Good Ship Cantaloupe, The

DESCRIPTION: "'Twas off the coast of China in the good ship Cantaloupe, When up the creek we sprung a leak With a load of Irish soap. The shore was a thousand miles away or maybe a trifle more... we grabbed the soap and washed ourselves ashore."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: wordplay ship humorous disaster | soap China
FOUND IN: US(NE)
RECORDINGS:
Patricia Campbell, "Good Ship Cantaloupe" (Fragment: Piotr-Archive #239, recorded 09/05/2022)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Noble Duke of York" (approximate tune, with a bit of "Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer" thrown in for good measure)
NOTES [44 words]: I feel as if this OUGHT to be familiar, but extensive searching hasn't revealed anything. I wonder if there might be a version in which the ship is the "Antelope" rather than the "Cantaloupe," but it is certainly not the same song as "The Loss of the Antelope." - RBW
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File: DPio239

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