Aka: "O Mr. Captain, Stop the Ship, I Want to Get Off and Walk"

Typical mention:
"In the evening a dozen of the younger officers and newspaper men used to get together in a sheltered place on the quarterdeck with banjos and guitars, and the soft, steady trade-winds carried away to leeward the words and music of Kipling's "On the Road to Mandalay," or the land-lubber's song,

        O Mr. Captain, stop the ship!
        I want to get off and walk.

[Kennan, George, The Tragedy of Pelée, (New York, The Outlook Company, 1902, pp8-9.)]


"...George Frederick Sides, who was born in Germany and in 1835 emigrated to the United States. He was a tanner and worked at his trade in Reading, Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, and Middletown. He was a Democrat and a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church.

...Mr. Sides, the father, is remembered as the author of the famous song, "O Mr. Captain, Stop the Ship, I Want to Get Off and Walk."

[Kelker, Luther Reily, History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Vol.3 (New York, The Lewis Pub., Co., 1907, p.330]