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I give up. What's a HOGEYE? DigiTrad: HOG-EYE MAN THE LIFEBOAT MAN Related threads: Lyr Add: Hogseye Man (39) Lyr Req: Peggy in the garden? / Hog-Eye Man (2) Lyr Add: Predecessor song to 'Hogeye Man' (29) Lyr Req: Dirty Hog eye man? (57) Hogeyed man (16)
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Subject: RE: I give up. What's a HOGEYE? From: Dave Swan Date: 04 Jun 99 - 02:27 PM According to a friend of mine who sings this song, there was a kind of sailboat, sloop rigged I think, which plied the waters of San Francisco Bay, called a hog's-eye. Apparently the men who sailed them were represented in song as dashing charmers. We know a variant which repeats "She loves the hog's-eye man" . That's the way I heard it. |
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Subject: I give up. What's a HOGEYE? From: Margo Date: 04 Jun 99 - 01:29 PM There is a sea shanty "Hogeye" man. Among other lyrics, there are: "She wants the hogeye man" "Railroad navvie with his sea boots on" "Oh the hogeye men are all ago when they go down to San Francisco" So what's a hogeye man? a railroad navvie? Thanks, Margarita
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