{"id":661,"date":"2013-07-31T12:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2018-03-01T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:20:26","slug":"pay-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=661","title":{"rendered":"Pay Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a ship came into port it needed to offload its cargo, which involved longshoremen or stevedores.\u00a0 The captains or masters of the vessels would promise pay as soon as the job was done, but sometimes the ship would slip its mooring or dockside in the night, thus avoiding paying the stevedores.\u00a0 This song can thus be seen as a formal complaint or union expression.\u00a0 Composed by Lydia A. Parrish, (c)1942, Hollis Music, Inc, NY, NY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me, pay me<br \/>\nPay me my money down<br \/>\nPay me or go to jail<br \/>\nPay me my money down<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I thought I heard our captain say<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nTomorrow is our salary day<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Soon as the boat was clear of the bar<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nHe knocked me down with the end of a spar<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>How I wish that the boss was blind<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nI wouldn\u2019t go to work until a-half past nine<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>Wish I was the boss&#8217; son,<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down,<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nSit in the house and drink good rum,<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nChorus:<\/p>\n<p>I wish I was the captain\u2019s son<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down,<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nSit on the bank and watch the work done,<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<\/p>\n<p>You Pay me, you owe me!<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nPay me or you\u2019re going to jail!<br \/>\n<b><i>Pay me my money down!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a ship came into port it needed to offload its cargo, which involved longshoremen or stevedores.\u00a0 The captains or masters of the vessels would promise pay as soon as the job was done, but sometimes the ship would slip its mooring or dockside in the night, thus avoiding paying the stevedores.\u00a0 This song can [&hellip;]<\/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-661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/4910"}],"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=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}