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Comment by Vinylhed on April 16, 2016 at 12:45pm

Thank you, Antony.

Comment by Antony Moggridge on April 15, 2016 at 11:11am

Super.

Comment by Vinylhed on April 15, 2016 at 10:30am

I'm more used to playing this on the tuba with my brass band, as it features alongside a host of other sea-going anthems in Fantasia on British Sea Songs as arranged by Sir Henry Wood. When I played it, I would always think of Quint. 

Comment by Vinylhed on April 15, 2016 at 10:23am

Thanks Turtle and Maddog. "Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women!"

Comment by Maddog on April 13, 2016 at 2:10am

Well done VH! Got a lil' Pirate growl in your voice too......I like it!

Ha, like TH my first intro to this song was "Quint" many many moons ago  :-)

Comment by turtlehead on April 12, 2016 at 11:11am

This is great.  The only reason I know this song is from Quint singing it in Jaws.

Comment by Jim Morris on April 11, 2016 at 1:01pm

Thanks man! I live near Romney, WV, home of the WV school for deaf and blind and I was picturing a blind sailor having to read with fingertips to know what lines to pull! Not gonna tell you what I thiought spanker meant!

Comment by Vinylhed on April 11, 2016 at 10:48am

Thanks Derek, Jim and John.

Jim I might be able to help with the phrase. 

The Brail is one of several small ropes attached to the leech of a sail for drawing the sail in or up, and Brailed means to gather in the sail via those ropes.

The Spanker (sometimes called a dolphin spanker) is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast.

Put 'em together and what've you got?

Comment by Uncle John on April 11, 2016 at 5:37am

Nice flag!   Just what Mr. Morris said.  

Loved it.  Another ration of rum and another song please, sir.

Comment by Jim Morris on April 11, 2016 at 12:34am

The cadbury sounds sweet and the singing is appropriately gruff for a sailor or pirate breathing the salt air. Now I have to look up what brailed in our spankers means! Well done.

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