{"id":553,"date":"2010-11-02T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"rollin-down-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/rollin-down-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollin’ Down the River"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jack Forbes<\/h5>\n

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 song!<\/p>\n

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  1. I once was a rigger and I worked like Hell
    \nRollin’ up, rollin’ down
    \nBut now I’m a sailor with the OCL
    \nRollin’ down the river.Chorus
    \n<\/em>Rollin’ up, rollin’ down
    \nWe’ll all get drunk in Tilbury town
    \nIn twenty-four hours we’ll turn around and go
    \nRollin’ down the river.<\/li>\n
  2. The cargo comes in TEUs
    \nThat’s a twenty-foot box, boys, full of booze.<\/li>\n
  3. When first I saw a TEU
    \nI wondered where they put the crew.<\/li>\n
  4. There’s a Tilbury girl called Kettle Jane
    \nFirst she’s on the boil then she’s off again.<\/li>\n
  5. She’s got a friend called Teapot Ann
    \nWhen she’s well brewed she’ll take a man to go . . .<\/li>\n
  6. The Tilbury girls go round in pairs
    \nYou’ll never catch them unawares.<\/li>\n
  7. But at the dockyard gate when the work is done
    \nYou can pick ’em up, boys, one by one and go . . .<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}