One More Day

from Death and Other Animals by Faustus

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Retired mariner and shanty man John Short sang this to
Cecil Sharp in Watchet, Somerset, on 20th April, 1914, who
published it that year in English Folk Chanteys. Short (1839-
1933), affectionately nicknamed Yankee Jack after his exploits
during the American Civil War, went to sea in in 1853
at the age of 14, retiring from ocean-going voyages in the
1880s due to his wife’s ill health. Alongside duties as Watchet’s
Town Crier, then as commander of the local fire brigade,
he continued to sing from his large repertoire with other
sailors at the harbourside and in concerts. Roud 704.

lyrics

0O8NE MORE DAY
WORDS AND MUSIC TRADITIONAL

I’m bound away to leave you,
Don’t let my parting grieve you.

We‘re homeward bound tomorrow,
I’ll leave you without sorrow.

One more day, Johnny, one more day,
Oh rock and roll me over for one more day.

Hear the Old Man growling,
Hear the mate howling.

Hear the captain pawling,
Hear the pilot bawling.

Hear the gulls cawing,
One more day rolling.

One more day furling,
One more day cursing.

One more day pumping,
One more day bracing.

One more day working,
Oh rock and roll me over.

Come row me to my lover,
The starlight be my cover.

No gales nor heavy weather,
Come rock and roll me over.
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HEAVY WEATHER
MUSIC PAUL SARTIN

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from Death and Other Animals, released October 7, 2016

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