{"id":277,"date":"2010-06-25T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"our-anchor-is-up-to-the-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/our-anchor-is-up-to-the-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Anchor Is Up to the Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>From Jimmie Cronin, London, England<\/h5>\n<p>Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 036 01:41; Disc side 076 02:50; MS pp. 03138, 09006<\/p>\n<p>Verses 2-4 from the broadside &#8220;The Country I&#8217;m Leaving Behind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I ne&#8217;er shall forget when we parted<br \/>\nI left my true love on the quay<br \/>\nShe told me not to be down hearted<br \/>\nBut hove to our anchor are we.<br \/>\n<em>chorus:<\/em><br \/>\nOur anchor is up to the bow,\u00a0 boys<br \/>\nOur tops&#8217;ls are well sheeted home<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s farewell to dear old London<br \/>\nAnd all the flash girls on the town.<\/li>\n<li>My barque leaves the harbour to-morrow,<br \/>\nAcross the wide ocean to go,<br \/>\nBut, Kitty, my burden of sorrow<br \/>\nIs more than I&#8217;d wish you to know.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a dreary dark cloud hanging o&#8217;er me,<br \/>\nAnd a mighty big cloud on my mind,<br \/>\nAnd I think of the prospects before me,<br \/>\nAnd the country I&#8217;m leaving behind.<\/li>\n<li>Let stormy clouds gather above me,<br \/>\nAnd friendship prove stale or unkind,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll know there is one heart will love me<br \/>\nIn the country I&#8217;m leaving behind.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s when I return from the ocean<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s you that I will make my bride<br \/>\nFor I have a queer sort of a notion<br \/>\nOf a baby or two by my side.<em><br \/>\nfinal chorus<br \/>\n<\/em> And our anchor&#8217;s no more to the bow boys<br \/>\nAnd our tops&#8217;ls are not sheeted home<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s welcome to dear old London<br \/>\nAnd\u00a0 all the flash girls on the town.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jimmie Cronin, London, England Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972\/001 Cylinder 036 01:41; Disc side 076 02:50; MS pp. 03138, 09006 Verses 2-4 from the broadside &#8220;The Country I&#8217;m Leaving Behind&#8221;. I ne&#8217;er shall forget when we parted I left my true love on the quay She told me not to be&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\/277"}],"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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}