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Thread #90681 Message #4221648
Posted By: Jack Horntip
26-Apr-25 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Every Good Ship Has a Mainmast (chantey)
Every ship has a cabin Every cabin has doors Every sailor likes a nice girl With nice pretty drawers. Lower away your main t'gallant sail Lower away your main t'gallant sail You son of a whore.
"Every verse takes another part of the ship and a catholic taste in adjectives.--A fragment collected by a friend of mine in the dockyard end of London. The tune of the shanty was a variant of the German student song, 'Gradaus den Wirtzhaus'."
E. Anderson
c1927. The Gordon Inferno Collection. Text #3729. Notable for naming a tune.