The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124423   Message #2748609
Posted By: autoharper
20-Oct-09 - 08:04 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away
Subject: RE: Origins: Pull away, my boys, pull away
"Sailors were so accustomed to singing out when there was a pull to be made, that I have actually heard an old sailor give a 'Yip-Ho-Hip' when pulling on his sea boots…"
        -Frederic Pease Harlow _Chanteying Aboard American Ships_
         (Harlow went to sea in 1870)

-Adam Miller