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Jack Horntip	Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey) (39)	RE: Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey)	26 Apr 25
Every ship has a cabin Every cabin has doors Every sailor likes a nice girl With nice pretty drawers. Lower away your main t'gallant sail Lower away your main t'gallant sail You son of a whore. "Every verse takes another part of the ship and a catholic taste in adjectives.--A fragment collected by a friend of mine in the dockyard end of London. The tune of the shanty was a variant of the German student song, 'Gradaus den Wirtzhaus'." E. Anderson c1927. The Gordon Inferno Collection. Text #3729. Notable for naming a tune. See here: https://archive.org/details/1917gordoninfernocollection/page/n172/mode/1up

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