{"id":7051,"date":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T19:03:00","slug":"ruben-ranzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7051","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Ranzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Ranzo_in_Oilskins.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"420\" alt=\"Ranzo_in_Oilskins.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\/Ruben_Ranzo.mp3\">Ruben Ranzo<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">Ruben Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>Ruben Ranzo, an inexperienced sailor is shanghaied aboard a whaling ship. The captain&#8217;s daughter takes pity on him, teaches him navigation and the finer points of sailing, marries him and he becomes the finest sailor on the seas.<\/p>\n<p>It has been suggested that Ranzo is a corruption of the name Lorenzo. American whaling ships often recruited Portugese seamen in the Azores, and Ranzo may have been one of these.<\/p>\n<p>* The holy stone resembled a vacuum cleaner in shape, but weighed around twenty-five pounds. A round stone was at the end of a handle.  Sand was put on the deck and sailors scrubbed to get the gunk out of the wood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nOh, poor old Ruben Ranzo,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nOh, poor old Ruben Ranzo,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Ranzo was no sailor,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nHe was a New York tailor<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>He was a New York tailor<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nShanghaied aboard a whaler,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>They put him holy-stonin&#8217;  *<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAnd cared not for his groanin&#8217;<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>They gave him lashes thirty<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nBecause he was so dirty<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>They gave him lashes twenty<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s twenty more than plenty<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>Ah Ranzo nearly fainted<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nWhen his back with oil was painted<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>The captain gave him thirty<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nHis daughter begged for mercy<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>She took him to her cabin<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAnd tried to ease his moanin&#8217;<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>Oh, she give him rum and water,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAnd a bit more than she ought to,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>She gave him education<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAnd taught him navigation<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>She made him the best sailor<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nOn board that New York whaler<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>He married the captain&#8217;s daughter<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAnd still sails on salt water<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s known wherever them whale-fish blow,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<br \/>\nAs the toughest whaler on the go,<br \/>\nRanzo, me boys, Ranzo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Ruben Ranzo Ruben Ranzo Ruben Ranzo, an inexperienced sailor is shanghaied aboard a whaling ship. The captain&#8217;s daughter takes pity on him, teaches him navigation and the finer points of sailing, marries him and he becomes the finest sailor on the seas. It has been suggested that Ranzo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruben Ranzo&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8673,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}