The Liverpool Judies (C) [402-404] (305-307)

Aside from the mention of "Liverpool Judies" in the chorus, and the mention of shanghaing/crimping, this version of the chantey is quite different from the others given by Hugill. The tune is completely different, although that matters little since the tunes are interchangeable for such songs. Hugill mentions having heard this text also sung to the air of (the non-chantey) "Villikins and his Dinah." This text is perhaps less known, as it was Hugill's version 'A' text that appears in AL Lloyd and MacColl's popular recording of "Row, Bullies, Row." Harlow also gave a version of the present text.

Scenes in the video are of some of the extant, accessible docks of Liverpool. Several of the northern docks are blocked off by the dock wall, so "Bramley More Dock," for instance, which is mentioned in the other version of "Liverpool Judies," was inaccessible. "Salthouse Dock" is mentioned famously in "Heave Away, Me Johnnies":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHNizFUQTUM

I searched for Kings Dock, where cotton shipments from the Gulf ports was unloaded, only to realize it was no more, having been filled in to build a car park.

Please check out the whole chanteys project playlist, at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=58B55DD66F22060C

Category:

Music

Tags:

• liverpool
• docks
• dockland
• judies
• crimps
• sailor
• shanties
• chantey
• sea
• song

[Snedger]

"Liverpool town where I was born,

where there ain't no trees,

no scented breeze,

no fields of waving corn,

but there's lots of girls,

with peroxide curls,

and the Black and Tan flows free,

it's six in a bed by the old Pier Head

and it's Liverpool town for me."

Came here as a student and never went home!

[hultonclint]

Nice! I would not mind living/working there; I liked it a lot.

[philipsmovies]

Liverpool town, a fantastic place full of humour and great music.

[hultonclint]

Pretty girls, too, I found!

[philipsmovies]

Exactly, thousands of them i forgot to mention that!

[hultonclint]

I was quite smitten by them, very friendly and fashionable. That was not so much the case in London (the only other English city I've visited), ha ha

[philipsmovies]

As you may know people up North are generally much more friendly than our Southern friends.

[hultonclint]

Thanks. I wonder if I am the only person who's roamed around Liverpool trying to get shots of all the old docks, ha

[raymondcrooke]

Your videos are always interesting, Ranzo. Nice appropriate visuals here.