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Thread #41496   Message #3103867
Posted By: MGM·Lion
27-Feb-11 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: In bed with the captain's daughter
Subject: RE: In bed with the captain's daughter
"Cosher Bailey" ~~ a song about a railway train, & various people associated and their families. A rugby song, surely: is there a shanty version? Can't see what job it would go with. Is there perhaps some confusion with Hob-a-Deri-Dando [or however you spell it], the other Welsh song which springs to all our minds; & in which, as I have already noted above, the "Captain's daughter" line certainly appears?

Before posting this, loth to make a fool of myself, I have checked that "Cosher Bailey" does not appear in the index of Hugill's "Seven Seas", surely the definitive collection.

~Michael~