Hot Engagement Between a French Privateer and an English Fireship, (An Excellent New Song Entitled A...)

DESCRIPTION: "I'm a prize for a captain to fall on, My name it is seafaring Kate." "My bottom was strongly well planked, My deck could a tempest endure, But ne'er was a poor dog... So tossed as was the Monsieur." "Then Monsieur got off and was grieved...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1691 (broadside date)
KEYWORDS: sailor trick ship sex
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 27, "An Excellent New Song Entitled A Hot Engagement Between a French Privateer and an English Fireship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V12060
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fire Ship" (theme)
File: PaSe027

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