{"id":9637,"date":"2021-03-13T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=9637"},"modified":"2024-03-16T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:49:05","slug":"chillingowullabadorie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/chillingowullabadorie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chillingowullabadorie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Robinson Crusoe
Sinbad the Sailor
Sindbad the Sailor<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>c1867<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Arthur Lloyd<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN4712<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Arthur Lloyd<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Bowling, Harry; USA : California; 1928
American sailormen; USA; no date<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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From monologues.co.uk<\/a><\/strong>\n\nJust like Sindbad the Sailor,\nOr Robinson Crusoe,\nI left, my native land, in search\nOf wonders I would go;\nI went out as a sailor,\nI come back as you see,\nA mixture of an Indian,\nA Turk and Chimpanzee.\n\nJamsethee, ma jabajehoy,\nJabbery Dobie Porie,\nIkey, Pikey, Sikey, Crikey,\nChillingowullabadorie.<\/em>\n\nWe'd been to sea a fortnight,\nA dreadful storm arosed;\nUpon an island I was thrown\nTo wind and rain exposed:\nBy savages surrounded,\nIt was their island home,\nThey addressed me in a language\nDecidedly their own.\n\nI expected from these savages,\nLess peace than kicks and blows;\nThey'd a funny dress, in fact they'd not\nA single stitch of clothes.\nThey tore my things, from off my back,\nMy hair from out the roots,\nThey left me with a waistcoat,\nA hat and pair of boots.\n <\/strong>\nWhen they'd got all my clothing,\nThinks I, what next they'll do;\nThey brought their paint and painted me,\nWith colours red and blue:\nAnd so that was my costume;\nA waistcoat for my clothes,\nStriped red and blue, a hat and boots\nAnd a ring stuck through my nose.\n <\/strong>\nFor five years in that costume,\nI roamed about the land;\nTo a damsel of the Royal-blood,\nThey made me give my hand.\nAnd there were great rejoicings\nUpon the wedding day,\nAnd we've got two pairs of black kids\nMy wife has taught to say.\n <\/strong>\nOne day a ship appeared in sight,\nI'd scarce believe it true;\nTo reach the ship I stole a boat,\nAnd paddled my own canoe.\nBut now I'm back in England,\nThe country I adore;\nI'll take good care to stick to it;\nAnd never leave it more.<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
A comic song written, composed and performed by the prolific  Arthur Lloyd<\/a>, which was first published and widely advertised in early 1867, for example:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mar. 31, 1867; The Era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The routine racism of the song lyric is underlined by the sheet music which depicts Lloyd with a ring through his nose.The original sheet music is available on the excellent Arthur Lloyd site<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aside from this sheet music, the song does not seem to have survived in many publications – only one example is listed on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. In addition it was published over 20 years later in America as Jamsetjhee <\/em>in Wehman’s Collection of 96 songs <\/em>No.22 (1889).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite its absence in printed sources, reports in 19th-century British newspapers suggest that it was adopted enthusiastically by amateur singers. It regularly crops up in reports of amateur concerts from late 1867-1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In US it passed into traditional singing as a seasong\/shanty, collected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n