Lyr Req: the seed boat's a comin'? / Shrimp Boats

Subject: the seed boat's a comin'
From: GUEST,alan
Date: 29 May 06 - 11:15 AM

My wife's gran sang a song in the early 1950's.She thinks the first lines are.
          "The seed boats are a comin' the sails are in sight
          The seed boats are a comin' there'l be dancing tonight"
We think it refer's to potato seed's being shiped between Western Scotland and Ireland .Column Sands and Magie MacInnes sing a song with the same title and theme writen by Colum, first performed last year (2005)

Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 May 06 - 11:26 AM

There was a hit song sung by, I think, Jo Stafford called Shrimp Boats are a Coming, which is obviously the seed that your song sprang from.
Giok

Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin'
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 May 06 - 11:28 AM

There ya go
G..

Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin'
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 06 - 11:34 AM

Thank's that must be it.
alan.

Subject: RE: "Ahoy Cap'n! I seed a boat's a-comin'!"
From: Severn
Date: 29 May 06 - 04:34 PM

Is "Seed Shanties" the past tense? (if not-sow what?)

"Thar she grows! Sprouting off the starboard bow!", he wailed....

Or are they bringing much needed seed for reseeding hairlines, seeding territories by treaty,ex-seeding some limit or being de-seedful in planting-rumors of some other manor?...

Or is it Dick Greenhaus in his Seedy Boat with affordable pleasures for us all?...

Or are they related to the PIT songs the miners sing? Just what ARE we pitted against here? We're more to be pitted than scolded, I guess....

"You haul sixteen stones, and whaddya get?....." (I know that if you cut a pitman in two, you get a miner-in-fraction)

Maybe the song's descended from the old Brittish Nautical Ballad "Prawn Packets Are 'Proachin"", but the Digital Tradition has no sign of it, for some reason. Try the Digital Ex-tradition, which's their rubbish bin/"has bin".

I'm so confused......

Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin'
From: Amos
Date: 29 May 06 - 04:48 PM

"Shrimp Boats Are a Coming" is a hit song from   the 50's but I was sure it was also a piece from a musical such as "Showboat" or some similar Broadway hit or singing movie from that era. Am I crossing things up again?


A

Subject: RE: the seed boat's a comin'
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 May 06 - 05:10 PM

perhaps its a Jewish or Rastafarian variant - they have this thing about shellfish, or so I'm told.