One More Day (song) - Mainsail Café

This shanty is, according to Whall, another "homeward-bounder" typically reserved for the return home. John Short told Cecil Sharp it was always used as a capstan or windlass-shanty, but Bullen and Whall give it as a pulling-shanty, and Tozer as one for pumping.

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Oh, have you heard the news, my Johnny?
Ch: One more day!
We're homeward bound tomorrow
Ch: One more day!
Only one more day, my Johnny
One more day!
Oh, rock and row me over,
One more day!

We're homeward bound to-morrow, Johnny,
We leave you without sorrow.

Can't you hear the old man snarling, Johnny ?
Can't you hear the capstan pawling?

Oh, heave and sight the anchor, Johnny,
Oh, heave and sight the anchor.

I'm bound away to leave you, Johnny,
But I will not deceive you.

From Roll and Go by Joanna Carver Colcord (1924)

Ch: One more day, my Johnny,
One more day
O rock and roll me over
For one more day

There is one thing more that grieves me
Ch: For one more day
There is my poor wife and baby
Ch: For one more day.

I'm bound away to leave you
Ch: For one more day
Don't let my parting grieve you
Ch: For one more day.

From English Folk-Chanteys by Cecil Sharp (1914)

Metadata

DT Index: 4498

Ceremonial, Hauling shanty, Heaving shanty, Capstan shanty, Pump shanty, Windlass shanty

Homeward Bound

Selected recordings:

Songs of the Sea The Norman Luboff Choir

Shanty Time The Jolly Rogers

Bold Reilly Gone Away Danny Spooner

Sea Chanties and Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport Various artists

External links:

Charles Rosher recorded by Grainger (1907)

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