My Old Man's a S'ilor On a Carley Float

DESCRIPTION: "My old man's a s'ilor on a carley float, Wiv 'is gorblimey collar and 'is gorblimey coat, Ties his blledin' muffler round is' bleedin' froat, Oh, My old man's a s'ilor on a carley float."
AUTHOR: unknown (see NOTES)
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: humorous clothes sailor | carley float
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 129, "My old man's a s'ilor on a carley float" (1 short text)
Roud #25532
NOTES [80 words]: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood says that this song was "a music hall song by George Leyton and Lil Hawthorne," but that doesn't mean they were the authors; they might have been the performers. I haven't been able to find a text of their full song, but it seems to me that I've heard some of these words in other songs, so it may have been well-known.
A carley float was a small life raft, so this was a joke: The sailor wasn't really a sailor but just a guy in a raft. - RBW
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