Tune Req: Captain Nipper

Subject: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: GUEST,Mick O'Farrell
Date: 03 May 04 - 11:46 AM

Does anybody know of a good recorded version of the sea shanty 'Captain Nipper'.

Cheers
Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: Crane Driver
Date: 03 May 04 - 06:55 PM

Nothing recent, but I have it on an old Topic LP "Room for Company" (IMP-S-104), recorded in 1972. Apparently the words and music of all the songs on this LP are in a book of the same title, by Roy Palmer, published by Cambridge University Press. Before someone else jumps on you, be aware that it isn't a shanty (sailors' work song) but a song sung for amusement during the men's off watch (forebitter). Roy Palmer's notes say that the song was first published in 1914.

Andrew

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 May 04 - 02:26 AM

Anybody able to post the lyrics?
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: GUEST,Pelrad
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 11:00 PM

On the 15th of September
And well I do remember
I nearly broke my poor old mother's heart
For I shipped with Captain Nipper
On a big four-masted clipper
Headed way down south to foreign parts.

CH: And the wind began to blow
And the ship began to roll
And a devil of a hurricane did blow-i-o
And it nearly knocked the stuffing
From the good ship Ragamuffin
And we thought to the bottom we would go.


I'm sorry to say I don't remember the rest, but when I can dig out the tape it's buried on I will post more. I have a recording of Jim Mageean and Johnny Collins singing this at Mystic in 1981 or 1982.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 12:21 PM

I can give you the ABC for the tune if its helpful. (From "Room for Company" ed Roy Palmer)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: DMcG
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 12:23 PM

(and I had noticed the date of the post, but as the thread is recently referenced as unanswered request for tune, maybe someone wants it apart from the original poster)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: captain nipper
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 29 Sep 07 - 02:02 PM

And see thread Origins: good ship ragamuffin for a (presumably) full text from an unacknowledged source.