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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
26-Jul-23 - 01:20 AM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
After I posted that I found Gibb mentioned Roberts, but without the lyric, in the Advent thread back in 2013. Missed it. Here's a "clean" one for the offensive lyric protestors:
““Hurrah! hurrah! up she's rising,––
Stamp and go, boys! up she's rising,––
Round with a will! and up she's rising,
Early in the morning.
What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?—
What shall us do with a lubberly sailor?—
Put him in the long-boat and make him bale her,
Early in the morning.
Hurrah! hurrah! up she's rising.”––
&c. &c. ad infinitum.
Anchor Song.”
[Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden: Being Extracts from the Journal of a Fisherman, Newland, 1855]
Henry Garrett Newland (1805 – 1860)