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Thread #172604   Message #4189561
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."