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03 Mar 04 - 01:31 PM (#1128542) Subject: Tune Req: The master, the swabber... From: GUEST,Kate at Williams College's Mystic Seaport Se Help! I'm trying to locate a sea song that has the following verse: The master, the swabber the boatswain, and I the gunner, and his mate Loved Mall, Meg and Marian, and Margery But none of us cared for Kate For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor "Go Hang" She loved not the savor of tar nor of pitch; Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang. |
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03 Mar 04 - 01:42 PM (#1128555) Subject: RE: Tune Req: The master, the swabber... From: GUEST,A Wandering Minstrel The song originates in Shakespeare's The Tempest. You'll find it in Act2 scene ii spoken by Stephano. The lines you have given comprise the complete song As with many Shakesperean songs the actual tune is not recorded although I have heard a sung version at a performance at Cambridge Arts Theatre some years ago, so it may be that there is an extant tune or at least one that fits. |