How does fit in with “Rockabilly”?
Here’s one example. The first year that Rose spents the winter in the Newport area, it was tied up in one of the old Jamestown Ferry slips. The Rose didn’t have an engine in those days and I had to wharp the ship from one ferry slip to another because an old “Staten Island” ferryboat was on it’s way from New York to be used as a floating motel and restaurant-bar, and, it needed the machinery in the ferry slip where Rose was. Wharping involves moving a ship by using the capstan to haul on a line attached to the place where you are going. I had no crew to help so I recruited a bunch of High School kids from the drug store they hung out in. I attached a wharp line to the new ferry slip and let the wind and tide take us out into the channel. I neglected to tell the boys that I was going to sing while we operated the capstan. When I started singing a traditional capstan chantey, they started jumping up in the air and yelling “yahoo” and as soon as all the slack was out of the wharp line we
