O I say my Mammy Dinah, What is the matter? Ch: Sing Sally O; Fol-lol-de-day O hurrah hurrah! Ch: My Mammy Dinah, Sing Sally O; Fol-lol-de-day O have you heard the news to-day? For we are homeward bound.

Roll and Go gives only the first verse of this, and other, “negro shanties”, which seem to have originated in stowing cotton, but proved useful aboard ships as well.

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