The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85565   Message #1585927
Posted By: GUEST
19-Oct-05 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Just as the Tide Was Flowing (Carthy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Just as the Tide was Flowing
There's a version in Marrow bones, collected from WALTER diment in dorset in 1906 thats a nice version but I can't remember if it's the version Eliza does, her CD is at my other house.
The last verse says:-
                   We both shook hands and off we steer
                   Jack Tar drinks rum and brandy
                   To keep his shipmates in good cheer
                   The lady's gold is handy
                   And along with some other pretty maid I will go
                   To a Public house where the Brandy do flow
                   Success to the maid that will do so
                   Just as the tide is a-flowing

A little different than the version I sing tho' I can't remember where I got my version, probably from a recording of a source singer but then Eliza usually gets it from the source too.
Good Luck
M