{"id":483,"date":"2014-12-14T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2016-11-01T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:58:28","slug":"twas-in-the-month-of-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/14\/twas-in-the-month-of-january\/","title":{"rendered":"It was in the month of January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">74.12.2<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:12.6px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"74.12.2\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zc3NhLmxsYy5lZC5hYy51ay93aGFsc2F5YW5zL3dwLWNvbnRlbnQvdXBsb2Fkcy9zaXRlcy8yLzIwMTUvMDEvNzQuMTIuMi5tcDM=\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:true, vol:100, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p><b>Robbie T. Hutchison \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>[Bold Daniels]<\/em><\/b><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>SA1974.12.2<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the songs which Robbie learned from his uncle Peter.\u00a0 Other versions of this piracy song \u00a0were collected on the south coast of England and in Nova Scotia and Labrador. \u00a0A long and similar text can be found\u00a0in a rare book by M.C. Dean \u2013\u00a0<em>The Flying Cloud And One Hundred and Fifty other Old Time Songs and Ballads of Outdoor Men&#8230;<\/em>\u2013 published in Minnesota in 1922-3. \u00a0The book which can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\"><em>archive.org<\/em><\/a> contains several other ballads featured on our\u00a0website. Other versions are listed in Steve Roud&#8217;s folksong index (no. 1899) and for a longer text than this one visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.traditionalmusic.co.uk\/folk-song-lyrics\/Bold_Daniels.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.traditionalmusic.co.uk\/folk-song-lyrics\/Bold_Daniels.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Oh \u2018twas in the month of January from Liverpool we set sail<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kind Neptune did conduct us with a sweet and pleasant gale<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In the Roving Elizabeth we were bound, bold Daniel our Captain\u2019s name<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For we were out from Liverpool bound for the Spanish Main<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Oh we\u2019d just been out a day, boys, a day but scarcely three<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When the lookout from the mast head cried \u201cA strange sail, Sir, I see.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With black colours under his mizzen peak he bore down our way<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI know he is a pirate.\u201d Bold Daniels he did cry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u201cOh it\u2019s back your fore-main-topsails and come down here on our lea.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI\u2019ll see you in hell,\u201d says Daniel, \u201cI\u2019d rather sink at sea.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then he flew aloft his pirate flag for us to terrify<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But with our big guns and small arms, at him we did let fly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Oh we loaded our six-pounders an\u2019 we fought him on the Main<\/em><br \/>\n<em>An\u2019 when the battle it began it was about half-past ten.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oh we loaded our six-pounders and fought that twenty two<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And at twenty-five minutes after five the pirate sang out \u2018mar blue\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Oh we fought and beat the pirate down off the Colombian shore<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Then we steered for a port in America called the city of Baltimore;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There we\u2019ll drink success to Daniels, likewise his manly crew<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who fought and beat the pirate whose number was twenty-two.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/14\/twas-in-the-month-of-january\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[44,47,126,139,141],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robert-hutchison","category-i-p","tag-american-war-of-independence","tag-bold-daniels","tag-piracy","tag-sea","tag-sea-battle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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