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Thread #5512   Message #973732
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Jun-03 - 03:26 AM
Thread Name: Origin: All for Me Grog
Subject: ADD Version: All For Me Grog (A.L. Lloyd)^^
Several versions in the Digital Tradition claim to be from the singing of A.L. Lloyd, but this one I'm sure of. It's from the A.L. Lloyd CD, English Drinking Songs. I hear "noggy-noggin'" - but I'm not completely sure of that.

ALL FOR ME GROG

Chorus:
All for me grog, me jolly jolly grog
All for me beer and tobacco
For we spent all our tin with the lassies drinking gin
And across the western ocean we must wander


Oh, where are me boots, me noggy, noggin' boots?
All gone for beer and tobacco
And the heels they are wore out and the soles are knocked about
And me toes are looking out for better weather
(Chorus)

I'm sick in the head for I haven't been to bed
Since first I come ashore with me plunder
I see centipedes and snakes and I'm full of pains and aches
So I'd better make a push out over yonder.
(Chorus)

Where is me shirt, my noggy, noggin' shirt?
All gone for beer and tobacco
And the collar is wore out, and the front is knocked about
And the tail is looking out for better weather
(chorus)

source: transcribed from the A.L. Lloyd CD, English Drinking Songs^^
The tune sounds like HEREGROG (click) in the Digital Tradition. It seems to be the tune most commonly associated with this song.