I'm sorry that I posted Jack Radcliffe to the thread about warnings about drink; it seems to me that Jack lived a good single man's life and it should be posted here. Had he not been forced by circumstances to seek a whaling life I'm sure he'd have stuck with the rum and the whores and risked losing the odd pair of trousers.

Bill, there is no such thing as a manly group where there is not the smell of tobacco. If you wish, you may buy decent Cubans as I do, but cigars are required. What are you to do when you are alone and drunk in bed, if you don't have a cigar handy?

Dick, it wasn't me who started this segregation of the sexes, of which I highly disapprove, but since it has been started we should finish it and get some songs posted. I know lots of women's songs but I have no business posting in that thread. I was well enough raised to stay away from where I'm not wanted.

Akiba, is this the same song that has the line "cigareets, whisky, wild women"? You sing this at home to children? I approve of this form of family life. It is good that that young boys are early trained in the old manly songs.

Alan of Oz, guys could sing similar lyrics. It works both ways. Real guys don't brag, because they couldn't care less what is said about them. Bragging is the work of boys, who drink hard lemonade and listen to hip hop.

Anyway, I post the only lyric of Bachelor's Hall that I can remember. It isn't in the database so I hope to jog the memory of one of you who can remember the whole song.

Bachelor's Hall, its always the best Be you sick drunk or sober, it's always the best No wife for to scold you, no children to bawl, O happy's the man who keeps Batchelor's Hall. And it's oh, laddie-O.