Sailors were always getting themselves into trouble ashore… It seems that at sea they were rather sly and sharp witted while once they step on land they would make all sorts of half-brained decisions!\u00a0 Here is a good example…\u00a0 A song once popular in the Irish singing circuit and is claimed to date back to the 18th century, although I have NO evidence of that at this time.<\/p>\n
Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n
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Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town Says\u00a0Jack to himself, “Now what can this be? Jack gave her a pound and he thought nothing strange Now to get the child christened was Jack’s first intent Says the parson to Jack, “That’s a mighty queer name” Now all you young sailors who roam on the town Sailors were always getting themselves into trouble ashore… It seems that at sea they were rather sly and sharp witted while once they step on land they would make all sorts of half-brained decisions!\u00a0 Here is a good example…\u00a0 A song once popular in the Irish singing circuit and is claimed to date back to […]<\/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-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/4918"}],"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=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd she was a damsel who skipped up and down
\nSays the damsel to Jack as she passed him by
\n“Would you care for to purchase some
\nqueer bungle rye roddy rye?”
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBut the finest of whiskey from far Germany
\nSmuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
\nAnd the name that it goes by is
\nquare bungle rye roddy rye?”
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nshe said, “Hold now the basket till I\u00a0run for your change”
\nJack\u00a0peeked in the basket and a baby did spy
\n“Oh, bedamnit!” says Jack, “This<\/em> is
\nquare bungle rye roddy rye?”
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFor to get the child christened, to the parson he went
\nSays the parson to Jack, “What will he go by?”
\n“Oh bedamnit”, says Jack, “Call him
\nquare bungle rye roddy rye!”
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSays Jack to the parson, “It’s a queer way he came;
\nSmuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly
\nAnd the name that he’ll go by is
\nquare bungle rye roddy rye!”
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nBeware of those damsels who skip up and down
\nTake a\u00a0peek in their basket as they pass you by
\nOr else they may sell you some
\nquare bungle rye roddy rye!
\nFol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong>
\nIt’s Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"