The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91839 Message #1749591
Posted By: Severn
29-May-06 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: the seed boat's a comin'? / Shrimp Boats
Subject: RE: "Ahoy Cap'n! I seed a boat's a-comin'!"
Is "Seed Shanties" the past tense? (if not-sow what?)
"Thar she grows! Sprouting off the starboard bow!", he wailed....
Or are they bringing much needed seed for reseeding hairlines, seeding territories by treaty,ex-seeding some limit or being de-seedful in planting-rumors of some other manor?...
Or is it Dick Greenhaus in his Seedy Boat with affordable pleasures for us all?...
Or are they related to the PIT songs the miners sing? Just what ARE we pitted against here? We're more to be pitted than scolded, I guess....
"You haul sixteen stones, and whaddya get?....." (I know that if you cut a pitman in two, you get a miner-in-fraction)
Maybe the song's descended from the old Brittish Nautical Ballad "Prawn Packets Are 'Proachin"", but the Digital Tradition has no sign of it, for some reason. Try the Digital Ex-tradition, which's their rubbish bin/"has bin".