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Mick O'Farrell Origins: good ship ragamuffin? / Captain Nipper (37) Origins: good ship ragamuffin 12 Jan 04


I'm trying to find a recorded version of a song I've heard sung live. It's sung at a fast tempo, so the words are hard to decipher but I think some of them are as follows : -

"And the wind began to blow,
and the ship began to roll,
and the devil of a hurricane did blow, hi, ho.
It nearly knocked the stuffing
from the good ship Ragamuffin,
and down to the bottom,
she shall go."

P.S. It's not a variation on 'Botany Bay', which also mentions 'The Good Ship Ragamuffin'. As the melody and clearly the words, are very different.


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