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John M. Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey) (30) Lyr Add: 'Every Good Ship Has A Mainmast' shanty 18 Apr 06


From folktrax:

EVERY GOOD SHIP - "has a mainmast, a stiff standing
stick" etc "Every maid likes a young man with a SS Prick"
Ch: "Slack away your reef and tackle - sheets they are jammed" -
Bawdy Sea Shantey - HUGILL SSS 1961 p503 - ED&S
mag 41/1 1979 p18 note by Mike Yates -- DOERFLINGER
1951 p165 "Let go your reef & tackle" (ch only) - see "HOIST
AWAY YOUR TOPSAIL" in McCOLL/SEEGER Ben
Bright p14 ("All ships have a mainsail")


From the Gordon "Inferno" Collection:
365 November 10, 1924

Every ship has a capstan, has a capstan, has a capstan,
Every good ship has a capstan and a capstan has pawls
And every young girl likes a young man
With a big pair of balls.
Sheet out your main t'gan't'sail, your main t'gan't' sail,
your main t'gan't' sail,
Sheet out your main topgallant sail and let the good ship go free,
(request)

J. N. West
I assume that the "request" items in the "Inferno" are fragments of songs of which the full song is being requested.


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