On Gibraltar's Slopes

DESCRIPTION: "On Gibraltar's slopes so firm and steep, A lovely maid lay down to sleep, And as she lay in sweet repose, A gust of wind blew up her clothes" -- but a sailor who chances by, "to his despair, He was the red flag flying there."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1987 (Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy)
KEYWORDS: clothes bawdy derivative
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy, pp. 67-68, "On Gibraltar's Slopes" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Red Flag" (tune)
NOTES [28 words]: Tawney-GreyFunnelLines-RoyalNavy lists the tune of this as "The Red Flag." But it feels to me as if a likely tune was "O Tannenbaum" or one of its many derivatives. - RBW
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File: Tawn050

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