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Saturday, July 23. 2011

Saturday Verse: Cape Cod Girls (Trad.)

Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs
heave away, haul away,
They comb their hair with codfish bones,
Bound away for Australia.

Chorus:
So, Heave her up my bully, bully boys,
heave away, haul away
Heave her up and don't you make a noise
we are bound away for Australia.


Cape Cod boys ain't got no sleds
heave away, haul away
They slide down the dunes on codfish heads
Bound away for Australia.


Cape Cod doctors ain't got no pills,
heave away, haul away
They feed their patients codfish gills
bound away for Australia.


Cape Cod cats ain't got no tails,
heave away, haul away
They lost them all in northeast gales
bound away for Australia.


etc. - you just keep making up verses until the hauling is done, just like a drill sergeant does during ten-mile runs.

Posted by Bird Dog in Saturday Verse at 07:01 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Kingston Trio did that song, as "Nassau gals ain't got no comb". Wish I could recall the song's name, as they did it.

Boy, did those guys hit that three-part harmony. And the banjo and bongos! They were GREAT!
#1 Buddy Larsen on 2006-08-19 16:41 (Reply)
That would be "Bay of Mexico."
#1.1 Cervica Rubra on 2010-09-04 09:19 (Reply)
The chorus reminded me of Santy Anno, here done by Odetta. I first heard it by the Weavers, but didn't find them performing it. The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem version has a reference to not having combs.
From a PBS show on the Australian bush, I remembered hearing Bound for South Australia, whichy IMHO has the melody most closely resembling Cape Cod Girls.
Buddy, the lyrics for Bay of Mexico include the comb reference you mentioned. The Kingston Trio also does Santy Anno.
#2 Gringo on 2010-09-04 10:18 (Reply)
Speaking of the Kingston Trio, I had a high school history teacher who previously taught one of the members in Hawaii, I don't recall which. Anyway, he gave the student fatherly advice along the lines of "if you don't knuckle down and study and stop spending all your time playing, you aren't going anywhere". Some years later the Kingston Trio played in Hawaiil and the teacher received a ticket to the performance. Some times things don't go as expected...
#3 chuck on 2010-09-04 12:41 (Reply)
LOL --the drummer here

http://www.dbf-music.com/2011/07/05/givers-live-session-interview-with-rolling-stone

is my grand nephew (i guess it is) --i was helping his mom, my niece, with some sage advice about ten years ago, regarding the drum set her kid (now 21) wanted. "Naw," i counseled, "...in a month it'll be in the garage for-sale-cheap."

The group is number one on iTunes last time i checked --just finished a European tour, and a date on network tv. Oops! But at least --like the teacher and the kingston story, advice was rejected and story has happy ending --

***

Y'all above who like TKT's ''Bay of Mexico'' and ''Santy Anno'' here's one you've surely heard but have you really listened --loud, thru earphones ideally --to the instrumental lead-in lately?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fHx3Yy8Hs&playnext=1&list=PL81608F24B1B56B10
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2011-07-24 18:14 (Reply)
How apropos the current times could any old song from the 50s-60s be?

Here's the comment from the youtube site:

The song details the release of John Webb, a printer and mint-master, who with Bill Tenor was jailed in Massachusetts around 1730 for passing bad bank notes. Ironically, Webb's self-printed notes were for a time more trusted than Massachusetts Bay colony notes, which explains why Webb's jail break (accomplished when some of his friends sprang Tenor, who as the song reports used his massive strength to free Webb) was hailed in the colony as a kind of pre-Revolutionary blow for freedom.

...and there's more of it --including confusion over names and nicknames related to the 'real' currency the rebels were trying to make.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMJSWWvBdzA&feature=bf_prev&list=PL81608F24B1B56B10&index=65
#4 buddy larsen on 2011-07-24 18:41 (Reply)

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