Let the Bullgine Run

Roger McGuinn

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Released May 14, 2009
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The term bullgine was derisive shipboard slang for an engine. Sailors didn't like them much, and many still don't today. I recorded this song on the album 'Judy Collins 3' on Elektra Records in 1963. This is a slightly different version, but my banjo part is pretty close to the one I played on Judy's record. This is a rollicking halliards chantey. The Margot Evans was a packet ship, one of the first vessels to guarantee delivery of its mail packets across the Atlantic in a specified amount of time.
Lyrics and chords available from Folk Den Project.

Genre Folk
Instrumental No
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