Stomach Robber, The

DESCRIPTION: "You may talk about your pleasure trips... But... the Lucy Smith, She surely takes the cake." The cook looks good, but serves poor food from a disgusting galley. "They eat of the swill till their faces turn blue But their stomachs are robbed forthwith."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1953 (collected by Walton from Robert Collen)
KEYWORDS: cook food hardtimes sailor derivative
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Walton/Grimm-Windjammers-SongsOfTheGreatLakesSailors, pp. 87-89, "The Stomach Robber" (1 text)
Roud #6555
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. ""A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)" (theme)
NOTES [39 words]: Roud combines this with "A Trip on the Erie (Haul in Your Bowline)," which is also a song about a bad cook, but the form is different enough that I think this a deliberate rewrite, although they likely come from the same original. - RBW
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File: WGM087

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