| Author | Topic: Add: Liberty for the Sailors | |
| dmcg | Posted - 27 Apr 04 - 04:19 pm | |
Lasses, call your lads ashore, Lasses, call your lads ashore, Lasses, call your lads ashore, There's liberty for the sailors. Liberty and money free, Liberty and money free, Liberty and money free, There's liberty for the sailors. Let the lubbers lie aboard, Let the lubbers lie aboard, Let the lubbers lie aboard, Because they're nobbut tailors. But lasses, call your lads etc. Source: John Stokoe, 1899, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Walter Scott Ltd, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Notes: The music shows this is in common time, but it is either 3/4 or 6/8; I have chosen 6/8. | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 02 May 04 - 04:49 pm | |
Two more verses are in Roy Palmer's The Valiant Sailor (Cambridge, 1973, p. 54): 2. The bellman's called it round the town And far and near the news has flown. Each wife seeks out her last new gown, There's liberty for the sailors. 3. Now every lass will get her lad And every bairn will see its dad And many a mother's heart be glad, There's liberty for the sailors. | ||