Origin: All for Me Grog

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: O'Boyle
Date: 30 Jun 98 - 09:21 PM

The band the Wake does a chorus that begins "Where is my dick..." so it's all open to interpretation.

Slainte

Rick

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: Pete M
Date: 29 Jun 98 - 04:38 AM

Quite right Barry, I would also add that the ommisson of a reference to 'baccy as a stand on non smoking misses the point. Any one caught smoking on a ship of the line would probably have been hung for gross negligence endangering His Majestys' Ship. Fire always was and remains the greatest danger on a ship. 'Baccy was chewed, with at least on merchant men, spitoons being provided alongside the wheel for use by the helmsman. Anyone caught spitting on the deck would likewise be flogged. The whiteness of the decks was a measure of the capability of the First Lieutenant: "Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou has to do. On the Seventh thou shalt holystone the decks and clean out the chain locker." One other titbit of Naval lore. Although the hands were mustered for Divine service on Sunday, this was of secondary importance to the reading of the Articles of War, read aloud to ensure that no enlisted man could claim ignorance of them. The majority of the articles had as penalty "Death or such lesser punishment as the court may decide."

Pete M

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Jun 98 - 10:31 PM

Vice Admiral Sir Edward Vernon, England's hero of the 1739 War Of Jenkins's Ear, was nickname Old Grog because of an impressive grogam cloak he wore on deck in all weather. In 1740 with half the punishments handed down by the Brittish Navy involved drunkeness, Old Grog issued an order, to curb the drunkness on board ships of his own command, that rum be diluted with water, 1/2 pint rations, split to be given 6 hrs apart, in anger & protest this mix bares his nickname, this became the ration for the Royal Navy. Rum will also not stay long after being watered down, so there'd be no use to try & save up rations. Here's to your health, Barry

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: rosebrook
Date: 28 Jun 98 - 01:48 AM

From a crew member of the tall ship Lady Washington, I learned the non-smoking (though who wants to be be PC singing a raunchy beer guzzling song?!) chorus which goes:

And it's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog
All for me beer and expresso...

Subject: Lyr Add:: ALL FOR ME GROG (Australian version)^^
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 09:13 PM

G'day,
Here's the Aussie version:-

ALL FOR ME GROG

Well I am a ramblin' lad me story it is sad
If ever I get to Lachlan I should wonder
For I spent all me brass in the bottom of the glass
And across the western plains I must wander.

And it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog
It's all for me beer and tobacco
For I spent all me tin in a shanty drinking gin
Now across the western plains I must wander.

Well I'm stiff, stony broke and I've parted from me moke
And the sky is lookin' black as flamin' thunder
The shanty boss is blue 'cause I haven't got a sou
That's the way they treat you when you're down and under.

I'm crook in the head and I haven't been to bed
Since first I touched this shanty with me plunder
I see centipedes and snakes, and I'm full of aches and shakes
And I think it's time to push for way out yonder.

I'll take to the Old Man Plain, and criss-cross him once again
Until me eyes the track no longer see boys
And me beer and whiskey brain search for sleep but all in vain
And I feel as if I've had the Darling Pea boys.

So it's hang yer jolly grog, yer hocussed shanty grog
The beer that is loaded with tobacco
Graftin' humour I am in, and I'll stick the peg right in
And settle down once more to some hard yakka.^^

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: Barbara
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 08:28 PM

The song All for me grog was collected by Kidson and Moffat from a Yorkshire sailor and publish in English Peasnt Songs in 1929.

Peter Kennedy has it as a variant of Here's to the Grog in the Folksongs of Britain and Ireland.

So I guess that you could say that it's traditional, it's the arrangement that isn't.

Subject: RE: All for me grog
From: Bruce O.
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 02:58 PM

Version in DT as "Here's to the Grog"

Subject: All for me grog
From:
Date: 27 Jun 98 - 02:27 PM

I am looking for information regarding the song All For Me Grog, which I learned from a Clancy Brothers CD. I really like the song, and I have plans to record it for a debut album. In the case of the Clancy's version, I would have to get the mechanical rights to do so.

However, I've noticed the song exists in a traditional form and I may not have to bother with rights depending on my choice of lyrics.

I suspected this song may be a traditional piece which existed prior to the Clancy Brother's version because I've heard it performed at Renaissance faires with completely different verses.

Anyone who has any details regarding this songs history, please contact me privately at: [e-mail] or visit my web site at: www.mindspeak.com