Johnson Girls

From the crew of The Boys of Mayport Florida The recording from which this derives was made at sea by Robert Cornwall and Robert Cook on July 2nd, 1941. It is held at the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, AFS 3891. Notes in…

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Rollin’ Down the River

By Jack Forbes I head Jack sing this at the Hoy at Anchor folk club in Leigh on Sea, Essex. It reflects the workings of modern container shipping in the Thames estuary. OCL is the ‘Overseas Container Line’ and a TEU is a ‘Twenty foot Equivalent Unit’ – a container. Thanks, Jack, for a great…

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