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Thread #46594   Message #692205
Posted By: radriano
17-Apr-02 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: Help: Meaning of a few Drunken Sailor verses
Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of a few Drunken Sailor verses
My favourite verse is:
"Nail his scrotum to a stump then push him"

In "Shanties from the Seven Seas" Stan Hugill says that the chorus to this song, "Way, hey, and up she rises" is used because of the inability to write down the "wild yells" of the sailor.