Liverpool Judies, The (Row, Bullies, Row; Roll, Julia, Roll)

DESCRIPTION: The young sailor sets out from England to America. But a wild, drunken life lands him at the boarding-master's. Back at sea, he suffers cruelly at the hands of the mate (whom he curses to hell). (At last he arrives back in port)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1924
KEYWORDS: sailor abuse drink return shanty
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar,Newf) US(NE)
REFERENCES (14 citations):
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, p. 106, "Roll, Julia, Roll (Row, Bullies, Row)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Bone-CapstanBars, pp. 118-120, "The Liverpool Girls" (1 text, 1 tune, slightly cleaned up)
Colcord-SongsOfAmericanSailormen, pp. 176-177, "Row, Bullies, Row" (1 text, 1 tune)
Harlow-ChantyingAboardAmericanShips, pp. 198-199, "The Liverpool Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 401-403, "The Liverpool Judies" (3 texts, 3 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 304-306]
Hugill-SongsOfTheSea, p. 62, "Liverpool Judies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kinsey-SongsOfTheSea, pp. 62-63, "Liverpool Judies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 239-240, "FIrst to California, Oh, Fondly I Went" (1 text)
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #22, "Blow, Bullies, Blow" (1 text, 1 tune, probably this but short enough that it might be something else; Roud classifies it with "Blow, Boys, Blow (I)")
Lomax-FolkSongsOfNorthAmerica 30, "Row, Bullies, Row" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou 66, "The Liverpool Pilot" (1 text, 1 tune, a perhaps slightly adapted version but with too many similarities to split)
Creighton-SongsAndBalladsFromNovaScotia 126, "Liverpool Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 102, "Liverpool Girls" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, LIVJUDY LIVJUDY2
Roud #928
RECORDINGS:
Anita Best, "The Liverpool Pilot" (on NFABest01)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Towrope Girls
NOTES [38 words]: [Regarding their "Liverpool Pilot" version, Lehr/Best-ComeAndIWillSingYou report] the singer "describes this as a heave-up shanty." The chorus is "And it's row, row, row bullies row For the Liverpool Pilot she have us in tow." - BS
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