The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #128220 Message #2874194
Posted By: Lighter
28-Mar-10 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: Lyr Add: TALLY-I-O
Steve, the retired seaman James Wright sang the following for James W. Carpenter about 1928. The recording is awful and what's in brackets is solely my conjecture:
TALLY-I-O
Tally-I-O was a jolly old soul,
Tally-I-O! Tally-I-O!
Tally-I-O was a jolly old soul,
Come tally-I-O, you know!
What should I do with my rum, Tally-O?
Tally-I-O! Tally-I-O!
What should I do with my rum, Tally-O?
And sing tally-I-O, you know!
We'll tell [?them we're sober] O Tally-O!
Tally-I-O! Tally-I-O!
We'll tell [?them we're sober], O Tally-O!
And sing tally-I-O, you know!
Tally-I-O was a [?drunken] old soul,
Tally-I-O! Tally-I-O!
Tally-I-O was a [?drunken] old soul,
And sing tally-I-O, you know!
I think I posted this earlier, but it doesn't hurt to reprise it here.