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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
24-Jul-23 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
c.1830?
““Ship ahoy!” the gateman sings out, while, with a merry tramp and an enlivening song, the capstan bars go round-with some such burthen as this:

        “Shove him in the long-boat till he gets sober.”

“Hilloa!” returns the mate from the deck.”
[Roberts, Dock-Side; or, Liverpool Twenty-Five Years Ago: A Local Sketch, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, June, 1855]
Edwin F. Roberts (1818 – 1864)