognize the song as a sea shanty called "One More Day."   "Rock and roll me over" appears in the chorus of every known version.
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>>   JL
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