When the Cabin Portholes are Dark and Green

DESCRIPTION: "When the cabin portholes are dark and green, Because of the seas outside, And the ship goes wop with a wiggle in between" and everyone is thrown around, "Then you may know if you haven't guessed That you're fifty north and forty west"
AUTHOR: Words: Rudyard Kipling
EARLIEST DATE: 1894 (The Jungle Book)
KEYWORDS: ship storm hardtimes
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 133, "When the cabin portholes are dark and green" (1 text)
Roud #25387
NOTES [41 words]: Fifty North and Forty West is of course in the North Atlantic, more or less on the course from the British Isles to Newfoundland or Halifax, at the point on that arc which is south of Greenland. It is indeed a very rough, stormy part of the sea. - RBW
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File: KSUC133

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