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Thread #29380   Message #367327
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Bean
02-Jan-01 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Songs from: Captains Courageous
Subject: Captains Courageous
I'm looking for sources for the songs cited in Kipling's Captains Courageous. The Dreadnought and Fish of the Sea are both here (and easily found elsewhere. Other texts are not so easily found. The first cited is: "Bring forth the chart, the doleful chart, See where them mountings meet! The clouds are thick around their heads, the mists arpond their feet." The second: "And naow to thee, O Capting, Most earnestly I pray, That they shall never bury me In church or cloister grey." Perhaps the most intriguing is: "Oh, Double Thatcher, how are you? Now eastern point comes into view. The girls and boys we soon shall see, At anchor off Cape Ann!" and "Hih! Yih! Yoho! Send your letters raound! All our salt is wetted, an' the anchor's off the ground Bend, oh, bend your mains'l, We're back to Yankeeland- With fifteen hunder' quintal, an'fifteen hunder' quintal, "Tween hunder' toppin' quintal 'Twixt old Queereau an' Grand." Are any of these traditional or did Kipling create them? Any help is much appreciated.