Sailors Ashore

DESCRIPTION: Sailors ashore in landsmen's togs on a tropical isle get into a drunken brawl and wake in a stockade.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1858 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: fight drink prison humorous sailor
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 116, "Sailors Ashore" (2 texts)
Roud #31342
NOTES [54 words]: Each line is four stresses. Odd lines rhyme on every second beat. In four lines the even lines rhyme. So,
The sweet scented flowers from nature's gay bowers
Were shading their fragrance out on the first breeze.
The village bells ringing the fair maids were singing
The(ir) own native songs amongst cocoa(sic) nut trees. - BS
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File: FJSB116

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