Take My Tip, Pack Your Grip

DESCRIPTION: "Take my tip, pack your grip, Get right off this bleeding ship, Bye bye Loch Lomond. Dump my gear upon the quay, Then no more you'll see of me.... I will leave the Jaunty far behind me... So take my tip... Get right off this bleeding ship"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: navy farewell derivative
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, p. 41, "Take My Tip, Pack Your Grip" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" (tune)
cf. "The Blackbird (VII)" (tune) and references there
NOTES [129 words]: Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy suggests that any song name could be zipped into this song, and I'm sure his right, but the ship he mentions, the Loch Lomond, was a real ship. John Young, A Dictionary of Ships of the Royal Navy of the Second World War, Patrick Stephens, 1975, p. 91, says that she was a ship of the "Loch" class (which obviously makes sense!), finished in 1944 and scrapped in 1968.
Richard Worth, Fleets of World War II, Da Capo, 2001, p. 127, says that there were 26 frigates of the "Loch" class, which were of 1435 tons, armed with one 4" gun. Worth describes them as good anti-submarine vessels, but at less than 1500 tons, they can't have been very comfortable when sailing the North Atlantic, so it's no surprise the sailor would want off. - RBW
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