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8. Santy Anna. (WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN.) [Music illustration: 1. Oh Santy Anna won the day. Way-Ah, me Santy Anna. Oh Santy Anna won the day. All on the plains of Mexico.] 2. He beat the Prooshans fairly. Way-Ah, _etc._ And whacked the British nearly. All on, _etc._ 3. He was a rorty gineral; A rorty snorty gineral. 4. They took him out and shoet him. Oh when shall we forget him. 5. Oh Santy Anna won the day And Gin'ral Taylor run away. 9. Shenandoah.[2] (WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN.) [Footnote 2: The small notes in the piano part are to be played when there is no violin.] [Music illustration: 1. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you. Away you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you. Away, I'm bound to go 'Cross the wide Missouri.] 2. Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter. (_twice_) 3. 'Tis seven long years since last I see thee. (_twice_) 4. Oh Shenandoah, I took a notion To sail across the stormy ocean. 5. Oh Shenandoah, I'm bound to leave you. Oh Shenandoah, I'll not deceive you. 6. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you. (_twice_) 10. Stormalong John. (WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN.) [Music illustration: 1. Oh poor old Stormy's dead and gone. Storm along boys, Storm along. Oh poor old Stormy's dead and gone. Ah-ha, come along, get along, Stormy along John.] 2. I dug his grave [1/8]with [1/8]a silver spade. (_twice_) 3. I lower'd him down [1/8]with [1/8]a golden chain. (_twice_) 4. I [1/8 1/8]carried [1/8]him [1/8]away to Mobile Bay. (_twice_) 5. Oh poor old Stormy's dead and gone. (_twice_) 11. The Hog's-eye Man. (WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN.) [Music illustration: 1. Oh the hog's-eye man is the man for me, He were raised way down in Tennessee. Oh hog's eye, oh. Row the boat ashore for the hog's-eye. Steady on a jig with a hog's-eye oh, She wants the hog's-eye man.] 2. Oh who's been here while I've been gone? Soeme big buck [1/16 1/16]nigger, with his sea boots on?[3] 3. Oh bring me down my riding cane, For I'm off to see my darling Jane. 4. Oh [1/16 1/16]Jenny's [1/16]in [1/16]the [1/8 1/16]garden a-picking peas, And her [1/16 1/16]golden hair's [1/16 1/16]hanging down to her knees. 5. Oh a hog's-eye ship, and a hog's-eye crew, And a hog's-eye mate, and a skipper too. [Footnote 3: This verse was sometimes sung:-- "Now where have
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