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18 Jun 01 - 12:25 PM (#486010) Subject: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcohol From: GUEST,Jerry (MadSigntist@renet.com) I'm desperately searching for lyrics. My grandfather used to sing this little song for my Father. My grandfather died when I was six months old. My father is turning 50 on the 28th. He has lost the lyrics to this song. What I know goes something like this... Ol' Bucket Mouth McGinty (name may be wrong) he was quite a drinkin man... Captain of the steamer they called him Peter Pan... When ol mac was loaded you could hear him call... Save the women save the kids and save the alcohol! Before ol mac would leave the port he'd call his crew aside... as he gave each man his orders his chest would swell with pride... then as he'd dismiss him he'd tell them one and all... throw the cargo overboard, but save the alcohol! CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THE CORRECT LYRICS? I would be forever grateful. |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:35 PM (#486021) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: wysiwyg Well, we'll do some checking, and welcome to Mudcat. Where have you looked so far? ~S~ |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:39 PM (#486024) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST,Jerry I've searched every place I could find on the net. I have had no luck whatsoever. Thank for the help! |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:42 PM (#486028) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Sorcha I found this thread in the forum, but am confused as to whether Bucket Mouth is the same song as Booze Yacht.......I think not, but it's hard to tell. Nothing else on Google. |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:47 PM (#486034) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST,jerry Bucket Mouth McGinty is referenced in the discussion, but I don't believe it is the same as Booze Yacht... thanks though! |
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18 Jun 01 - 12:50 PM (#486039) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: wysiwyg Jerry, do you know about Mudcat membership, and do you know how to find a thread later on when you want to check back? Reason I am asking is, it can take a long time before someone wanders in here who happens to know the piece you want, and spots the request. When you don't get an answer right away, the requestor needs to come back to the the thread and post in it to bounce it back onto the current day's thread list. But as a member you can "trace" the thread-- it's all in the Mudcat FAQ. Or you can just bookmark the thread from your browser and go to it anytime. And if you should find the song anywhere else, I hope you will come back and post it right in this thread. ~S~ |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:06 PM (#486055) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman I am now a member...thanks for the information! |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:10 PM (#486062) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: wysiwyg Yup! Check that FAQ thread... that's where all the really smart information is! PM me any time for help. MOST of us here are pretty nice! *G* ~S~ |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:34 PM (#486094) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman gonna check around some more...wish me luck! |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:45 PM (#486119) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Charley Noble This one's a puzzler; it may be one of those unique family songs that we'll have to reconstruct. Any clues about the tune? |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:47 PM (#486123) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Charley Noble The reference to "Peter Pan" may help dating this one. |
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18 Jun 01 - 01:56 PM (#486142) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Sorcha Nothing at Levy,Bodlean or Duke. |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:00 PM (#486149) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Sorcha Peter Pan first performed in 1904......... |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:07 PM (#486157) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman I certainly appreciate the help folks! The best information I can find is a reference to the song's title. Sorcha found it. it came from:
Subject: RE: Booze Yacht Song - know where to find it I doubt it was a family song... the only clue I have would be that my Grandfather would only sing it when he would be driving his boat. My Father was born in 1952, I am assuming my grandfather knew the song before that. |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:29 PM (#486193) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman My father's parents were in their fifties when they had my dad. This may help with date issues. |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:46 PM (#486204) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST,Allan S. I have the words as soon as I find them I will put them on |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:49 PM (#486207) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman Allan, thank you very much... I can't thank you enough. This will make my dad very happy. |
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18 Jun 01 - 02:52 PM (#486211) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman Who got in touch with Allan S? I would like to thank you! |
