{"id":2156,"date":"2014-05-31T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=2156"},"modified":"2014-06-02T06:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:33:35","slug":"a-sailor-aint-a-sailor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=2156","title":{"rendered":"A Sailor Ain’t A Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a wonderful ditty written by the even more wonderful Tom Lewis<\/a>.\u00a0 It has taken on a life of its own… The Ancient Mariner Chanteymen <\/a>used to sing it often and once, during a performance, one of the Ancient Mariners drummers (Todd Kennedy) made the quip in my ear “and if you see a sailin’ ship it might bite yer ass!”<\/em>\u00a0 I was quite<\/em> amused and began to tease that line into our Monday night shows where it caught like a brush fire and took on a life of it’s own, bleeding over into other venues, usually reserved for the very last chorus and its repeat – I’m so very<\/em> sorry, Tom!
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My father often told me, when I was just a lad,
\nA sailor’s life was very hard, the food was always bad,
\nBut now I’ve joined the navy, I’m on board a man-o-war,
\nAnd now I find a sailor ain’t a sailor any more!<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nDon’t haul on the rope, don’t climb up the mast,
\nIf you see a sailing-ship it might be your last,
\nGet your ‘civvies ready for another run-ashore,
\nA sailor ain’t a sailor, ain’t a sailor any more!
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\nThe ‘killick’ of our mess, he says we’ve had it soft,
\nIt wasn’t like this in his day, when he was up aloft,
\nWe like our bunks and sleeping-bags but what’s a hammock for?
\nSwinging from the deckhead or lying on the floor?<\/p>\n

They gave us an engine that first went up and down,
\nThen with more technology the engine went around,
\nWe’re good with steam and diesel but what’s a mainyard for?
\nA stoker ain’t a stoker with a shovel any more!<\/p>\n

They gave us an Aldiss Lamp, we can do it right,
\nThey gave us a radio, we signal day and night,
\nWe know our codes and ciphers but what’s a ‘sema’ for?
\nA ‘bunting-tosser’ doesn’t toss the bunting any more!<\/p>\n

They gave us a radar set to pierce the fog and gloom,
\nSo now the lookout’s sitting in a tiny darkened room,
\nLoran does navigation the Sonar says how deep,
\nThe Jimmy’s 3 sheets to the wind, the Skipper’s fast asleep.<\/p>\n

Two cans of beer a day, that’s your bleeding lot!
\nBut now we gets an extra two because they stopped The Tot,
\nSo, we’ll put on our civvy-clothes and find a pub ashore,
\nA sailor’s still a sailor, just like he was before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a wonderful ditty written by the even more wonderful Tom Lewis.\u00a0 It has taken on a life of its own… The Ancient Mariner Chanteymen used to sing it often and once, during a performance, one of the Ancient Mariners drummers (Todd Kennedy) made the quip in my ear “and if you see a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2156\/revisions\/2160"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}