{"id":714,"date":"2013-08-20T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:15:37","slug":"the-hog-eye-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=714","title":{"rendered":"The Hog-Eye Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

This song was a pumping chantey although Stan Hugill wrote that it was more popular as a “stamp and go” capstan chantey, much like “What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor”.\u00a0 This song is an example of many that crossed into use on land either as a work song in the cotton fields or at work along the railways.\u00a0 A “navvy” was a term applied to sailors who found work on the railways when unable to find it at sea.\u00a0 The older version of the song does not refer to a navvy but instead uses a racist term I prefer not to perpetuate in cases such as these.<\/p>\n

We used to\u00a0sing it far too up-tempo for a real work song, for the sake of the crowd.\u00a0 Of late we’ve taken inspiration by the singing of John Roberts, slowing the speed down a bit and adding instrumentation.\u00a0 Verses 3 and\u00a08 were composed by Joseph one evening on the fly many years ago; they were written down and stuck.\u00a0 Verse\u00a06 came from a bawdy poem often recited by a long time friend of ours, Mark Bosse.\u00a0 There are certainly many more verses, some old, some new.<\/p>\n

Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n

\"Baulk-Road\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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1) Oh, hand me down me riding cane,
\nFor I’m off to see\u00a0Miss Sally Jane.<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nWith a hog-eye<\/strong><\/em>
\nRailroad navvy with his hog-eye<\/strong><\/em>
\nRow the boat\u00a0ashore\u00a0with a hog-eye, oh<\/strong><\/em>
\nShe wants the hog-eye man<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2) Now, it’s who’s been here since I’ve been gone,
\nBut a railroad navvy with his sea boots on.<\/p>\n

3) I spend me money, I do as she please,
\nBut another Jack\u2019s here while I\u2019m on the seas.<\/p>\n

4) You see Sally in the garden, shelling peas,
\nHer golden hair hanging down to her knees.<\/p>\n

5) Eliza’s in the parlor, sitting on his knee,
\nKissing her sailor come home from sea.<\/p>\n

6) There\u2019s Paul in the bathroom, sitting on the can,
\nGently beating on his little old man.<\/p>\n

7) Jenny’s\u00a0in the kitchen making duff,
\nAnd the cheeks of \u2018er ass go chuff, chuff, chuff.<\/p>\n

8) Oh if Sally lov\u2019d me, t\u2019weren\u2019t a whore no more,
\nI\u2019d kick back an\u2019 go on off to sea no more.<\/p>\n

9) It\u2019s on a hog ship with a hog-eye crew,
\nHog-eye mate and a skipper too.<\/p>\n

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This song was a pumping chantey although Stan Hugill wrote that it was more popular as a “stamp and go” capstan chantey, much like “What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor”.\u00a0 This song is an example of many that crossed into use on land either as a work song in the cotton fields or […]<\/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-714","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions\/4861"}],"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=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}