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\par }{\f1\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid745185\charrsid9533632 I once was a rigger and I worked like hell
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\par ROLLING UP, ROLLING DOWN
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\par When you take a trip with a container line
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\par The cargo comes in TEUs
\par That's a twenty foot box, boys, full of booze
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\par When I first saw a TEU
\par I wondered where they put the crew
\par 
\par There's a Tilbury girl named Kettle Jane
\par First she's on the boil then off again
\par 
\par She's got a friend named Teapot Anne
\par When she's well brewed, she'll take a man
\par 
\par Those Tilbury girls go round in pairs
\par You'll never catch them unawares
\par 
\par But at the dockyard gate when the work is done
\par You can pick 'em up, boys, one by one
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\par }{\f1\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9533632\charrsid9533632 (Repeat verse one}{\f1\fs22\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid745185\charrsid9533632 )
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\par I}{\b\f1\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid745185\charrsid9533632 
 wrote and recorded 'Rolling down the River' in 1982 for a radio programme about Tilbury Docks. It has since been used in an Educational Drama production, a Folk Theatre presentation and also as a Morris dance, as well as 
being sung all over the world. It can be heard wherever there are shanty sessions at Folk Festivals and Festivals of the Sea. There is an American version and a Polish version (sung in Polish).
\par Over the years, it seems to have gone through the folk proces
s, changing and acquiring new verses. It has sometimes been credited to an unknown old Tilbury docker, claimed by other writers and accepted in some places as an authentic folk song. It continues to appear, uncredited, on a number of websites.
\par I first sang 'Rolling  Down the River' in front of an audience at the Hoy at Anchor Folk Club early in 1983. Later that year, one of the club's guests, Bob Walser, heard me singing the song and asked me to record it for him. And so the song was passed on.

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