Stoker's Complaint, The

DESCRIPTION: "There are men in the Navy are known as POs, But what they are there for, the Lord only knows, They stand on the plates and they bawl and they shout, And order the poor old King's Dustmen about."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: sailor navy work derivative
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, p. 31, "The Stoker's Complaint" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mountains of Mourne" (tune)
File: Tawn016

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