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GUEST,Julia L Origins: Off She Goes (38) RE: Origins: Off She Goes 24 Sep 22

This
Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the Seven Seas p7
from
Landsman Hay Memoirs of Robert Hay 1789-1847 (ed. M. D. Hay, Rupert Hart-Davies. 1953)

Sailing of H.M.S. Culloden towards the East Indies July 1804
“Are you ready there, forward?”
“All Ready, Sir.”
“Heave away. What kind of drawling tune is that, you Fifer? Strike up Off She Goes or Drops of Brandy! Aye, that is the tune. Keep step there, all of ye, and stamp-and-go. Light round the messenger there, aft, hand forward the nippers, you boys.”

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