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Thread #94304   Message #1824719
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
01-Sep-06 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: Stan Hugill - the real words?
Subject: RE: Stan Hugill - the real words?
Hugill gives drunken Sailor as stamp and go, runaway or walkaway shanty.
He says that in big ships with small crews it was mainly used at braces when going about.
In his 1926 book John Sampson writes that it "...was usually sung by all hands as they ran away with the braces when swinging the yards round in tacking ship."
Keith.