{"id":7417,"date":"2012-03-01T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:56:48","slug":"paddy-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7417","title":{"rendered":"Paddy West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Paddy_West.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/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\/Paddy_West.mp3\">Paddy West &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nA.L. Lloyd sang Paddy West in 1960 on his and Ewan MacColl&#8217;s Tradition Records album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blow-Boys-Ewan-Maccoll\/dp\/B0000058QN\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1330205846&amp;sr=8-1\">Blow Boys Blow<\/a>. He commented in the sleeve notes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr West is a redoubtable figure in the folklore of the sea. He was a Liverpool boarding-house keeper in the latter days of sail, who provided ship captains with crews, as a side-line. He would guarantee that every man he supplied had crossed the Line and been round the Horn several times. In order to say so with a clear conscience, he gave greenhorns a curious course in seamanship, described in this jesting ballad. It was a great favourite with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scouse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Liverpool) sailors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paddy was a resourceful fellow who, with his wife, ran a home school for novice sailors. His methods were rather crude (like having his wife throw a bucket of water on their students to provide &#8216;sea spray&#8217;)  but together they created a simulation of real conditions that could instill a sense of confidence in the lads that would most likely help them on an actual ocean voyage.<\/p>\n<p>I accompanied myself on my Martin HD-7 seven string guitar and an English concertina that my wife Camilla gave me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[G] As I was walkin&#8217; down [Am] London Street,<br \/>\n[D] I come to Paddy West&#8217;s [G] house,<br \/>\nHe give me a dish of [C] American [G] hash;<br \/>\nAnd he called it Liverpool [C] scouse,<br \/>\n[G] He said &#8220;There&#8217;s a ship and she&#8217;s [C] takin&#8217; [G] hands,<br \/>\nAnd on her you must [C] sign,<br \/>\n[G] Ah the mate&#8217;s a  tyrant, the [Am] captain&#8217;s worse,<br \/>\n[D] But she will do you [G] fine.&#8221;<br \/>\nChorus:<br \/>\n[G] Take off yer dungaree [C] jacket,<br \/>\n[G] And give yerself a [C] rest,<br \/>\n[G] And we&#8217;ll think on them cold [Am] nor&#8217;westers<br \/>\nThat we [D] had at Paddy [G] West&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>2. When we had finished our dinner lads,<br \/>\nThe winds began to blow.<br \/>\nPaddy sent me to the attic,<br \/>\nThe main-royal for to stow,<br \/>\nBut when I got to the attic,<br \/>\nNo main-royal could I find,<br \/>\nSo I turned myself around,<br \/>\nAnd I furled the window blind.<br \/>\nChorus:<\/p>\n<p>3. Now Paddy he pipes all hands on deck,<br \/>\nTheir stations for to man.<br \/>\nHis wife she stood in the doorway,<br \/>\nA bucket in her hand;<br \/>\nAnd Paddy he cries, &#8220;Now let &#8216;er rip!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd she throws the water our way,<br \/>\nCryin&#8217; &#8220;Clew in the fore t&#8217;gan&#8217;sl, boys,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s takin on the spray!&#8221;<br \/>\nChorus:<\/p>\n<p>4. Now seein&#8217; she&#8217;s headed south&#8217;ard,<br \/>\nTo Frisco she was bound;<br \/>\nPaddy he takes a length of rope,<br \/>\nAnd he lays it on the ground,<br \/>\nWe all steps over, and back again,<br \/>\nHe says to me &#8220;That&#8217;s fine,<br \/>\nIf they ask you were you ever at sea<br \/>\nYou say you crossed the line.&#8221;<br \/>\nChorus:<\/p>\n<p>5. There&#8217;s just one thing for you to do<br \/>\nBefore you sail away,<br \/>\nStep around the table,<br \/>\nWhere the bullock&#8217;s horn do lay<br \/>\nAnd if they ask &#8220;Were you ever at sea?&#8221;<br \/>\nSay &#8220;Ten times &#8217;round the Horn&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;ll think you&#8217;re a natural sailor lad<br \/>\nFrom the day that you was born.<br \/>\nChorus: X 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Paddy West &#8211; Click To Play A.L. Lloyd sang Paddy West in 1960 on his and Ewan MacColl&#8217;s Tradition Records album Blow Boys Blow. He commented in the sleeve notes: &#8220;Mr West is a redoubtable figure in the folklore of the sea. He was a Liverpool boarding-house keeper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paddy West&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren","category-irishbritish","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417","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=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8793,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}