{"id":6967,"date":"1996-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1996-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:22:17","slug":"golden-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6967","title":{"rendered":"Golden Vanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Golden.jpg\" height=\"175\" width=\"220\" alt=\"Golden.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?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\/Golden.mp3\">Golden Vanity<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">There were a lot of sea chanties that dealt with the<br \/>\nsubject of the Captain&#039;s daughter. Can you imagine<br \/>\nthe desire that the common sailors must have felt for<br \/>\nthe only pretty woman on board ship, during a long<br \/>\nvoyage? They must have nearly gone mad.<\/p>\n<p>In the same manner, the Captain would have guarded his<br \/>\ndaughter with an overwhelming sense of protective jealousy.<br \/>\nThat&#039;s what happens in this story. After using the poor<br \/>\ncabin boy to do his dirty work, the cruel Captain leaves<br \/>\nhim to drown, thus saving his daughter for himself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ve loved this song, ever since learning it at the<br \/>\nOld Town School of Folk Music in the late &#039;50s. Although<br \/>\nI performed it at the coffee houses on Rush Street in Chicago,<br \/>\nI never got around to recording it until now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nC     <\/p>\n<p>Oh there was a lofty ship and a lofty ship was she<\/p>\n<p>F                                              G<\/p>\n<p>And the name of that ship it was the Golden Vanity<\/p>\n<p>C                                              Am<\/p>\n<p>And she feared she would be taken by the Turkish Enemy<\/p>\n<p>F                  G             C     Am<\/p>\n<p>As she sailed on the lowland, lowland low<\/p>\n<p>F                  G            C<\/p>\n<p>As she sailed on the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>Up stepped a little cabin boy, a cabin boy was he<\/p>\n<p>And he said to the Captain what will you give to me<\/p>\n<p>If I sneak alongside the Turkish Enemy<\/p>\n<p>And I sink her in the lowland, lowland low<\/p>\n<p>And I sink her in the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>Oh I will give you silver and I will give you gold<\/p>\n<p>And the hand of my daughter your bonnie bride will be<\/p>\n<p>If you&#039;ll sneak alongside of the Turkish Enemy<\/p>\n<p>And you&#039;ll sink her in the lowland lowland low<\/p>\n<p>And you&#039;ll sink her in the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>So he jumped overboard and overboard jumped he<\/p>\n<p>And he swam alongside of the Turkish Enemy<\/p>\n<p>And with a little drilling tool he boar-ed holes three<\/p>\n<p>And he sank her in the lowland lowland low<\/p>\n<p>He sank her in the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>Then he turned himself around and back again swam he<\/p>\n<p>&#039;Til he came to the side of the Golden Vanity<\/p>\n<p>But the Captain would not heed, for his daughter he did need<\/p>\n<p>And he left him in the lowland lowland low<\/p>\n<p>He left him in the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>Well his shipmates brought him out, but upon the deck he died<\/p>\n<p>And they wrapped him in his blanket that was so soft and wide<\/p>\n<p>And they cast him overboard and he drifted with the tide<\/p>\n<p>And he sank beneath the lowland lowland low<\/p>\n<p>He sank beneath the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>And he sank beneath the lowland lowland low<\/p>\n<p>He sank beneath the lowland sea<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1998 McGuinn Music &#8211; Roger McGuinn\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Golden Vanity There were a lot of sea chanties that dealt with the subject of the Captain&#039;s daughter. Can you imagine the desire that the common sailors must have felt for the only pretty woman on board ship, during a long voyage? They must have nearly gone mad. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=6967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Golden Vanity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}