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Thread #172604 Message #4179753
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
23-Aug-23 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Subject: RE: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
An additional stab at the transcription!
Twas in the cold month of November, When all my money I had spent. It is quite usual for a sailor. So back to the shipping office I went.
Oh, Johnny, come back. Heave in the slack. Heave away your capstan, heave a pawl, heave a paw-aw-aw-awl! ‘Bout ship, staysails, [then?] be handy. Raise tacks, sheets, and mains’l haul!
Now in my bag I had a bottle, The boarding master gave [it?] me. Twas when to wet my bleedin’ throttle, When was the skipper I did see.