Patrick Grantham wrote:
> love it!
> A couple of questions though;)
> jolly roving tar? I sailing ship?
> port stout works, but I think it's pork scouse - a stew-like meal served in
> a bowl made with lamb or pork, but I'm no expert.
> pretty sure grog is beer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Dylan Hardison
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:49 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: List Chaos.
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>
>>What happened to the group hug? I thought everyone when laughing,
>
> drinking
>
>>and singing Irish pub songs?!
>
>
>>Bartender! Another round of Ale for everyone!
>
>
>
> Here here!
>
> /*
> Ships may come and ships may go
> As long as the sea does roll.
> Each sailor lad just like his dad,
> He loves the flowing bowl.
>
> A trip a shore he does adore
> With a girl that's plump and round.
> When yout money's gone
> It's the same old song,
> "Get up Jack John, sit down!"
>
> [Chorus:]
>
> Come along, come along, me jolly brave boys,
> There's lots of grog in the jar.
> We'll prowl the briny ocean
> With a jolly roving tar.
>
> When Jack comes in, it's then he'll steer
> To some old boarding house.
> They'll welcome him with rum and gin,
> And feed him on port stout
>
> He'll spend and he'll not offend
> Untill he's drunk on the ground
> And when you money's gone
> It's the same old song,
> "Get up Jack John, sit down!"
>
> [Chorus]
>
> Jack, he then, oh then he'll sail
> Bound down for Newfoundland
> All the ladies fair in Placentia there
> They love that sailor man.
>
> He'll go to shore out on a tear
> And he'll buy some girl a gown.
> When the money's gone
> It's the same old song,
> "Get up Jack John, sit down!"
>
> [Chorus]
>
> When Jack gets old and weatherbeat,
> Too old to roam about,
> They'll let him stop in some rum shop
> Till eight bells calls him out.
>
> Then he'll raise his eyes up to the skies,
> Sayin' "Boys, we're homeward bound."
> When the money's gone
> It's the same old song,
> "Get up Jack John, sit down!"
>
> [Chorus]
> */
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Grog is one part rum to two parts water (at least in the British Navy of
1790 - 1840). Raw spirits (Whiskey) was only served to those who could
afford them (Officers and wealthy passengers).
There is a legend in the Royal Navy that after the Battle of Trafalgar,
where Lord Nelson was killed, he had asked before he died, to not throw
his body overboard as was the custom in those days.
His men and officers, having great respect for the Admiral put his body
in a keg of spirits (Brandy) and hoisted it aboard a fast Frigate bound
for Merry Old England with the news that the English had won the
greatest naval battle ever fought up to that time. Napoleon's combined
French and Spanish navy was either captured or destroyed
Well, some of the rude, crude below decks forecastle hands got wind of
the fact that there was a keg of spirits aboard and tapped into it from
time to time. There after Brandy became know in the Royal Navy as
"Nelson's Blood".
Yo Ho Ho and a Merry Christmas
Paddy
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