Steve: In this thread only, relevance = search term = stamp and go = Air—“A reg'lar capstan, stamp and go.

Been on the list here since year one but no hits until just lately. So far, so few, it's all capstan work. Obviously, something will have to give before the expression makes it to the Sea Shanty wiki style “stamp & go.”

And one suspects “Sam Spritsail” and “Landsman Hay” might share a branch somewhere on the old family tree.

Small world: Lay's new King here is William IV, aka: The Sailor King. We've chatted about the HRH's mistress Dorothea Jordan 's stage work here: Lyr Add: I Am a Brisk and Sprightly Lad. Jordan & Latour co-published at least one piece as well.