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Poor Lucy Anna

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The song I'm Gwine Ober de Mountain (I'm Going over the Mountain) is credited to Daniel Emmett, a prominent blackface minstrel songwriter and performer. Like many popular songs, it seems to have found its way into use during dock- and ship-work. The rhyming couplets have been separated to allow for the typical shanty call-and-response. Many more verses can be found for this song, and additional verses would be easily improvised, making the song suitable for sustained work at a capstan or windlass.

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Oh the mountens so high and de ribbers so wide
Ch: Poor Lucy Anna!
De mountens so high an' de ribbers so wide
Ch: Ise just gwine ober de mounten!

From Songs of Sea Labour by Frank T. Bullen & W. F. Arnold (1914)

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Heaving shanty, Capstan shanty, Windlass shanty

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