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Thread #172604 Message #4180338
Posted By: Lighter
30-Aug-23 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
Subject: RE: Origins: Valparaiso / Paddy Lay Back
"The People and the Collectivist" (Sydney) (June 9, 1900):
"While the tug conveyed us down the river to where the vessel lay at anchor the chortling idiots who accompanied me kept me awake by singing:
Get back,
Take in your slack,
Heave away the capstan,
Heave apaul [sic]
Bout ship!
[S]tations, boys, be handy,
Lay home tacks,
Sheets and mainsail haul."