{"id":250,"date":"2010-06-24T23:55:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"tally-i-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/tally-i-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Tally I O"},"content":{"rendered":"
From James Wright, Leith, Scotland<\/h5>\n

Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 052 08:40; Disc sides 112 03:23, 112A 02:02, 420 02:05; MS p. 03579<\/p>\n

Verses 1 to 3 and 10 are from James Wright. Verses 4 and 5 are from Cecil Sharp’s English Folk Chanteys<\/em> where they are attributed to Mr. Rapsey of Bridgewater. Verses 6-9 are from Stan Hugill’s Shanties From the Seven Seas<\/em> where they are attributed to Tobago Smith, one of Hugill’s Carribean singers.<\/p>\n

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  1. Tally I O was a jolly old soul
    \nTally I O, Tally I O
    \nThere was Tally I O was a jolly old soul
    \nSing Tally I O you know.<\/li>\n
  2. What shall I do with a long tally ho?<\/li>\n
  3. We’ll take him a shore and we’ll give him a run.<\/li>\n
  4. Oh now you forbid us to bid you adieu.<\/li>\n
  5. We\u2019re homeward bound to Bristol Town.<\/li>\n
  6. Oh old Sally Rackett of Kingston town
    \nI spent quite a packet on her new silk gown.<\/li>\n
  7. We loaded our packet with sugar an rum
    \nGoodbye to Jamaicy its galls and its sun.<\/li>\n
  8. We\u2019re bound to the nor\u2019ard to the ice and the snow
    \nWe\u2019re bound to the nor\u2019rard O Lord let \u2018er go.<\/li>\n
  9. And when we gets back to ol Bristol town
    \nTis there we will drink and sorrow soon drown.<\/li>\n
  10. Tally I O was a damned old screw.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From James Wright, Leith, Scotland Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 052 08:40; Disc sides 112 03:23, 112A 02:02, 420 02:05; MS p. 03579 Verses 1 to 3 and 10 are from James Wright. Verses 4 and 5 are from Cecil Sharp’s English Folk Chanteys where they are attributed to Mr. Rapsey…<\/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\/250"}],"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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}