A capstan chantey in origin, with some evidence of it being used at the pumps, but we sing it as a forebitter, rearranging the verses and presenting it more for a pub audience. A “Yellow Girl” is an odd slang sometimes referring to an Asian girl, a mulatto girl or, in the case below, a mixed race girl of Spanish and local native blood. Callao is an old port city (1537 founding date) of mid-coast Peru, within shouting distance of Lima. The verse of falling on the feather bed is my own composition to fill out the story.<\/p>\n
Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n
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Oh, once I met a lovely girl way down in Callao Chorus: \/: Doodle let me go, me girls, doodle let me go<\/i><\/strong> She took me in she gave me gin, she danced me on the floor. Chorus<\/p>\n She swung her hips, she tripped her feet, she winked her sassy eye. Chorus<\/p>\n She chased me \u2018round the sofa, boys, wasn\u2019t it a show! Chorus<\/p>\n We fell upon her feather bed, our clothes all scattered ’round. Chorus<\/p>\n Well the crew is drunk, the mate is sunk, and the Old Man\u2019s got a load. Chorus<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A capstan chantey in origin, with some evidence of it being used at the pumps, but we sing it as a forebitter, rearranging the verses and presenting it more for a pub audience. A “Yellow Girl” is an odd slang sometimes referring to an Asian girl, a mulatto girl or, in the case below, 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-380","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380\/revisions\/6189"}],"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=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHurrah, me yeller girls, doodle let me go!<\/i><\/strong>
\nIn a bawdyhouse called Madam Gashee\u2019s, a place ye all should go.
\nHurrah, me yeller girls, doodle let me go!<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Hurrah, me yeller girls, doodle let me go! <\/i><\/strong>:\/<\/p>\n
\nWell being just a sailor lad I stayed around for more!<\/p>\n
\nShe told me she\u2019d a room upstair, a place where we could lie.<\/p>\n
\nShe grabbed me by the bobstay, and she wouldn’t let me go!<\/p>\n
\nShe did to me such naughty things, the world went ’round and ’round.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll throw a line \u2018round Madam Gashee\u2019s and take them all in tow.<\/p>\n