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18 Jun 01 - 03:01 PM (#486214) Subject: ADD: Bucket Mouth McGinty^^ From: GUEST,Allan s. BUCKET MOUTH McGINTY Bucketmouth McGinty was quite a drinking man. He was skipper of the schooner they call the Peter Pan. Whenever he got loaded, he would call the men aside CHORUS: Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol. Each time they left the harbor, he would call the crew aside, Give each man his orders—his chest would swell with pride— And then as he'd dismiss them, he'd tell them one and all One day the ship was rolling upon the stormy sea. The waves were getting higher and the wind was making free. McGinty told his crewmen "we're in for quite a squall "I'm going to my cabin and pour myself a drink. I don't give an awful damn if this tub should sink, But if this thing should happen," he added with his drawl, They rushed into his cabin in time to see him go. As they gathered round him, he spoke with words so low: "Just bury me at sea, boys. I hear the angels call." Oh, whiskey got old Mac at last. It finally caused his death. 40 years before the mast without a sober breath. He tripped upon a bottle and perished from the fall. They couldn't save McGinty but they saved the alcohol. McGinty's in the ocean with lots of sea above. The mermaids follow him around, their hearts so full of love. No matter how they smile at him, he can't hear them at all. He just keeps yelling, "ring me out and save the alcohol." Learned from Gene Patten U-Conn 1951 ^^ |
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18 Jun 01 - 03:08 PM (#486224) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST,Allan S. THat last line of the 1st verse should be When ever be got loaded the crew would hear him call Sorry for the typing. Havent learned to use the scanner yet Allan
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18 Jun 01 - 03:08 PM (#486226) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: madman Allan S, Thank you very much! I have been looking for this on and off for over five years now! |
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18 Jun 01 - 03:47 PM (#486260) Subject: Lyr Add:Bucket Mouth McGinty From: Sorcha Just throwing a Lyr Add in the subject box; see Allan S.' post 3 up from this one. Ain't Mudcat grand? |
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18 Jun 01 - 04:17 PM (#486279) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Charley Noble Allan, thanks for the catch. I bet the last line runs: He just keeps yelling "WRING me out and save the alcohol!" ;-) |
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18 Jun 01 - 05:39 PM (#486367) Subject: ADD: Bucketmouth McGuinty, or Save the Alcohol ^^ From: wysiwyg With line breaks:
BUCKETMOUTH McGUINTY |
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18 Jun 01 - 05:57 PM (#486390) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Charley Noble It's those magic fingers again!;-) |
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18 Jun 01 - 05:59 PM (#486392) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Sorcha Hey, sooz, what does the AC mean? If it's posters initials, it should be AS........ |
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18 Jun 01 - 07:55 PM (#486510) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: wysiwyg They mean All Cretinous here (me), that I missed the S and thought it was C, so now I need a clone myself! YOU ask, bes/'bud, I'se embare-assed. ~S~ |
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18 Jun 01 - 08:14 PM (#486521) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Sorcha They're probably tired of me today too; I been reporting all those duplicates!! LOL, ok, I'll go ask 'em. |
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02 Aug 08 - 08:32 AM (#2403565) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST WYSIWYG mentioned the time that could elapse before "...someone wanders in here..." Well, I just "wandered in," and remember that the chorus was not always the same. For example, after the verse that begins: One day the ship was rolling..., I remember the chorus being :"Throw the cargo overboard, but save the alcohol." Another verse that I remember was missing from the WYSIWYG post: At last the storm abated And quiet reigned once more When from McGinty's cabin There came a drunken roar The First Mate saw him stagger, The Bos'n heard him call Pick me up...etc. I also remember the chorus after the verse that begins "We rushed into his cabin" as being: Save the watch and save the chain And save the alcohol.
Thanks. -Joe Offer- |
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03 Aug 08 - 07:35 AM (#2404211) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: GUEST,Dani I suspect you'll enjoy this as well, from our own Annie: thread.cfm?threadid=52897#812178 Dani |
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03 Aug 08 - 07:42 AM (#2404213) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Severn Now, does anybody have the tune? |
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08 Aug 08 - 06:09 PM (#2408856) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Jim Dixon Couple of other threads on this song: Origin: Bucketmouth McGinty (Eugene Gunter) Origins: 'Bucketmouth McGinty 'additional info. |
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08 Aug 08 - 06:26 PM (#2408871) Subject: RE: Help: Throw the cargo overboard save ' alcoho From: Jim Dixon If McGinty was the skipper, wouldn't he be behind the mast instead of before it? Or maybe he was "forty years before the mast" and then he became a captain? How realistic is that? Am I over-analyzing? |
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16 Nov 09 - 02:04 AM (#2766780) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bucketmouth/Bucket Mouth McGinty/McGuinty From: GUEST,happyhunter81 the last line is "save the women and children first , but save the alcohol" |
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06 Dec 09 - 03:09 PM (#2782274) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bucketmouth/Bucket Mouth McGinty/McGu From: GUEST,Shreddermetal_matt1984 I have the 78. I can't remember the artist, but its titled "Save the Alcohol" and its was recorded in the late 30s. |
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07 Dec 09 - 08:52 PM (#2783431) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bucketmouth/Bucket Mouth McGinty/McGuinty From: Jim Dixon Data compiled from various sources: Title: SAVE THE ALCOHOL Artist: Larry Cassidy (Cliffie Stone Orchestra) Media: 78-rpm Record Label: Capitol Catalog Number: 40058 Issued: 1947 Lyricist/Composer(s): Johnny Jones & Gene McCoy |