Saga of a Wayward Sailor Quotes

“In Amsterdam there lives a maid (Mark well what I do say) In Amsterdam there lives a maid. And she is the mistress of her trade: I’ll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid! A-roving, a-roving, since roving’s been my ru-eye-in, I’ll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid!   British seaman’s songearly seventeenth centuryMost seamen’s songs and chanties, from the sixteenthcentury on, were highly “permissive” when read aright.They were much bowdlerised in the nineteenth century,and many lost their original honesty and delight. Thisone, innocent except to the seamen’s ears, survived.(“Torove,” is the sailor’s term for the weft in canvas. It means”to insert”—”to pass through.” “Trade,” in English, hasalways had a sexual connotation.)”
― Tristan Jones, Saga of a Wayward Sailor

“raining a Trafalgar, too!” “Merde!” He turned to go up the ladder. At the top, he turned again. “Bien, mon chef marin, bonne chance!” “Mercy buckets, M’sieur. See you next time.”
― Tristan Jones, Saga of a Wayward Sailor