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28 Jul 03 - 01:41 PM (#992090) Subject: Lyr Add: SAILOR CUT DOWN IN HIS PRIME (from Killen From: Roberto Please, some help with this text, The Sailor Cut Down in his Prime, as sung by Louis Killen on A Seaman's Garland, Sailors, Ships & Chanteys, vol.2 KnockOut 1997. I can't understand where was Louis a-walking, it sounds to me like "Haslow Seawall". But please, if someone owns the CD, have a look at the whole text, and correct it. Thank you. Roberto As I was a-walking down by Haslow (????) Seawall Cold was the morning and dark was the day When who should I spy but one of my shipmates Wrapped up in flannel and cold as the clay He called for a candle to light him to bed with Likewise a flannel to wrap 'round his head For his poor head was achin' and his heart it was a-breakin' He was a young sailor cut down in his prime So beat the drums over and play the fife merrily Sound the dead march as you carry him along Take him to the graveyard, fire four volleys o'er him He was a young sailor cut down in his prime Now, his good old mother, his dear old father They oft times had warned him about his past life When with those flash girls of the city he'd wander With flash girls of the city he take (?) his delight So beat the drums over, ecc Now he is dead and he's laid in his coffin Let six strong matelots (?) come and carry him along And likewise six young girls to carry white roses So as not to smell him as they pass along So beat the drums over ecc At the corner of the street two young women was standing One to the other was heard to remark: There goes a young sailor whose money we squandered Whose life we have tasted (?)and wasted away So beat the drums over ecc At the top of his tombstone, these words they are written: All you young seamen take a warning by me And never go courting flash girls of the city Flash girls of the city they've been the ruin of me Beat the drums over and play the fife merrily Sound the dead march as you carry him along Take him to the graveyard, fire four volleys o'er him He was a young sailor cut down in his prime |
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28 Jul 03 - 07:37 PM (#992309) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Looks like this song is also linked to these songs: Trooper Cut Down In His Prime |
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28 Jul 03 - 07:39 PM (#992310) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Snuffy Haslar is an island in Portsmouth Harbour, where there was a navy hospital. Could be that? |
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28 Jul 03 - 08:14 PM (#992328) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Malcolm Douglas Does he indicate his source? The song is extremely widespread in a great many forms. A little more information as to where he got it would help. |
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29 Jul 03 - 03:46 AM (#992468) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Roberto Louis Killen writes he got the song from Cyril Tawney, and says it is a Royal Navy version. Roberto |
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29 Jul 03 - 04:37 AM (#992488) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Skipper Jack There is a version in the "Marrow Bones" (English Folk Songs)book. The first line reads: 'One day as I strolled down by the Royal Albion.' Otherwise the lyrics are more or less the same as the version printed here. |
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29 Jul 03 - 05:54 AM (#992518) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Roberto Royal Albion is generally the place where the singer of this song, in its sailor variant, meets his unfortunate shipmate. Louis Killen's version talks about another place, .... Seawall. If somebody has this CD, maybe I'll get to know where did Louis Killen met the sailor cut down in his prime. I wait in hope. Roberto |
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29 Jul 03 - 06:44 AM (#992529) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Snuffy I still think it has to be on the seawall at Haslar, especially as it's a Royal Navy version From Bartholomew's Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles, including summary of 1951 Census: Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hants, for men of the Royal Navy. Sounds like just the place to take a dying sailor. Other versions have other hospitals (Locke Hospital and St James' Infirmary). WassaiL! V |
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29 Jul 03 - 07:10 AM (#992536) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Roberto Snuffy, I hadn't read well your previous post. Yes, I think Haslar could be the right answer.Thank you very much. Roberto |
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29 Jul 03 - 02:26 PM (#992654) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Louis Killen's The Sailor Cut Down From: Anglo Cyril Tawney (from whom Louis learned the song) writes in the notes to his LP "Between Decks": To suit my shipmates I often used to place the scene of this song on the seawall at Haslar Hospital, Gosport, a Naval Establishment that was familiar to them, in order to get their attention at the beginning of the song. |