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07 Apr 11 - 01:48 PM (#3130670) Subject: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: GUEST,anon cos embarrassed I was at the In Harmony's Way monthly sing last night and someone said a "jerking shanty" is one they do "down below." Can anyone comment on this? |
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07 Apr 11 - 01:52 PM (#3130673) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: stallion Oh dear, did they ask you to collect a "long stand" or "population tool" from the store, or to meet Ivor Binhad for the organ cleaning job? I was sent for a bag of round holes! Peter |
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07 Apr 11 - 01:52 PM (#3130675) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: RTim Was it on April 1st!! Tim |
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07 Apr 11 - 02:15 PM (#3130703) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Fred McCormick Sounds like it might be a variant on that good old stand by, the hand shandy. |
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07 Apr 11 - 02:27 PM (#3130719) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Louie Roy Sounds to me it's when you go out to the Jack house to back off |
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07 Apr 11 - 03:08 PM (#3130744) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Dave Swan Ya gotta watch that crowd. Baughman will have you singing his famously collected Botswanian sea shanty. Don't trust 'em. |
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07 Apr 11 - 03:28 PM (#3130756) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Charley Noble Wasn't there also a special shanty for hauling away at Blue Peter? "Blue Peter" (white with a blue square in the center) was the signal flag raised to alert sailors ashore that the ship was about to cast off. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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07 Apr 11 - 04:20 PM (#3130800) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: GUEST,leeneia I bet it's a chant for breaking loose an anchor which has become embedded in mud on the sea bottom. |
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07 Apr 11 - 04:50 PM (#3130818) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Smokey. I've always admired anyone who can sing whilst playing an instrument. |
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07 Apr 11 - 05:11 PM (#3130825) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Gurney Nice one, Smokey. |
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07 Apr 11 - 05:34 PM (#3130844) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: The Fooles Troupe Knew it would be a mistake to open this thread ... |
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07 Apr 11 - 06:27 PM (#3130897) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: The Fooles Troupe Jersey Kings Shanty? |
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08 Apr 11 - 03:38 AM (#3131107) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: cooperman I'd like to add one of these to my repertoire. Thanks, Wayne Kerr |
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08 Apr 11 - 08:04 AM (#3131227) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Fred McCormick Botswanian sea shanty? You'll be telling me next someone's found a log hauling song in the Ghobi desert. |
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08 Apr 11 - 08:28 AM (#3131236) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: MartinRyan You guys still pumping away? ;>) |
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08 Apr 11 - 08:36 AM (#3131242) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Charley Noble Fred- You mean you've never heard of the Great Ghobi Forest? Charley Noble |
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08 Apr 11 - 09:17 AM (#3131258) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Fred McCormick Ghobi forest? Not in my neck of the woods. But the Mongolian Ghobi forest is where the expression "go between" comes from. Before the Mongol hordes (Down boy. I said Mongol hordes, not Mongrel hordes), swept over Europe, corrupting our language and our maidens forever, the term was "ghobi twëën". Twëën in this case meaning to squeeze through the tightly planted timbers of the forest. To make things worse, the forest was inhabited by gophers, who could be heard loudly squealing "go for this" or "go for that", or sometmes just "go for it". |
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08 Apr 11 - 09:51 AM (#3131283) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Will Fly Fred - just stick to the old five-fingered widow, mate - go for it, in fact... :-) |
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08 Apr 11 - 10:52 AM (#3131310) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: kendall You've been had, Mate. |
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08 Apr 11 - 11:31 AM (#3131335) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: EBarnacle The Mongolian Forest, now known as the Gobi Desert was a lush, green area until shortly after I became an active logger. Working, as I was, for the pulp paper industry and far from my home base, I led a team which stripped all of the vegetation from the area to be sent to factories for the manufacture of paper for samizdats. I was young and foolish then and did not realize that the area would not regenerate itself. mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I hang my head in shame. Regarding a jerking chantey, did they actually do a song? If so, can you give us a hint as to some of the words? |
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08 Apr 11 - 11:40 AM (#3131343) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: stallion reminds me of the last line of the last verse in "It takes a worried man" Something about singing it all day long |
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08 Apr 11 - 11:41 AM (#3131344) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Dave Swan I love the Mudcat, there's so much to learn. I never knew half these things about the Gobi. Thanks, really. Here's a link to the lyrics of the Botsawanian Sea Chantey as collected by Steve Baughman. Pictured on the right of the photograph on the linked page, Baughman is never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. |
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08 Apr 11 - 04:39 PM (#3131525) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: kendall When I was 18 I went to work in the North woods of Maine as a lumberjack. The foreman to an instant dislike to me and insisted I prove I could do the job. He handed me an ax and pointed to a tree, said "Cut it down." With one might swing of the ax I laid it low. He pointed to a bigger one, same thing one swipe. Then he picked out the biggest tree in the forest and ordered me to cut it down. Again, one mighty blow and down it came. He said, I thought I knew every top lumberjack in the state of Maine but I've never seen the likes of you. Where did you work last"? I replied, "The Sahara forest." he said "Sahara Forest"? don't you mean Sahara desert"? I said, well, it is now."? |
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08 Apr 11 - 08:14 PM (#3131622) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Smokey. 'Jerking' is actually an old nautical term for polishing the protruding parts of the spokes on a ship's wheel. I thought everyone knew that. |
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08 Apr 11 - 09:06 PM (#3131640) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Gibb Sahib "Friggin' in the Riggin'"? |
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09 Apr 11 - 01:51 PM (#3132021) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: GUEST,Steve baughman I learned the other night that "I'll fly away" is an example of a "zipper song,". As is "Blue Tail Fly," but I still want someone to give me a jerking shanty. |
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09 Apr 11 - 04:51 PM (#3132104) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: Smokey. "I still want someone to give me a jerking shanty" Never say that in a crowded place; that's my advice. |
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09 Apr 11 - 11:00 PM (#3132238) Subject: RE: Folklore: What is a Jerking Shanty? From: EBarnacle The lyrics, that is. |