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18 Sep 07 - 03:34 PM (#2152082) Subject: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Wolfgang No, it's not "What shall we do...", but a Cyril Tawney song included as an untitled bonus track on the CD "Navy Cuts". I'm fairly sure after a bit of googling that the title is "The drunken sailor". I'd be very thankful if someone could post the lyrics. Wolfgang |
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18 Sep 07 - 06:47 PM (#2152226) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: GUEST,effsee, not at home If memory serves, the only bonus track on Navy Cuts is "Re-union". I s this the track you mean Wolfgang? If so I can probably transcribe it tomorrow if nobody else does before then..."Sorrow is my stock in trade, sadness is my style"...is that the one you mean? |
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18 Sep 07 - 07:47 PM (#2152272) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: gnomad There are 14 tracks listed, but 16 on the disc. One of the extras is as mentioned by guest effsee. The other is about a drunken sailor, though I don't know whether or not that is the actual title. I have it listed as "In the doorway", but being unsure where I got that title from, I am also unsure whether that helps or just confuses matters. |
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18 Sep 07 - 07:59 PM (#2152282) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: GEST Zany Mouse posted the lyrics here in the Mudcat on 19 June, 2007. See http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=102577 :) |
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19 Sep 07 - 12:45 AM (#2152394) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Sky Sailor There is a track on the album 'Sally Free And Easy' entitled 'The Drunken Sailor'. It begins Behold the animated sack Bloodstained cap stuck flat aback A creature draped in the garb of Jack A-swaying in the doorway Could this be what you are looking for? |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:15 AM (#2152524) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: GUEST,Wolfgang There are two untitled bonus tracks on my Navy Cuts CD. One is "Reunion" that has been posted recently under the first-line title "Sorrow is my stock of trade" (GEST's link). The second is the one I'm looking for and it is the one Sky Sailor has started to post. Wolfgang |
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19 Sep 07 - 07:18 AM (#2152527) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Sky Sailor Hello Wolfgang If nobody beats me to it, I will finish the transcription this evening. |
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19 Sep 07 - 09:48 AM (#2152618) Subject: Lyr Add: THE DRUNKEN SAILOR (C. Tawney) From: Sky Sailor THE DRUNKEN SAILOR Cyril Tawney Behold the animated sack With a mudstained cap stuck flat aback A creature draped in the garb of Jack A-swaying in the doorway Observe the vomit-laden shoes The legacy of lavish booze A mixture of assorted stews Displaying in the doorway And note the glassy eyes that peer In vain pursuit of image clear The whole assembly far and near Surveying from the doorway Perceive the fingers, bloodless white That clutch the varnished woodwork tight Without their aid their owner might Be laying in the doorway But see, with valour born of drink Security is thrown at stake As comes, at last, the grave mistake Of straying from the doorway Watch now, the big be-gatored four Are, from his resting place, the floor, The guardian of our island's shore, Conveying through the doorway They'll take him to the cabin plain With a padlocked door, but all in vain Next payday he'll appear again A-swaying in the doorway Regards Derek (Sky sailor) |
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19 Sep 07 - 10:02 AM (#2152627) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: GUEST,Wolfgang Many thanks, Derek. Reading the lyrics now I realise why I had to give up the attempt at transcription. Wolfgang |
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19 Sep 07 - 10:14 AM (#2152634) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Sky Sailor You are welcome, Wolfgang I had a bit of a problem working out the punctuation in the penultimete verse, to make it make sense. Regards Derek |
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19 Sep 07 - 10:59 AM (#2152663) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: GUEST I have a hunch that "be-gaitered" is probably closer to correct than "be-gatored" in the penultimate verse. I can't make any sense out of "be-gatored", but I've heard of a kind of footwear called "gaiters", and "be-gaitered" would make if the military police wear that kind of footwear. Does anyone know whether or not that's the case? |
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19 Sep 07 - 11:14 AM (#2152668) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Effsee Yes Guest, that is the right way of it. |
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19 Sep 07 - 11:25 AM (#2152671) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Sky Sailor Yes, I must have had a mental abberation!! |
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19 Sep 07 - 01:52 PM (#2152772) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Geordie-Peorgie Aahhhh!! Gaiters wez them bits of canvas wi' straps what went aroond the ankles te keep the troosers from flappin' aboot In past times the' wez 'puyyees' which were strips of (khaki) cloth which did the same thing but in wartime could be used as bandages an' aall. If yez watch any parade of the armed forces ye'll see them (normally white for serious parades) in abundance. The 'Crushers' - naval police - wore them as a matter of course on patrol - hence the 'be-gaitored four' - The crushers never worked in less than two's because one would be the writer and one would be the reader - The' wez never clever enough te dee both! Their 'arrest caution' was "Anything you say will be taken down in pencil and may be altered later" |
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19 Sep 07 - 01:53 PM (#2152773) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The drunken sailor (C. Tawney) From: Geordie-Peorgie Sorry - Them strips of cloth wez 'puttees' - Damned bad-spellin' laptop! |
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03 Aug 08 - 11:12 AM (#2404270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Drunken Sailor (Cyril Tawney) From: GUEST,Guest Thanks to all the correspondents with regard to finding the names for the extra tracks on 'Navy Cuts' I searched high and low on Google for the info and this was the only site that seemed to know anything about them. Many thanks. I may have to sign up. |
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03 Aug 08 - 12:04 PM (#2404287) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Drunken Sailor (Cyril Tawney) From: McGrath of Harlow I searched high and low on Google for the info and this was the only site that seemed to know anything about them. And you aren't the first to find that to be true. Come on in and join the party. |
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03 Aug 08 - 10:45 PM (#2404632) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Drunken Sailor (Cyril Tawney) From: Joe_F "Reunion", in contrast, is about a *formerly* drunken sailor. It is not funny at all. It makes me think how terribly lucky I am not to be an addict. |
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04 Aug 08 - 06:00 PM (#2405227) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Drunken Sailor (Cyril Tawney) From: MuddleC I never did enjoy 'run ashore's' like that.. and anyway, we had to be in 'civi's'..the Navy and other services stopped wearing uniform ashore during 'the trubbles' |