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Thread #24814   Message #2923586
Posted By: GUEST
08-Jun-10 - 10:25 PM
Thread Name: Help: Capital Ship's 'boxing glove'?!?!
Subject: RE: Help: Capital Ship's 'boxing glove'?!?!
This song camne to my mind today, and I could not remember all the words, so I did a Web search in Google and found several versions. As children in the 1950s, my sister and I used to sing it from an old, old songbook my parents had at home. This book combined two of the verses to shorten the song:

"All nautical pride we laid aside
As we ran the vessel ashore
On the Gulliby Isles where the Pooh-Pooh smiles,
And the Rubbily Updugs roar.
We sat on the edge of a sandy ledge
And shot at the whistling bee-ee-ee,
While the cinnamon bats wore waterproof hats
As they dipped in the shining sea."

In this songbook version, the line about the captain's dining was, "Off toasted pigs and pickles and figs,
and gunnery bread each day."

And it was "rugbug bark" and the "rugbug tree" in the songbook we had. (Some of the versions of lyrics I saw today had "rugabug" or "rubabug".)

George