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Shanties From The Seven Seas,
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Shanties From The Seven Seas
RATGLIFFE HIGHWAY
fair antiquity, being extant long before the days of the Western Ocean Packets. Of course Ralcliffe Highway was known to the East Indiaman long before the Packet Rat or the Southspainer came into existence.
An alternative way of singing verse 5 is:
In a snug little tavern, oh, soon wc did moor, I bought me some rum for this young Highway whore, She told me her fancyman wuz at sea for a spell, So I gave her me flipper an' wc wuz both bound to Hell.
Doerflinger gives an unusual verse from the singing of Captain Patrick Tayluer:
I'll bring you silk dresses and all that I know, Fine gold rings and stones from the Islands, you know, I'll bring you home plenty of money to spend. If you'll only wait till I do return.
The pubs Doerflinger's other shantyman (William Laurie oi
Sailors' Snug Harbor) gives are the 'Blue Anchor' and 'Brown Bear'.
Ratcliffe Highway, in the old days, was a tough quarter, full of
pubs and 'dives', its pavements cluttered with drunks, pimps, crimps, and prostitutes, but to the sailorman its garish delights were some- thing to look forward to when on an upper tops'1 yard sail-clawing off the pitch of old Cape Stiff. Just the place to spend a pound— and there were many Pollies and Sallies awaiting to help Sailor John spend it with gusto. Nowadays, this famous highway is still there, but under another name. It is called, merely. The Highway. Getting back to the halyard shanty Blow the Man Down we find
that as well as London's Ratcliffe Highway other streets of various sailor-towns are sung about in most versions. Paradise Street and Great Howard Street were both in Liverpool and still are, although since being bombed during the war there is not much left of Paradise Street as such. Paradise Street was to the sailor another earthly Paradise, where after a long voyage he would stroll ashore, no man his master, money in his pockets to burn, and heading for one of the 'dives' would sort out, or rather be sorted out by, a fancy woman, who would help him spend his hard-earned wages in double-quick time. Great Howard Street was the home of the illustrious crimp and boarding-master Paddy West, of whom more anon. Winchester Street, which is in South Shields, was a different kettle offish accord- ing to Terry, for here, 'in the old days was the aristocratic quarter where only persons of high distinction—such as shipowners and "Southspainer" skippers—lived.' The six major versions oi Blow the Man Down are as follows: 157
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