Subject: Lyr Add: THE LINER SHE'S A LADY (Kipling/Bellamy)
From:
Dave Bryant
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 05:51 AM
I've always liked this poem and a couple of years ago, I set it to music for Linda to sing. I have since heard the tune composed by the late Peter Bellamy, but although we both set the verse in 3/4 time and the chorus in 4/4, they are quite different. The chorus is also set out the same way, using the end of the last line of each verse as the beginning of the first and last lines, but Kipling himself indicates this in the first and last verse of the poem.
Linda is often asked for the tune, so I thought I'd post the tune and words here. As you should realise, this song isn't really about ships, but a "purveyor of horizontal refreshment" selling her wares around Portsmouth Harbour.
The Liner She's a Lady - Rudyard Kipling
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds --
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;
But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',
They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up an' down!
Plyin' up an' down, Jenny, 'angin' round the Yard,
All the way by Fratton* tram down to Portsmouth 'Ard;
Anythin' for business, an' we're growin' old --
Plyin' up an' down, Jenny, waitin' in the cold!
The Liner she's a lady by the paint upon 'er face,
An' if she meets an accident they count it sore disgrace.
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, and 'e's always 'andy by,
But, oh, the little cargo-boats, they've got to load or die!
Got to load or die, Jenny, 'angin' round the Yard, etc.
The Liner she's a lady, and 'er route is cut an' dried;
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e always keeps beside;
But, oh, the little cargo-boats that 'aven't any man,
They've got to do their business first, and make the most they can!
The Liner she's a lady, and if a war should come,
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, and 'e'd bid 'er stay at home,
But, oh, the little cargo-boats that fill with every tide!
'E'd 'ave to up an' fight for them, for they are England's pride.
The Liner she's a lady, but if she wasn't made,
There still would be the cargo-boats for 'ome an' foreign trade.
The man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, but if we wasn't 'ere,
'E wouldn't have to fight at all for 'ome an' friends so dear.
* Fratton is a suburb of Portsmouth
MIDI file: liner.mid
Timebase: 384
TimeSig: 3/4 96 8
Tempo: 125 (480000 microsec/crotchet)
Name: Track 2
Key: F
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ABC format:
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I hope you like it.
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