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17 Jun 20 - 06:31 PM (#4059763) Subject: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: SPB-Cooperator This is a contemporary shanty (from early 90s) telling the plight of greenhand sailors coming to terms with one of the less pleasant aspects of being at sea. OOPS!! JAMBOREE! (Belsey & Trad) Now me lads, be of good cheer, For the open sea will soon draw near Unsteady times ahead, I fear I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Oops jamboree! Oops Jamboree! Oh you sea-sick sailor, falling down behind Oops Jamboree! Oops Jamboree! I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Now the land is out of sight Things ain't as steady as the old rock light I'll feel worse by tomorrow night I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Now that we are outward bound I wish my feet were on dry ground Then I'd be nowhere to be found I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Now we're on the open sea The waters roar; the wind blows free It's back on shore I'd rather be I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Now we're on the ocean wide The ship it rolls from side to side It's down below I long to hide I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Across the raving main we'll go The horizon's moving to and fro I'll be heaving up in an hour or so I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? And when we reach the foreign shore I'll be the first one to the door I never will walk straight no more I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? And when I'm firmly stood on land I'll kiss the ground upon the strand A lubber's life would be right grand I wonder where me sea-legs' gone? Tune: Traditional, words: (c) S P Belsey |
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18 Jun 20 - 01:22 AM (#4059796) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: Dave Hanson Better known as Whip Jamboree or Whoop Jamboree. Dave H |
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18 Jun 20 - 04:45 AM (#4059812) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: Joe Offer But hey, I kinda like the "Oops" version. As a maintenance man and maintainer of a computer network, I learned that it is very important NOT to say "oops" when the boss is around. It doesn't inspire confidence. -Joe- |
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18 Jun 20 - 04:57 AM (#4059815) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: GUEST,crumbly I think the (Liverpool) Spinners popularised it as 'Whip Jamboree' in the sixties folk clubs |
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18 Jun 20 - 05:01 AM (#4059817) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: Dave the Gnome It's OK SPB. If I spotted that it was a parody I am sure many others did :-) |
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18 Jun 20 - 05:19 AM (#4059818) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: SPB-Cooperator Dave, you win this weeks prize (free kudos for 1 month) for reading beyond the subject line. |
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18 Jun 20 - 08:09 AM (#4059846) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: Jim Carroll "'Whip Jamboree' in the sixties folk clubs" They used to sing it with their other disaster song 'The Marco Polo "the ship with the hole in it" Jim |
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18 Jun 20 - 08:34 AM (#4059854) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: GUEST,crumbly danny Kyle had a glasgow parody of the 'Marco Polo' song- instead of 'Marco Polo, the fastest on the Line (?) he sang Renfrew Ferry, the fastest on the Clyde' |
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18 Jun 20 - 11:13 AM (#4059894) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: SPB-Cooperator Joe, Apart from when I was at college, I had no contact with mainframes. Were you ever (un)lucky enough to hear a disk head crash on the old stacked hard disks. Heard that the sound could be pretty spectacular. |
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20 Sep 21 - 04:32 PM (#4120458) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: GUEST,SPB without cookie Laid down the challenge tonight whether this is the only known sea song about sea-sickness. Anyone going to prove me wrong? |
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20 Sep 21 - 05:16 PM (#4120462) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: GUEST,Bob Coltman I believe its recorded career began with A. L. Lloyd's singing on one of his Riverside LPs of Sea Songs, shared with Ewan McColl. Lloyd's title: "Whoop Jamboree." Bob |
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20 Sep 21 - 08:05 PM (#4120475) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: meself Re: sea-sickness. The version of Paddy Lay Back I know has "half the crew a pukin' o'er the ship's side" as they set out on their voyage. |
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21 Sep 21 - 03:33 AM (#4120498) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree! From: r.padgett Certainly an improvement pc wise to the origins of the song ~ er um Ray |