{"id":4054,"date":"2016-05-03T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4054"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:35:20","slug":"chaunticleer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=4054","title":{"rendered":"Chaunticleer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Rick E Spencer composition. \u00a0 \u00a0Similar in theme to <a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=338\">Jolly Roving Tar<\/a> but more detailed and grittier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We pulled into port on Saturday morning (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWith 9 months\u2019 pay we were ready for rolling (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd the New York women were ready for a week (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWith our pockets full of money we hit the street (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nThey said \u201cJohnny get up we missed you so.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cJohnny get up it\u2019s time to go.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen your hard-earned cash is gone<br \/>\nIt\u2019s \u201cget outta here Johnny let Jack sit down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said \u201cwhere have you been my sailor honey?\u201d (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\n\u201cWe missed your sweet lips and your money.\u201d (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s around the town in a very fine fashion (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nThey spent our money on our own sweet passions (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Now the boys and I was full of hell (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd the tricks of the old trade we all knew well (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nSo we made a ready vow that before the end (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWe\u2019d have on their house a sweet revenge (Johnny get up let\u2019s go).<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s back to the house on 14th Street (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWhere they promised us liquor and other fine treats (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nBut the boys and I went light on the swill (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nSeeing to it that the women all drank their fill (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s out we crept in the dark of the night (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nThey had breakfast in bed by the morning light (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nFor we filled their beds with a sailors\u2019 chowder (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nSeaweed, fish heads, dust, gunpowder (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>We took all their gear and it\u2019s out we run (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWe was back on the ship by the morning sun (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd we pulled out of port this Monday past (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nWith their fine, frilly underwear strung from the mast (Johnny get up let\u2019s go).<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Now all you women what own the street (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nAnd you live the lives of the indiscreet (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nTake my warning and beware (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<br \/>\nOf the boys of the good ship Chaunticleer. (Johnny get up let\u2019s go)<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Rick E Spencer composition. \u00a0 \u00a0Similar in theme to Jolly Roving Tar but more detailed and grittier. &nbsp; We pulled into port on Saturday morning (Johnny get up let\u2019s go) With 9 months\u2019 pay we were ready for rolling (Johnny get up let\u2019s go) And the New York women were ready for a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054","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=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4054\/revisions\/4055"}],"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=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}