190 - Blow Boys Blow (odd verses) - Halyard Shanty


On page 229 of his book, Stan Hugill prints odd verses, they have been used, been sung by shantymen on various decks of sailing ships, so I do not see any reason to forget those verses and leave them unused. This is the reason why I cannot omit them, and I will be over the moon to sing them as a halyard shanty way as previous full versions of this shanty from the book.
This was a shanty in which the singer often repeated the solo lines, to string out on a long haul.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 228, 229).


Blow Boys Blow (odd verses)


Blow,me boys, an' blow tergether,
   - BLOW, boys, BLOW!
Blow,me boys for better waether.
   - BLOW, me bully boys, BLOW!

                        *2*
Blow, boys, blow, the cook's drawin' water,
A bob for the cook an' a cheer for his daughter.

                        *3*
She files aloft the stripes an' stars,
She has cotton canvas an' pitchpine spars.

                        *4*
A yankee ship came down the river,
There's the style to make ye shiver.

                        *5*
Blow, me boys, we've come to cheer yer.
Blow, me boys, we've come to cheer yer.

                        *6*
Another pull, ho, rock an' shake 'er.
For go she must an' go we'll make 'er.

                        *7*
I though I heard the Old Man say
Another pull an' then belay.