{"id":245,"date":"2010-06-24T23:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"allie-go-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/allie-go-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Allie Go Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>From John Ferries (Gerries), South Shields, England<\/h5>\n<p>Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 039 00:00; Disc sides 084 00:00, 395 01:48; MS p. 03300-1<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As I went out one morning on the road to Clarence Dock<br \/>\nI spied an Irish sailor conversing with Tapscott<br \/>\nGood morning, Mister Tapscott, good morning, sir, said he<br \/>\nHave you got any ships bound for New York in the state of Amerikee?<em><br \/>\nchorus <\/em><br \/>\nTo me allie-go, allie-go, allie-go-day<br \/>\nLay me down ichigo, Mrs. McGay<br \/>\nLay me down ichigo, Mrs. McCooligan<br \/>\nJohnny go, whoo<br \/>\nFire away Fagan and bully for you.<\/li>\n<li>Oh it\u2019s yes, me bold sailor, why I\u2019ve got a ship or two<br \/>\nI\u2019ve got the <em>Johnny Walker<\/em>, likewise the <em>Kangaroo<\/em><br \/>\nI\u2019ve got the <em>Johnny Walker<\/em> and tomorrow she sets sail<br \/>\nIn all of the provisions we\u2019ve put aboard there\u2019s a bucket of yaller male.<\/li>\n<li>So it\u2019s bad luck to the <em>Josie Walker<\/em> and the day that she set sail<br \/>\nThe sailors got drunk, they broke open me trunk, and they stole me yaller male<br \/>\nI went and told the chief mate, says he, you go to Hell<br \/>\nYou son of a bitch, you\u2019ve got the itch, and I know it very well.<\/li>\n<li>Oh now we\u2019re landed in New York and workin\u2019 in a canal<br \/>\nGo home in one of your packet ships, oh no, I never shall<br \/>\nI\u2019ll go home on one of the White Star boats that goes by steam and sail<br \/>\nWith plenty of good American hash and plenty of yaller male.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Ferries (Gerries), South Shields, England Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 039 00:00; Disc sides 084 00:00, 395 01:48; MS p. 03300-1 As I went out one morning on the road to Clarence Dock I spied an Irish sailor conversing with Tapscott Good morning, Mister Tapscott, good morning, sir, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}