Nick Cave: Fire Down Below

Song: Nick Cave: Fire Down Below, from Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, ANTI- 2006.

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Image: Goddamn by MyFlyAway, http://myflyaway.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post_3469.html

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A popular pumping chantey, this was actually the last chantey sung aboard a commercial British square-rigger, by Stan Hugill in 1929, as the barque Garthpool was pumped out for the last time. There are a number of versions, and in some the "fire down below" is more explicitly a reference to venereal disease.

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• mythology
• sea
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[xUbastardx]

Thanks for uplaoding this. If I ever meet you I'll buy you a drink.

[wolfgpunkt]

Oh, thank you! I dearly hope this view will win wider recognition :o)

[nicholasjames100]

his voice lends to a sea shanty really well

[KnivesnForks]

Prior to The Proposition I only new Nick Cave from Dumb & Dumber. Damn was I missing out!

[kingpest13]

Its your turn in the barrel.

[taterthesufferer]

I thought that was him in the picture. lol.

[suasponte96]

looks like my wife on a wild drunk... now I know why i've been married for 20 years, and I'm a crazy marine, she's still with me.

[MRBROKEBACKPACKER]

this song makes me to be a horny sailor and to get the parson's little daughter!!! and I don't care about feeding the f... fires...

[Hirnlego999]

yarr! 

[staggersu]

don by the BILLABONG

[TheSpideriscoming]

Fucking excellent!

[GhoulardiKris]

@scarecrowFTW666 "Fire Down Below" is a traditional sea song once sung on British warships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whilst pumping