RUNNING DOWN TO CUBA
\nAs sung by Joseph<\/p>\n
Difficult to tell what the history of this one is.\u00a0 Stan Hugill stated that it was a chantey for “doing nothing at all” in which the sailors might stomp on the deck three times after\u00a0singing the response line either for fun or as a passive-aggresive manner of showing their displeasure.\u00a0 Whatever the actual history for it was, it makes a good pub song!<\/p>\n
Running down to Cuba for a load of sugar, ‘Way, me boys, for Cuba!<\/em><\/strong> Running down to Cuba with a press of sail\u2026 Oh my God! How the winds do blow\u2026 Oh, I’ve got a gal about nine feet tall\u2026 Yes, that\u2019s my gal and her name is Eliza\u2026 Can she cook and can she clean\u2026 Oh she can love and she can bake\u2026 That\u2019s my gal, she can dance the Fandango\u2026 Load the sugar and homeward go\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUNNING DOWN TO CUBA As sung by Joseph Difficult to tell what the history of this one is.\u00a0 Stan Hugill stated that it was a chantey for “doing nothing at all” in which the sailors might stomp on the deck three times after\u00a0singing the response line either for fun or as a passive-aggresive manner of […]<\/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-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/78"}],"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=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n‘Way, me boys, for Cuba!<\/em><\/strong>
\nMake her run, you lime-juice squeezers,
\nRunning down to Cuba.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Make her run, you lime-juice squeezers,<\/em><\/strong>
\n Running down to Cuba.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFlinging the water all over the rail…<\/p>\n
\nRunning on south from the ice and snow\u2026<\/p>\n
\nShe sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall\u2026<\/p>\n
\nYou can guess where she gives me a-rise-a\u2026<\/p>\n
\nCan she play the tambourine\u2026<\/p>\n
\nShe can slap my ass while she bakes me a corn cake\u2026<\/p>\n
\nCheeks like a melon, tastes sweet as a mango\u2026<\/p>\n
\n‘Cause Mr. May, he told me so\u2026<\/p>\n