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Thread #39326 Message #2375906
Posted By: GUEST,R M Chamberlain (Bonita, California)
27-Jun-08 - 07:35 PM
Thread Name: ADD: On the Good Ship Yacki-Hicki-Doo-La
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: On the Good Ship Yacki-Hicki-Doo-La
I was born in 1920 and traveled from Virginia, USA to London, England three times (alternate years) on the Aquitania and Mauritania to visit my grandmother an two aunts (staying a year each time). I remember,as a child of 5 years of age (1925), being taken to a London theater where I heard the Good Ship Y H Doola sung on stage by a man wearing a pirates cocked hat. Through the years I remembered part of the first verse and all of the chorus but not the whole song. Today, June 26, 2008, I finally found all the verses. When I heard it first the phrase girl is mine was prize is mine and no pirate ere was cooler was (cruela).