Roll, Alabama, Roll
Traditional
- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Publication date
- 1925
- Language
- English
- Comments
- [Roud 4710, Ballad Index Doe035, trad.]. Traditional halyard (i.e. rope-hauling) shanty. It tells the true story of the sinking of the Mersey-built Confederate sloop-of-war CSS Alabama by the Yankee USS Kearsarge on 19 June 1864 just outside of Cherbourg harbour.
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