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Oh My Rolling River Shenandoah
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The whalermen of Saint Vincent sang this style of Shenandoah. It's striking for its re-interpretation of the Missouri (River) as misery. The chanty becomes a lament focused on how long it has been since the men have caught a whale. • In Abrahams' 1974 book, based on 1966 work with the Vincentian men, the author explains that there are two styles of singing the chanty. One, not emphasized here, was sung when the men returned home with a catch, and it emphasized moments in the hunt. It also emphasizes the seven long years, as mentioned, in terms of a dry spell in catching a whale. Something of that sort of style can be heard in this video of the Barouallie Whalers: • • Barrouallie Whalers - Whaleboat Demo,... (Start 4:58) • The other style, emphasized presently, has more of the original Sally Brown or Shenandoah theme to it. Indeed, it hammers home that connection between the two characters even more. The name in the song, at least as Abrahams transcribed it, is Salambó. The men would seem to probably know Sally Brown (though there is no record of these particular men singing that chanty?), so it is interesting they'd give such a form. Usually Sally is a bright mulatta, but they have it as *white* mulatta. Hmm, maybe they *didn't know the typical Sally.
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