The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5512   Message #4182156
Posted By: Lighter
21-Sep-23 - 02:25 PM
Thread Name: Origin: All for Me Grog
Subject: RE: Origin: All for Me Grog
I heard Twilight's stanza about the beat-up bed ca1983.

Capt. David A. McLeod, "Cape Breton Captain," referring to the 1870s:

"I heard the boys singing...

"It's all for the grog, boys, the bully, bully grog
We work for our rum and tobacco
For I have spent all my tin
With the girls a-drinking gin
And across the briny ocean I must wander."

A local parody called "All for the Stripes and the Diamonds" was sung at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1877.