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Thread #128220   Message #3111515
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
11-Mar-11 - 05:24 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
1906[1905]        Lincoln, Joseph C. _Partners of the Tide._ New York: A.L. Burt Company.

A work of fiction set off Cape Cod among the world of fishing schooners and coal barges. For entertainment purposes, some are singing a song "that every fisherman knows." It has a "storm along" chorus, however it doesn't seem to conform to any of the versions of the chanty. It may be contrived.

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Peleg Myrick was bearing his concertina to safe quarters in the shanty, and they insisted that he should play it. Peleg protested that it was too wet for music on board that tug, but they threatened to heave the "push-and-pull-pianner" overboard if he didn't play.
"Play somethin' we can sing," ordered Bill Taylor.
Peleg struck up a doleful dirge of the sea. It was loaded to the gunwale with wrecks and disasters.
"Belay that!" cried Barney Small. "We don't want no Come-all-ye's. That's the tune that soured the milk. Give us a hoe-down."
The musician considered. Then he burst into the air that every fisherman knows:

"The grub is in the galley and the rum is in the jug—
Storm along, John! John, storm along!
The skipper's from Hyannis and he gives us bully mug—
Storm along, storm along, John!"

"Chorus!" howled Barney, waving his cap. They joined in with a whoop:

"Storm along, John! John, storm along!
   Ain't I glad my day's work's done! 

Storm along, John! John, storm along!
Ain't I glad my day's work's done!"
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