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Thread #47700 Message #4226956
Posted By: Charley Noble
09-Aug-25 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: Is it me or is Shakespeare very strange
Subject: RE: Is it me or is Shakespeare very strange
Stilly River Sage,
I would eventually gotten around to providing the link to Pete Seeger's rendition of "Full Fathom Five" but I got distracted by a song that is raised in The Tempest:
"The Master, The Swabber, The Boatswain and I"
I've extended the lyrics a bit so it now reads:
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare, as sung by Stephano, 1611 Adapted by Charlie Ipcar, 7/31/2025; tune after "The Mariner's Compass is Grog" Key: G (7/C)
The Master, The Swabber, The Bosun, And I
C----------------------------------G7 The master, the swabber, the bosun, and I, ------C--------------------F---C--G The gunner, the cook, and the mate, ---------C-----------------------G7 Loved Molly, and Meg, and Margery, -------C----------G----------C But none of us cared for Kate.
C------------------------F---------C None of us cared for Kate, me lads! --------F-C---------F/C-G None of us cared for Kate! ---------C-----------------------G7 Loved Molly, and Meg, and Margery, -------C----------G----------C But none of us cared for Kate.
Kate loved not the savour of tar nor pitch; And she had a tongue with a tang; Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch, But she'd cry to a sailor, "Go hang!"
She'd cry to a sailor, "Go hang!" me lads! She'd cry to a sailor, "Go hang!" Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch, But she'd cry to a sailor, "Go hang!"
So Molly, and Meg, and Margery, We’re off to sea once more; And it will be a long, long time Till we return to your shore.
Till we return to your shore, me loves, Till we return to your shore; And it will be a long, long time Till we return to your shore.
When I manage to record it I'llprovide a link but it's still a work in progress.