The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63286   Message #1026689
Posted By: Anglo
30-Sep-03 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: Maritime term 'Mother Carey'
Subject: RE: Maritime term 'Mother Carey'
MCP's reference is to Peter's setting of Kipling's "Anchor Song," (which Tom Lewis has also recorded, as have many others such as …well, modesty forbids. :-)

The line is :

And we're off to Mother Carey
(Walk her down to Mother Carey!)
Oh, we're bound for Mother Carey where she feeds her chicks at sea!

Anglo