From the Liverpool Folk Song a Week blog (with many thanks to Richard from Liverpool for the compliment of picking up one of these songs):-

MV Statesman

Some commentators reckon "Parental Guidance" advisory on this one. Maybe so - sadly nothing you wouldn't hear on the street these days. It's posted above (29th April 2008) as it came to Ron. From my notes at the time:- "Ron submitted songs and notes to Roy Palmer when he was revising the Oxford Book of Sea Songs (republished as Boxing the Compass). Receiving a complimentary copy from Roy with thanks for his contributions, Ron was looking forward to showing off the book with his collected songs in print at last. He was a bit dismayed to find Roy had included the above song unexpurgated, thus severely limiting the range of sisters, cousins and aunts to whom the book could be shown!"

Ross