{"id":532,"date":"2013-07-18T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=532"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:32:15","slug":"rolling-down-the-river","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=532","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Down The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ROLLING DOWN THE RIVER<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Written by Jack Forbes.\u00a0 Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/bobwalser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Walser <\/a>for the lyrics and for<br \/>\nfirst bringing it to our attention!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6017\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"wp-image-6017 \" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TEU-Sea-Can.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A &#8220;TEU&#8221;, in the US commonly AKA a &#8220;Sea Can&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I once was a rigger and I worked like hell<br \/>\n<strong><i>Rolling up, rolling down!<\/i><\/strong><br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m a sailor with the old CL.<br \/>\n<strong><i>And go rolling down the river!<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\n<strong><i>Rolling up, rolling down,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll all get drunk in Tilbury town,<br \/>\nTwenty-four hours we&#8217;ll turn around<br \/>\nAnd go rolling down the river<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now the work is good and the wages fine<br \/>\nWhen you make a trip in a container line.<\/p>\n<p>Now the cargo comes in TEUs<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a twenty-foot box, boys, full of booze.<\/p>\n<p>When first I saw a TEU<br \/>\nI wondered where they put the crew.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a Tilbury girl called Kettle Jane.<br \/>\nCause she&#8217;s on the boil then she&#8217;s off again.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got a friend called Teapot Anne<br \/>\nWhen she&#8217;s well-brewed she likes\u00a0a man.<\/p>\n<p>Them Tilbury girls go round in pairs<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll never catch them unawares.<\/p>\n<p>But at the dockyard gate when the work is done<br \/>\nYou can pick them up boys one by one.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re the boys to sail &#8217;em through<br \/>\nTo hell with the channel and the TEUs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROLLING DOWN THE RIVER Written by Jack Forbes.\u00a0 Thanks to Bob Walser for the lyrics and for first bringing it to our attention! &nbsp; I once was a rigger and I worked like hell Rolling up, rolling down! And now I&#8217;m a sailor with the old CL. And go rolling down the river! Chorus: Rolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-532","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/532\/revisions\/6019"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}