Interesting Facts about So Early In The Morning (A)
This is another shanty telling of Sailor’s shore amusements, it was used both for halyards and pumps. The first line is the chorus, sung as many shantymen sang the chorus of other shanties, as an introduction when they were in doubt as to whether a greenhorn crowd knew the refrain or not. This version is a Liverpool-Irish one.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 56).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 56).
The Record of the So Early In The Morning (A)
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
So Early In The Morning ( A )
– So! early in the mornin: the sailor likes… his bottle O!
* 1 *
The mate was drunken’ and he went below to take a swig at his bottle O,
– So! early in the mornin: the sailor likes… his bottle O!
* 2 *
The bottle-O, the bottle-O, the sailor loves his bottle-O,
* 3 *
A bottle o’ rum, a bottle o’ gin, a bottle o’ irish whisky-O
* 4 *
The baccy-O, terbaccy-O, the sailor loves his baccy-O.
* 5 *
A packet o’ shag, a packet o’ cut, a plug o’ hard terbaccy-O
* 6 *
The lassies-O, the maidens-O, the sailor loves the judies-O.
* 7 *
A lass from the ‘Pool, a gal from the Tyne, a chowlah so fine an’ dandy-O.
* 8 *
A bully rough-house, a bully rough-house, the sailor likes a rough-house-O
* 9 *
A Tread on me coat, and all-hands-in, a bully good rough an’ tumble-O.
* 10 *
A sing-song-O, a sing-song-O, the sailor likes a sing-song-O.
* 11 *
A drinkin’ song, a song o’ love, a ditty o’ seas and shipmatessing-song-O,