The US Navy & Merchant Marine end flogging= 9/28/1850
He was a New York tailor
Ranzo, boys, Ranzo!
Shanghai'd aboard a whaler
Ranzo, me boys, Ranzo!
They gave him lashes thirty
Because he was so dirty.
They gave him lashes twenty
That's twenty more than plenty
Ranzo nearly fainted
When his back with oil was painted
"Reuben Ranzo," a long-drag shanty.
Far as I've found, USian songs dealing with flogging seem pretty rare compared to a fairly large number of British/Australian ones that do deal with it. The DigTrad version of this is a particularly good one.
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