"Rolling Down To Rio" | |
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Song | |
Genre | English folk song |
Songwriter(s) | Rudyard Kipling[1] |
"Roll Down to Rio", also known as "The Beginning of the Armadillos", is part of the Just So Songs poetry collection. It was set to music (by Edward German),[2] which has been recorded by Peter Bellamy,[3] Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman,[4] The Young'uns,[5] and Peter Dawson.
Being a well-documented song publicised by Mudcat,[6] and Mainly Norfolk,[7] the song was recorded by Jon Boden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk songs "A Folk Song A Day"[8] and "365 Days Of Folk".[9]