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Alpo Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 There are verses to that song. You're not supposed to just sing the chorus over and over and over. What shall we with a drunken sailor? It's been a long time but I recall: Stick him in the hold till he wakes up sober Shove him in the bunk with the Captain's daughter Throw him overboard and then keelhaul him Ho, hey, and up she rises, early in the mornin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 There are a lot of variations to this song. I remember when I was in the Navy we had this officer that liked to get guys, especially the deck hands, singing old sea shanty’s. The “drunken sailor” shanty got everybody going. It was actually quite cool to be on deck working and then someone would kick off a shanty. Most times just a few guys would sing for a bit but if everyone didn’t get in on the act it died pretty quickly. This was one shanty that did not. I only recall it happening a few times but I did not normally work topside. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Sailor Long version lyrics https://genius.com/The-longest-johns-drunken-sailor-lyrics Short version https://www.metrolyrics.com/drunken-sailor-lyrics-irish-rovers.html Another version https://genius.com/The-irish-rovers-drunken-sailor-lyrics We also made up our own versions after it was known the Captain really didn’t like the line about “the captain’s daughter”. Capt. Ailes was not a liked man but he was respected so that line was dropped. I honestly don’t remember what replaced it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 I like shanties It was on a cold and windy morning in December And all of me money it was spent And where the hell it went I can't remember So down to the shipping office I went Paddy lay back, take in the slack Take a turn around the capston, heave a pawl About ship's stations boys be handy We're bound for Valparaiso round the horn It's a mighty hard life, full of toil and strife, we whalermen undergo But we don't give a damn, when the gale is done, how hard the wind did blow For we're homeward bound, it's a grand old sound, on a good ship taut and free And we won't give a damn when we drink our rum, with the girls of old Maui Rolling down to old Maui me boys, rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic grounds, rolling down to old Maui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 My understand of kissing the captain's daughter.. was being flogged or caned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 I thought that was kissing the Gunner's daughter. They would bend you over a cannon, unlike in the movies where they tied you to the mast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joke 'um Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 31 minutes ago, Alpo said: I thought that was kissing the Gunner's daughter. They would bend you over a cannon, unlike in the movies where they tied you to the mast. Midshipmen and ship's boys were bent over a gun and caned. Essentially, spanked. Midshipmen could also be masted, made to go to a sky sail yard and stay until relieved. Seamen were flogged while lashed vertically. Formally, to a hatch grating (lattice) rigged for the purpose. The flogging was for the benifit of all hands, who were made to witness. Legality and ceremony were a big part of the show. Throwing a flogging together at a mast without all the ceremony would lose much of the impact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 45 minutes ago, Alpo said: I thought that was kissing the Gunner's daughter. They would bend you over a cannon, unlike in the movies where they tied you to the mast. Kissing the Gunner's daughter was reserved for the little kids like ship's boys, powder monkeys and midshipmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Actually the only time I heard the term (actually read the term) was in the Sackett book Ride the River. The old lawyer has gone down to the docks, and three people, seeing an obviously rich old man, decide they're going to mug him. >"If I had the lot of you aboard a ship of mine," Finian said cheerfully, "I'd have you kissing the gunner's daughter! You'd be bent over a starb'rd gun getting fifty good ones on the backside from a Penang lawyer!"< Then he pulled his cane apart and he's standing there with a 3-foot sword, and the muggers decide to try elsewhere. For the curious, a Penang Lawyer. http://canequest.com/penang-lawyer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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