The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120038   Message #2795502
Posted By: MGM·Lion
24-Dec-09 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: People named in songs
Subject: RE: People named in songs
As for shanties: *Haul away for Rosie, e.g. with Round-the-Corner-Sally et al; & Little Sally Racket has every verse predicated on the name of a sailortown whore ···

Forebitters too - Maggie May &c &c &c

* {Have always btw found it of interest that this one of few shanties mentioned in Moby Dick — when the Puritan owner's wife comes aboard with improving tracts for the crew & the Quaker Captain Peleg attempts some psalmody, the 'hands at the windlass' prefer to 'roar forth a sort of chorus about the girls in Booble Alley, with hearty good will'[ch22]. A couple of forebitters/whaling·songs in ch 40 also - Spanish Ladies & Greenland Fisheries.}