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Thread #159399 Message #3778255
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
12-Mar-16 - 07:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: Drunken Sailor-Dickens question for Gibb
I thought it was "harbour girls" and surely "Round the corner Sally."
John Samson (sailed 1886-1898) says this about Drunken Sailor,
"This was the favourite runaway or stamp and go Shanty.
Unlike the other shanties it required no Soloist, but was usually sung by all hands as they ran away with the braces when swinging the yards round in tacking ship."