{"id":746,"date":"2013-08-21T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=746"},"modified":"2024-05-20T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:13:44","slug":"drive-sorrows-away","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=746","title":{"rendered":"Drive Sorrows Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional English\u00a0drinking song with origins dating back to the late 17th century and\u00a0made popular again by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copper_Family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copper Family<\/a>, where they call it by its traditional name &#8211; &#8220;Thousand or More&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0Bright Phoebus, as I understand it, refers to one of the original\u00a0titans in Greek mythology and is an oblique reference to the rising moon at the glooming.\u00a0 In the style of Pleasant and Delightful, the second line becomes the chorus; you sing the second phrase three times and then finish with the whole of the second line.\u00a0 New verses were composed and added by Danny Spooner and Joseph Morneault, June 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1174\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Danny-and-Jos..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1174\" class=\" wp-image-1174 \" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Danny-and-Jos.-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Spooner and Jos. Morneault - June 2013. The picture is a bit hazy but the memory is not!\" width=\"210\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Danny-and-Jos.-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Danny-and-Jos.-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Danny-and-Jos.-624x613.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Spooner and Jos. Morneault &#8211; June 2013. The picture is a bit hazy but the memory is not!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the current generations of the Copper Family singing this wonderful, full song.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8qq8VeoPIC0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IF36bsMCJEQ?si=ofG1LJpVvyrQsr1h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our life passes on so cheerful and gay,<br \/>\nSince we found a new song to drive sorrow a-way.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chorus:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>Sorrows a-way!\u00a0 Sorrows a-way!\u00a0 Sorrows a-way!<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>We found a new song to drive sorrows a-way!<\/i><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Come see we bold sailors as we frolic and play,<br \/>\nSince we all has full bumpers, we was paid off today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Paid off today!\u00a0 Paid off today!\u00a0 Paid off today!<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Since we all has full bumpers, we was paid off today!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bright Phoebus*\u00a0he rises\u00a0so high up in the sky<br \/>\nWith his red rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you ask for my credit you will find I have none<br \/>\nWith me bottle and friends you will find me at home<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m not rich and neither am I poor,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m as happy as those what has thousands in store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a health to all sailors and God keep &#8217;em\u00a0free,<br \/>\nFrom all the dangers of the oceans where they oftimes must be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Phoebus was a familiar name for the Greco-Roman god of the sun Apollo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional English\u00a0drinking song with origins dating back to the late 17th century and\u00a0made popular again by the Copper Family, where they call it by its traditional name &#8211; &#8220;Thousand or More&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0Bright Phoebus, as I understand it, refers to one of the original\u00a0titans in Greek mythology and is an oblique reference to the rising moon at [&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-746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746","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=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6329,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions\/6329"}],"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=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}