Origins: Saucy Sailor

Subject: Origins: Saucy Sailor
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Mar 24 - 05:13 PM

DT Lyrics:

SAUCY SAILOR

"Come, my fairest, come, my dearest,
And listen unto me;
Will you marry a poor sailor boy,
Who has just come home from the sea?"

"You are ragged, sir, you are dirty,
And smell so strong of tar;
Begone, you dirty sailor boy!
Begone, you Jack of tar!"

"Though I'm ragged, miss, though I'm dirty,
And smell so strong of tar,
I have pockets filled with silver, love,
And gold laid up in store."

Soon as these words were spoken,
Down on her knees she fell,
Saying, "Forgive me, noble sailor!
I love the sailor well."

"I will cross o'er the briny ocean,
Where the meadows grow so green;
But since you refused my offer, miss,
Another shall wear the ring."

"You may cross o'er the briny ocean,
Where the meadows grow so green;
But since I refused your offer, sir,
Another may wear the ring."

DT #415
Laws K38
@courtship @sailor
from Cox, Folk-Songs of the South
recorded by Frankie Armstrong
tune "SAUCYSLR" from English Folk Songs, Sharp
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-Joe-

Subject: RE: Origins: Saucy Sailor
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Mar 24 - 05:24 PM

Saucy Sailor, The (Jack and Jolly Tar II) [Laws K38]

DESCRIPTION: Jack the sailor admits his poverty to a girl, who scorns him and refuses his offer of marriage. He pulls out a handful of money and offers it to her; she instantly changes her mind. But Jack turns the tables; he has no need for a poor country girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1781 (broadside)
KEYWORDS: poverty courting money
FOUND IN: US(Ap,NE,SE) Canada(Mar,Newf) Britain(England(Lond,South,West),Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (17 citations):
Laws K38, "Saucy Sailor, The (Jack and Jolly Tar II)"
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 294-295, "Jack Tar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 461-462, "The Saucy Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune) [AbEd, pp. 343-344]
Sharp-EnglishFolkSongsFromSouthernAppalachians 168, "The Saucy Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-OneHundredEnglishFolksongs 45, "The Saucy Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-TheCrystalSpring 86, "The Saucy Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Reeves-TheEverlastingCircle 115, "The Saucy Sailor Boy" (1 text)
Roud/Bishop-NewPenguinBookOfEnglishFolkSongs #17, "The Saucy Sailor Boy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Greig/Duncan1 49, "The Saucy Sailor" (2 fragments, 2 tunes)
Cox-FolkSongsSouth 123, "The Jack of Tar" ( text)
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #200, "Jack Tar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown-VermontFolkSongsAndBallads, pp. 151-152, "The Tar-ry Sailor" (1 text)
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, p. 25, "Roving Jack Tar" (1 text, 1 tune, composite)
Creighton/Senior-TraditionalSongsOfNovaScotia, pp. 202-203, "Saucy Sailor" (2 texts plus 1 excerpt, 2 tunes)
Peacock, pp. 316-317, "Tarry Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-FolkSongsFromNewfoundland 62, "The Saucy Sailor" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 415, SAUCYSLR* TARSAIL2*
Roud #531
RECORDINGS:
Jim Bennett, "Tarry Sailor" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
Johnny Doughty, "Come My Own One, Come My Fond One" (on Voice02)
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.12(333), "Saucy Sailor Boy," E.M.A. Hodges (London), 1846-1854; also Harding B 11(3429), Firth c.13(252), Firth c.13(253), Firth c.12(331), Harding B 16(244a), Firth b.26(245), Firth c.13(197), "Saucy Sailor Boy"
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Will You Wed with a Tarry Sailor?" [Laws K37] (plot)
cf. "Johnny the Sailor (Green Beds) [Laws K36]" (plot)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Saucy Jack Tar
Jack Tar
I'm to Cross
NOTES [47 words]: Both Greig/Duncan1 fragments are too short to be clearly identified as Laws K38 but the ideas in each brief text are consistent with K38 texts I have seen even if the lines are not in any of those texts. However, they as easily fit (?) "Will You Wed with a Tarry Sailor?" [Laws K37] - BS
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Subject: RE: Origins: Saucy Sailor
From: Reinhard
Date: 04 Mar 24 - 05:35 PM

Origins: Jack Tar / Poor Jack / Saucy Sailor

Subject: RE: Origins: Saucy Sailor
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 05 Mar 24 - 01:37 PM

Good luck with that thread, Joe!??