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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><b>L O W L A N D S - L - 08 July
2010 - Volume 04</b><br>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Obiter Dictum</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:obiterdictum@mail.ru">obiterdictum@mail.ru</a>></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Etymology" 2010.07.07 (05) [DE-NDS]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Hmm ... Speaking of shanties.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">:-)</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Eine Seefahrt die ist lustig / Eine Seefahrt, die ist schön.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Lemme tell you
that in the times when <b><i>real</i></b> shanties were sung, <b><i>keine</i></b>
Seefahrt was either 'lustig' or 'schön'. I mean it. <br>
<br>
First of all, men who went to sea, were not -- by the very fact that they did
--, well, they were not ... er ... very imaginative, to put it mildly, among
other things (yours truly included, for that matter).</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Secondly, the
degrading conditions they lived and worked under at the time, just could not
inspire anything close to being printable. <br>
<br>
All the chanties, including this:</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Way hay, up she
rises,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Way hay, up she
rises,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Way hay, up she
rises,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Early in the
morning! <br>
<br>
-- were created and sung by romantic poets performers (the type of Joseph
Conrad -- who happened to be a rotten captain, for that matter, you know ...). <br>
<br>
Yes, <b><i>'rises.'</i></b> (that’s what connects my rant with the subject). Ostensibly,
this is the 'work song' believed to be sung by seamen at the handspikes round
the capstan as they winched her to the anchor against the wind at the beginning
of their next lustige Seefahrt. Lustige, really? I doubt it. The job was really
done under a terrible hangover after the night before. Incidentally, the first
lines of the shanty I quoted read: <br>
<br>
What will we do with the drunken sailor, <br>
What will we do with the drunken sailor,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">What will we do
with the drunken sailor</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Early in the
morning?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">You can hear
this fancy stuff here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Let me assure
you: The tempo is a bit, he-he, too brisk for a bunch of half-drunk hung over
seamen 'walking out' a five-mast bark at anchor early in morning. <br>
<br>
You might have well seen the so-called apache dances in French or French-style
cabarets. <br>
But did <i>real </i>apaches dance? Or, if they did, did they exactly the way
you see in the cabarets? <br>
Right. <br>
Did real seamen sing at the capstan? <br>
They did. <br>
What?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">The defence
calls Mr. Jan de Hartog, the great Dutch American novelist:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">"</span>The glory of the square-rigged ship has been
immortalised by [...] artists with beards singing sea-shanties in a jersey,
accompanying themselves on the Spanish guitar. [...]</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I sailed under canvas as a boy,
and in my memory the stalwart salts with the hearts of oak were moronic bipeds
dangling in the branches of artificial trees in constant peril of their lives. The
sea-chanties were ditties they were forced to sing by foreheadless bosuns,
brandishing marline-spikes to mark time while pulling the ropes. I never heard
it sung that my mother had a mermaid’s tail,<b><u>nor did I hear anybody wonder
what to do with the drunken sailor</u></b>. The chanties I heard were either
descriptions of the cook’s anatomy, or based on the fact that old captains have
young wives." (<i>A Sailor's Life</i>, 1956).</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I rest my case. <br>
<br>
Vlad Lee <br>
Tokyo, Japan/Moscow, Russia</span></p>
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