The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146081 Message #3383597
Posted By: Charley Noble
30-Jul-12 - 08:14 AM
Thread Name: Mystery Chanty (1917)
Subject: RE: Mystery Chanty (1917)
Hesk-
Yes, adding "Now" to the last line permits us to keep the rest of that line with a number of traditional nautical settings such as "Liverpool Judies/Row Bullies Row":
Here comes the Old Man looped to the gills,
His hands in his pockets and a mouth full of pills;
He's cussin' an' hollerin' from dawn to the dusk,
"Now get a move on, you ham-handed louts!"
Cheerily,
Charley Noble