The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90153   Message #1706838
Posted By: Bat Goddess
30-Mar-06 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Child-safe Sea Chanties
Subject: RE: Child-safe Sea Chanties
We got in "trouble" at the Nottingham town show a couple years ago for singing "Paddy West" -- "her mate is a bastard, her bos'n's worse" -- ultra-Christian organizers probably noticed the word more than any children in the audience.

Somehow "her mate is the offspring of an unwed mother" doesn't quite hack it.

Laughed about it later with the town tax collector (and fiddle player) as we listed a whole bunch of things that couldn't be sung or played.

Linn