Looking for a Ship

DESCRIPTION: "I went down dock the other day, Went for a ship, didn't you hear me say? Couldn't get a ship, couldn't get a sub, So I went down dock on the old lug. Singing, I'm going to look." The singer complains that the sailors work but the captain makes the money
AUTHOR: Harry Aisthorpe (source: Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1970 (collected by Steve Gardham); thought to have been written in the 1920s
KEYWORDS: sailor bawdy
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 148, "Looking for a Ship" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16875
File: PaSea148

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