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Thread #49444   Message #2818790
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Jan-10 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
Subject: RE: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
"Tom Tack," I assume, refers to the poem by Charles Dibdin Junior, first verse-
Tom Tack was the shipmate for duty,
Till fortune she gave him a twitch,
For Tom fell in love with a beauty-
He'd better have fall'n in a ditch:
With his fair he could get no promotion,
So Tom, like a desperate dog,
He drown'd all his cares in the ocean,-
But then, 'twas the ocean of grog.


These are the Sea Songs of Charles Dibdin, Junior, like those of T. Dibdin often carelessly ascribed to the senior Dibdin. Many are on the humorous side.

All in his Glory
A Tar's Duty
The Bowsprit of Wapping
Born at sea, and my cradle a frigate
Ben the Boatswain
Good Ship Britannia
I unshipp'd from aboard the Sky Rocket
I'm a true honest-hearted gay fellow
Jack Junk was a tar who could tether his tack
Jack Gunnel, an odd fish
Let 'em come
Lieutenant Yeo
Modes of Invasion
Naval Worthies
Old England's ship of the line
Off Cape Finisterre
Poll of Horsleydown
Pro Aris et Focis
Ready for Action
Sailor's Log Ashore
Sons of Albion, sound to arms
The Albion is a noble ship
The foe, on one string always strumming
Tom Tack was the shipmate for duty
The Obstinate Dog
When a sailor goes to sea
We're told that our foes to invade us intend
Your grave politicians may kick up a rout
Ye landsmen and ye seamen

From Songs of Charles Dibdin, with a Memoir, collected and arranged by T. Dibdin, Admiralty Edition, George Bell and Sons.

The Addena include the songs of T. Dibdin, and the Sea Songs of C. Dibdin. Jun.

Songs of T. Dibdin include "Poll of Wapping Stairs," "Sam Splicem," "Tobacco, Grog and Flip," etc.