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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Flash Company Date: 10 Nov 06 - 06:03 AM Can't remember where I got this one from, but I know I sang it a time or two, I had the first line as:- Once I was like any man who stays at home at ease.... And I used to change the profession of the 'lost love'to fit my surroundings:- Twas not her wealth and property that stole me heart away, She's a bouncer at a folk club for very little pay. or on one occasion:- She's a scrubber at a knocking shop for three and six a day FC |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Charley Noble Date: 10 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM FC- "She's a bouncer at a folk club for very little pay." I like that line! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST,thurg Date: 10 Nov 06 - 09:11 PM Doesn't sound like the toughest line of work though - not like being a bouncer in, say, a biker bar ... |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Joe Offer Date: 30 May 10 - 12:35 AM Thanks to Artful Codger, MIDI added for Harry Clifton's "On Board the Kangaroo." Click to play |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST,shipcmo Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:08 AM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Charley Noble Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:53 AM I wonder how much singers got for "product placement" in their songs. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: MartinRyan Date: 22 Nov 11 - 06:11 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Phil Edwards Date: 16 Apr 12 - 01:00 PM I've just recorded this for 52 Folk Songs: On board the 'Kangaroo' My source was Tony Rose's version, which was a generation or so away from the original and had lost the trade names. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Steve Gardham Date: 16 Apr 12 - 01:47 PM There's a pristine copy of the original sheet music for £20 down Cecil Court back of Leicester Square tube station. Can't remember the name of the shop but it specialises in sheet music. As you go into the shop the sheet music is flat on shelves under a counter on your left. I left this copy on the top of a pile a couple of weeks back. Needless to say I can't afford it or I'd have got it. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Greg B Date: 16 Apr 12 - 09:23 PM Oh, Steve, if "Cruelty to Yanks" were only a crime, you'd be up in the Old Bailey in a trice. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Steve Gardham Date: 17 Apr 12 - 03:14 PM Greg, I could easily find the details of the shop and you could email them and pay by PayPal? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Steve Gardham Date: 17 Apr 12 - 04:14 PM Travis and Emery is the name of the shop. They have a website. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: clueless don Date: 18 Apr 12 - 08:48 AM I know this song from the Planxty version. This is how I have always interpreted it (unencumbered by documentation or other facts!): This fellow returns home, having been at sea longer than he originally planned, and finds that his true love has married another (specifically the smart young man who drives the van.) Broken-hearted, he finds another love - a "China Hottentot". I interpret this as a "foreign lady", as mentioned in previous posts, not as opium or other drugs. It is this "China Hottentot" whose age is two score, and who is a washer in the laundry for one-and-nine a day. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! Don |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Phil Edwards Date: 18 Apr 12 - 02:19 PM Doesn't work - the laundry references run right through, to the point in the last verse where he says farewell to patent starch (etc)... and hello to "some Chinese hottentot". |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: The Sandman Date: 18 Apr 12 - 03:45 PM the song was collected in the fifties from elizabeth cronin of macroom by seamus ennis |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST,Tilly Date: 18 Jun 16 - 04:52 PM Clueless Don, It definitely depends on the version you hear. The version I've heard is Bram Taylor's from his album 'Bide Awhile,' which has the verses in an order that leads me to the same conclusion as you. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST,bthebert Date: 09 Oct 21 - 08:56 AM Harry Clifton (1824-1872) The earliest surviving sheet music was published in 1865, words credited to Harry Clifton and music to John Candy, and published in 1856. http://folksongandmusichall.com/index.php/on-board-o-the-kangaroo/ https://www.contemplator.com/sea/kangaroo.html |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST,bthebert Date: 09 Oct 21 - 09:17 AM At first I thought the verse: "To a fine young man that drives a van for Chapman Son & Co.” meant it had to be a 20th Century song, but then I looked up Chapman Son and Co. and found out they have been around since the 18th c. I also looked up the origin of "Van" and found out in the late 19th century, when it was written, Van was a common shortening of "Caravan," which also meant "covered horse-drawn wagon" dates from the early 19th century. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: The Sandman Date: 11 Oct 21 - 05:50 AM a tutorial on how to accompany on English concertina if anyone is intersted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlKZphms-Fo |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: Steve Gardham Date: 11 Oct 21 - 09:45 AM Mick McGarry of Spare Hands sings this Clifton song. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: gillymor Date: 11 Oct 21 - 10:27 AM I fell for this song since I first heard the Planxty intro on After the Break and still sing it. I've always assumed, for no good reason, that China Hottentot, or Chinese Hottentot in the Nick Jones version, referred to opium. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Good Ship Kangaroo From: GUEST Date: 11 Oct 21 - 05:45 PM Dolly Blue; In 1890 Johannes Eggestorff whose father had set up an Ultramarine blue pigment factory in Hull for James Reckitt and Son acquired the vacant Backbarrow cotton mill site including the mill and all the accommodation for workers, and started to manufacture ultramarine blue powder the under the name of the Lancashire Ultramarine Company, it became so successful that the company was taken over in 1928 by Reckitt and Colman Ltd. The factory closed in 1982 not because of lack of business but because the factory could not meet the required environmental standards, strict control of waste water and the chimneys act designed to stop air pollution. The main factory building is now the luxurious four star Whitewater Hotel which has on display in its grounds examples of machinery and inside smaller items are tastefully displayed. When you drove through Backbarrow - near Ulverston in Cumbria - the site always stood out because the walls of the mill and the banks of the River Leven were stained bright blue. |
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