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| "Another Concert Item - October 1930 - Forty Seven Ginger Headed Sailors" "Back: Wilfred Pilgrim, Howard Wohlers and Lin[dsay] Wohlers, Gordon Pilgrim, Jim Pilgrim, Fred Pilgrim Kneeling Front: Mavis Pilgrim, Edna Pilgrim, Hazel Pilgrim, Dorrie Pilgrim, Mary Moulden, Standing Front: Rita Moulden" Photo from the album of Eva Scott (nee Pilgrim) |
These sailors, who are all related to me, are definitely not all ginger headed and they probably had no idea what they were actually singing about! But I am sure that they had fun anyway! The mothers have done a wonderful job of making the costumes!
School concerts and Sunday School concerts were a regular feature in the Winiam Hall. I have featured a number of different school concert photos from my grandmother's album in the past, and have more to come.
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Now there's a good ship
H.M.S. Cock-Robin
On her home trip
Up and down she's bobbin'
So the crew's pretty tough
The weather's so rough
They're all fed up and say
That they've had more than enough
I've got a brother
He's an able seaman
And they call him Redhead Tom
I wire to say I'll meet you
And with your pals I'll treat you
So who do you think I've had a message from?
Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors
Coming home across the briney sea
When the anchor's weighed
And the journey's made
Then they'll start the party
With a heave-ho, me hearty
When there's Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors
You can bet you're going to hear them when they hail us
As they step ashore
There'll be one mighty roar
For forty-seven ginger-headed sailors!
Music
An old maid down in Devon
Said my idea of heaven
Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors!
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I can just imagine those young sailors singing those lyrics to that jaunty tune. :)
ReplyDeleteI am sure that they had a great time :)
DeleteI’d never heard of it before and I clearly missed the episode of Jeeves and Wooster with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry having fun with the double entedre, which your You Tube clip led me to. It seems to have been a popular song of the time. Well done for finding the picture and sheet music too.
ReplyDeleteThat is strange as my link comes up with the correct tune. I have unlinked and relinked so it should be correct now.
DeleteSorry Sharon, what I meant was, after enjoying your link, I explored the others that You Tube led me to.
DeleteMy misunderstanding. I had watched several versions and changed my mind several times (and the link) so thought it was blogger playing up!
DeleteAll Good :)
What a treasure trove your grandmother's album is Sharon.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is! I have sufficient photos for blogging for many years!
DeleteWhat a fun and entertaining post. I agree with the old maid in Devon.
ReplyDeleteThank you Helen.
DeleteEarly musicals were popular featuring sailors and sailors songs; as ship travel was the only way over the oceans. I guess musicals with pilots would not be so adventurous and popular as air travel has become so everyday!
ReplyDeleteVery good points!
DeleteThat's a cute and unusual family picture. At first I thought they were real sailors.
ReplyDeleteI cannot tell in the photos but my grandmother told me that many of the costumes were made out of crepe paper rather than real material
DeleteNice photo. It must have been entertaining to listen to. I looked up the sheet music for this. It is perfect for the ukulele which I am learning to play.
ReplyDeleteWell Done with learning the ukulele. I should try to learn an instrument!
DeleteSoldiers and sailors were once a popular feature in many songs of olden times, perhaps because the use of stereotypes allowed for easier rhymes in humorous lyrics. I doubt that today's navy promotes the idea of jolly sailor persons.
ReplyDeleteI could hear the them to "Popeye the sailor man" in there somewhere :)
DeleteAn interesting post - I too followed the You tube clip and spent an enjoyable time listening to Hugh Laurie singing jazz.
ReplyDeleteBlogger! It was coming up correctly for me but I have unlinked and relinked again so hopefully it is correct for you now?
DeleteLove the tune, and that's a great family photo. The original is good but I enjoyed Hugh Laurie's version too. It just comes up as an alternative on the side.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jo. Hugh Laurie's version is more fun but the words were slightly different.
DeleteLove the photo with the hands on the hips! They look smart in their outfits!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if my grandmother set it up? The photo is all family members, but there would have been others, who were not family, at the school or Sunday school. If so she did a great job of setting it up and getting such a good photo!
DeleteWhat fun - a great photo and story. I love the insight into a time and place like this blog post provides.
ReplyDeleteThanks Wendy. I don't seem to remember that we had such good costumes when I was in primary school.
DeleteA fun photo! I don't know why, but I couldn't hear the music. The words are certainly old fashioned & in keeping with the times, however. Again - fun!
ReplyDeleteMore technical problems!
Deletei love reading this article so beautiful!!great job!
ReplyDeletebizarre and unusual