Sea Songs
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http://ingeb.org/songs/ickheff2.mid http://ingeb.org/songs/singandh.html		 The Banks of Sacramento

"The Banks of Sacramento" is very well known here in Germany whereby the verses are generally sung in German and the choruses sung in English! The version I sing is taken from a popular German songbook Lieder, Songs und Gospels 3 which has nice clean sanitised verses incapable of inflaming anybody. As with Rolling Home and My Bonnie lies over the ocean it may be sung several times in a single session. Each time being less musical and more raucous than the last.
To illustrate my point about the innocuousness, the last verse goes:
    "O when we got to the Frisco docks
    The girls were all in their Sunday frocks"
I assume they were just about to go to or had just come from church.
"The Banks of Sacramento" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info Various Artists on "Festival (Die schönsten Seemannslieder)" amazon.com amazon.de