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    Quote Originally Posted by Marian Gray View Post
    #21, I'd always go down fighting Roger that's my mantra
    Oh! dear I have awoken the Glasgee kiss, now i am scuppered. R

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    Worth a look at the 2014 thread - Re: Jack Speak.

    https://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/...84=#post156869

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    #24... Translation for scuppered , Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ,sung to music if required . Not the crude translation that Cappys going to give. Cheers JS
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    Then we Fiddles that would not play, mainly dinning room and galley.
    Strap up which contained no such things, and plate powder for silver.
    Silver king without a crown, and day watch that was for any hours.
    Then Banjo rig for officers dress code.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

    Life is too short to blend in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j.sabourn View Post
    #24... Translation for scuppered , Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ,sung to music if required . Not the crude translation that Cappys going to give. Cheers JS
    believe that was the peggys song ....bewitched buggered and bewildered...cappy

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    There was Port and there was Starboard,
    But they used to call Port: Larboard.
    And the two dogs on the fo'csle held the chain.
    Then there's For'd and there's Aft
    Which is (from A'beam,) A'baft,
    And the Mizzen never stands A'fore the Main.


    There were Farmers (without pigs,)
    A-rabs, Lascars, Schooner Rigs,
    Lots of (right hand,) feeding after Ramadan.
    There was Panama and Mokes,
    And a mob of red eyed blokes
    From the 12 to 4 Watch, eyeing the Blackpan.


    You could Heave To, Broach, Careen,
    Two of fat and one of lean
    Hungry Harrisons' (from out of Liverpool.)
    Or 'buff with black on top'
    Where the Bosun's name was Bop,
    And both his thumbs were Fids, (a splicing tool.)


    You could 'Stand By' or 'Turn To'
    Take the Trick from twelve til two'
    Rig a Jumbo or just Holystone the Deck;
    Chippin'ammer 'cross the Atlantic,
    Whitelead'n'tallow the Triatic,
    Watch the Stemhead break the ice up near Quebec.


    There were Tabnabs, there was Scouse,
    Scuppers, Bulwarks, a Wheelhouse,
    And drums were lashed A'baft the Lazerette.
    You could 'Skin Out' of a Tanker,
    Paint the Truck a'top the Spanker,
    Soogie Funnels, hung on Gantlines, Fleet by Fleet.


    You could 'Sign On' and 'Pay Off',
    Turn your head away and cough;
    Get the 'Channels' when the orders were Lands End.
    Shackle to a Samson Post,
    Blame the Liverpool Man's Ghost,
    Or there's always an Allotment you could send.



    There were Ratlines and Crosstrees,
    No Blue Jeans, just Dungarees;
    Fifteen hundred 'Girls' for hire down in Recife.
    There were 'Plummers' down the 'Mouth',
    One of Ropner's heading south,
    Where the mail would go ashore at Tenerife.


    There were Shifting Boards and Dunnage
    And you knew the average tonnage
    Of a Port Boat, steaming by at Fifteen Knots.
    The Welsh Donkeyman from Hants
    And the slack in Trimmer's pants,
    And the 4 to 8 Watch, stinking in their cots.


    Shonky Bum Boats at Port Said,
    Gun'ls, Gimbals and Redlead;
    Roaring Forties, Round the Horn and Abadan.
    There were Palm and Needle Whippings,
    Lots of Mother Carey's chickens,
    And a Fine Bone China Tea Set, from Japan.


    There were Doxfords and Twin Screws,
    And the strangest looking stews
    Came from Galleys' where the cook was often called
    Names that questioned if his Dad
    Had been married, or just mad,
    Or just needed all his tackle overhauled.


    The Red Duster, Carrick Bend,
    Take a turn on the Drum End;
    Starboard Helm, now, Steady As She Goes.
    Port Side Bitts, Pacific Swells,
    1 to 6 HEAVE, Seven Bells;
    Get that Stopper on, LOOK LIVELY ON YOUR TOES.


    Stockholm Tar and Cleaning Tanks,
    Liberty Ships and Dogger banks,
    Shifting Ship round to the Royal Edward Dock.
    Monkey's Fist, Splice with the Lay,
    First and Last, Logged two day's pay,
    Last Pierhead Jump before She's through the Lock.


    Hatchboards, Coamings, Bosun's Chair,
    Bowsed right in under the Flare,
    New Year's 16 Bells (in Denmark's Esbjerg Sound.)
    Mouse that Hook and Masthead Light,
    Malacca Straits, Australian Bight,
    Sixteen Indian Rupees to the Pound.


    Oakum, Sextant, Fo'csle Head;
    Maracaibo, Swing the Lead;
    Drop the Pilot, Single Up and Spit a'lee.
    Capstan Full Strength, On the Rake,
    Sounds that sailors used to make;
    Merchant Seamen's sounds that floated on the sea.


    All these strange sounds; now they're gone;
    Merchant Seamen lost their song;
    The Iron Ships rust; the Wooden Men quietly gaze,
    Reminiscing in their beer,
    "Remember: Elson...Hopton...Kear...??"
    "I wonder what they're doing, now-a-days."



    Reg Kear © 1992. Australia

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    well shown brian ......a great read ....a touch of humour here and there as well......very entertaining ....cappy

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    #29, that just about covers it and awakens memories of yore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roger millard View Post
    oh! Dear i have awoken the glasgee kiss, now i am scuppered. R
    ropo ffs

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    From my childhood...
    Tab nabs
    Teddy oggies ?
    C.P.R. cake . Battenburg
    One hand to the ship - hold the banister
    'Catch my hand' . Dad's version of ,' hold my hand'
    Time to go up aloft (time for bed)
    Brenda
    Said all of these to our children and now g/children

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