Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!

Subject: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 06:31 PM

This is a contemporary shanty (from early 90s) telling the plight of greenhand sailors coming to terms with one of the less pleasant aspects of being at sea.

OOPS!! JAMBOREE!
(Belsey & Trad)

Now me lads, be of good cheer,
For the open sea will soon draw near
Unsteady times ahead, I fear
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

    Oops jamboree! Oops Jamboree!
    Oh you sea-sick sailor, falling down behind
    Oops Jamboree! Oops Jamboree!
    I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

Now the land is out of sight
Things ain't as steady as the old rock light
I'll feel worse by tomorrow night
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

Now that we are outward bound
I wish my feet were on dry ground
Then I'd be nowhere to be found
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

Now we're on the open sea
The waters roar; the wind blows free
It's back on shore I'd rather be
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

Now we're on the ocean wide
The ship it rolls from side to side
It's down below I long to hide
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

Across the raving main we'll go
The horizon's moving to and fro
I'll be heaving up in an hour or so
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

And when we reach the foreign shore
I'll be the first one to the door
I never will walk straight no more
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?

And when I'm firmly stood on land
I'll kiss the ground upon the strand
A lubber's life would be right grand
I wonder where me sea-legs' gone?



Tune: Traditional, words: (c) S P Belsey

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 01:22 AM

Better known as Whip Jamboree or Whoop Jamboree.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 04:45 AM

But hey, I kinda like the "Oops" version. As a maintenance man and maintainer of a computer network, I learned that it is very important NOT to say "oops" when the boss is around.
It doesn't inspire confidence.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: GUEST,crumbly
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 04:57 AM

I think the (Liverpool) Spinners popularised it as 'Whip Jamboree' in the sixties folk clubs

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 05:01 AM

It's OK SPB. If I spotted that it was a parody I am sure many others did :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 05:19 AM

Dave, you win this weeks prize (free kudos for 1 month) for reading beyond the subject line.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 08:09 AM

"'Whip Jamboree' in the sixties folk clubs"
They used to sing it with their other disaster song 'The Marco Polo "the ship with the hole in it"
Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: GUEST,crumbly
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 08:34 AM

danny Kyle had a glasgow parody of the 'Marco Polo' song-

instead of 'Marco Polo, the fastest on the Line (?) he sang

Renfrew Ferry, the fastest on the Clyde'

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 11:13 AM

Joe, Apart from when I was at college, I had no contact with mainframes. Were you ever (un)lucky enough to hear a disk head crash on the old stacked hard disks. Heard that the sound could be pretty spectacular.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: GUEST,SPB without cookie
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 04:32 PM

Laid down the challenge tonight whether this is the only known sea song about sea-sickness. Anyone going to prove me wrong?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: GUEST,Bob Coltman
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 05:16 PM

I believe its recorded career began with A. L. Lloyd's singing on one of his Riverside LPs of Sea Songs, shared with Ewan McColl.

Lloyd's title: "Whoop Jamboree."

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: meself
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:05 PM

Re: sea-sickness. The version of Paddy Lay Back I know has "half the crew a pukin' o'er the ship's side" as they set out on their voyage.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Oops! Jamboree!
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Sep 21 - 03:33 AM

Certainly an improvement pc wise to the origins of the song ~ er um

Ray