Great stuff on the various versions of All For Me Grog. As 1/2 of the Reivers (we sang in British Columbia in the 1970s and early '80s) we sang a version we got froma a recording called Irish Drinking Songs by the group The Jolly Beggarmen. We sang it "For I spent all my tin on the lassie's drinkin gin", but the words sung by the Jolly Beggarman may have been "... on the lassies, drink and gin".... I can't really tell.

They also sang "... me lovin', lovin' boots", (and shirt in the next verse), and "...jolly, jolly grog" in the chorus. The term "noggin", I think may have been the original, however. They also sang "Since first I came ashore with me slumber", but as The Reivers we always sang "plunder". In the live recording I have the Beggarmen go right from that song into "Dicey Riley" and we always sang the two in combination as a kind of medley.

The information in the thread re. the origin of the term grog is correct. Also, the fact that the tobacco would have been chewed, not smoked, on board ships is correct. Fire was feared more than anything else on the old wooden sailing ships. This bears on the line in Dicey Riley, "... the heart of the roll is Dicey Riley." The tobacco used was "packaged" by rolling up the tobacco leaves. The best were in the middle, or heart, of the roll, with the lower quality leaves on the outside. Hence, Dicey Riley, is regarded as a person of high quality in spite of having "... taken to the slop." If anyone has more information, or more verses (I have only one verse and the chorus), to Dicey Riley, I'd like to see it posted. Perhaps a new thread would be called for.

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