{"id":6949,"date":"1998-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:02:45","slug":"handsome-cabin-boy-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6949","title":{"rendered":"Handsome Cabin Boy, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Cabin.jpg\" alt=\"Cabin.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"190\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Cabin.mp3\">Handsome Cabin Boy, The<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">A popular broadside ballad of shipboard carryings-on.<br \/>\n This version from Louis Killen; it derives from that sung by one of the<br \/>\n greatest ballad singers of all times, Jeannie Robertson of Aberdeen.<br \/>\nThe sailors made up these tales to amuse themselves on their long<br \/>\nvoyages.<\/p>\n<p>The guitar on this is a Rickenbacker 730L\/12 acoustic, in two<br \/>\ninversions, E and with a capo on the second fret in the D position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nE                                                D        E<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s of a pretty female as you will understand<br \/>\nHer mind was set on rambling into a foreign land<br \/>\nShe dressed herself in man&#8217;s attire and boldly did appear<br \/>\nAnd she engaged with a captain to serve him for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The captain&#8217;s lady being on board, she seemed in great joy<br \/>\nTo think that the captain had engaged such a handsome cabin boy<br \/>\nAnd many&#8217;s the time she cuddled and kissed, and she would have<br \/>\nliked to toy<br \/>\nBut &#8217;twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin<br \/>\nboy<\/p>\n<p>Her cheeks they were like roses, her hair was all a-curl<br \/>\nThe sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girl<br \/>\nBut eating the captain&#8217;s biscuit, well, her color it did destroy<br \/>\nAnd the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s doctor, dearest doctor, the cabin boy did cry<br \/>\nMy time has come, I am undone, surely I must die<br \/>\nThe doctor ran with all his might, a-smiling at the fun<br \/>\nFor to think a cabin boy could have a daughter or a son<\/p>\n<p>Now when the sailors heard the joke, they all began to stare<br \/>\nThe child belongs to none of us, they solemnly did swear<br \/>\nAnd the lady to the captain said &#8216;My dear I wish you joy<br \/>\nFor it was either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Come all of you bold fellows and we&#8217;ll drink success to trade<br \/>\nAnd likewise to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid<br \/>\nAnd if the wars should rise again, us sailors to destroy<br \/>\nWell, here&#8217;s hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin<br \/>\nboy.<br \/>\n\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd 1998 McGuinn Music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Roger McGuinn\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Handsome Cabin Boy, The A popular broadside ballad of shipboard carryings-on. This version from Louis Killen; it derives from that sung by one of the greatest ballad singers of all times, Jeannie Robertson of Aberdeen. 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