Lost track of this thread

Never heard of the Sewing Shanty before.

I was at a "Medieval Faire" well over 10 years ago where the guy working the CD player kept playing a certain June Tabor (I think) CD with a lot of "Medieval Feel" Songs and it had this damn song on it about steamships! It got to be a running joke among some of us about never having heard of "Medieval Steamships"!

I wanted to do a parody along the lines of "Hang out the washing on the siegfried line", but it wouldn't happen.

About 10 years later I was doing my washing at a laundramat, and the first verse wrote itself. The next day, the rest of the song appeared in about an hour and a half.

But it got out of control and ended up as a little different and much less humourous than I had intended.

Yes. It can be done to the Cyril Tawney Tune.... same rhythm pattern you see.

Robin