{"id":8336,"date":"2019-05-01T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:57:19","slug":"talcahuano-gals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8336","title":{"rendered":"Talcahuano Gals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Talcahuano_Gals.png\" 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\/Talcahuano_Gals.mp3\"><br \/>\nTalcahuano Gals &#8211; Click To Play <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n This is an alternative version of the English sea chantey &#8220;Spanish Ladies.&#8221; It refers to a ship off the coast of Chile. Camilla and i will be sailing on the Queen Mary 2 this month where I will be giving two lectures and a Q &amp; A. Happy May!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\n[G] Oh I&#8217;ve been a sea-cook, and [C]I&#8217;ve been a clipperman<br \/>\n[D] I can sing, I can dance, I can walk the jib-boom<br \/>\n[G]I can carve a good scrimshaw and [C]cut a fine figure<br \/>\n[G]Whenever I get in the ship&#8217;s [D]fo\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;c\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;sle [G]room<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar like true-born young sailors<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar on deck or below<br \/>\nUntil we see bottom inside the two sinkers<br \/>\nAnd straight up the channel to Huasco we&#8217;ll go<br \/>\nCHORUS<br \/>\nI was in Talcahuano last year on a clipper<br \/>\nI bought some gold brooches for the gals in the Bay<br \/>\nI bought me a pipe and they called it a meerscum<br \/>\nAnd it melted like butter on a hot shiny day<br \/>\nCHORUS<br \/>\nI went to a dance one night in old Tumbes<br \/>\nThere was plenty of gals there as fine as you&#8217;d wish<br \/>\nThere was one pretty maiden a-chewing tobacco<br \/>\nJust like a young kitten a-chewing fresh fish<br \/>\nCHORUS<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a health to the gals of old Talcahuano<br \/>\nA health to the maidens of far-off Maui<br \/>\nAnd let you be merry, don&#8217;t be melancholy<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t marry youse all, or in pokey I&#8217;d be<br \/>\nCHORUS X2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Talcahuano Gals &#8211; Click To Play This is an alternative version of the English sea chantey &#8220;Spanish Ladies.&#8221; It refers to a ship off the coast of Chile. Camilla and i will be sailing on the Queen Mary 2 this month where I will be giving two lectures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talcahuano Gals&#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":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8336","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\/8336","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=8336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8336\/revisions\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}