09 Feb 23 - 06:25 PM (#4164725) Subject: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e THE SAILOR'S WIFE Transcribed from "The Sailor's Wife" track on the CD Come On Lads by the Sod's Opera. The cd gives authentic songs from WWII. |
09 Feb 23 - 06:28 PM (#4164726) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e The Army Dance: Posted here. It is supposed to be from The Faber Book of War Poetry. |
09 Feb 23 - 06:59 PM (#4164728) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e THE FOUR WIVES From Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF, 1945, page 26. This song provides one the earliest references for the word "jacksie". |
10 Feb 23 - 08:24 AM (#4164766) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e SHE HAD THOSE DARK AND DREAMY EYES Collected by Les Cleveland from Coxman Burt Christy of Tetington, England on Aug 15, 1944. Christy said the song had about 30 stanzas and it was popular in the British Navy. |
10 Feb 23 - 01:08 PM (#4164789) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE From The Fighter Pilot's Hymn Book, 1958, page 43, compiled & edited by William Starr. This songbook was used by Oscar Brand to produce the Wild Blue Yonder LP's. See the songbook online here: https://archive.org/details/1958thefighterpilotshymnbookwilliamstarr |
10 Feb 23 - 01:31 PM (#4164790) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e SEVEN WHORES OF POMPEY Pgs 198-199, The Fleet Air Arm Songbook (1971). The songbook can be viewed online here: https://archive.org/details/1979cathefleetairarmsongbook/page/198/mode/2up?view=theater |
10 Feb 23 - 02:55 PM (#4164794) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e No. 1293 The Master Book of American Folk Song, 1983, ed by Riley Shepard. |
10 Feb 23 - 03:29 PM (#4164797) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Sailor's Wife (Rakish Kind) From: and e THREE PLYMOUTH WHORES Retrieved from https://www.harmonieii.co.uk/caving/plymouth.html on 10 Feb 2023. The website has music and an MP3. The website says that four caving verses have been added but he kept as many of the original verses as he could remember. |