Anime Shanties_Roll The Old Chariot Along

This is a quick clip that I did of "Roll The Old Chariot Along," which was performed by Mystic Port Chanteymen in their album "Songs of the Sailor." I hope you like it.

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[kotori87]

When Admiral Nelson was killed at Trafalgar, they didn't give him a sea burial. Instead, they preserved his body in a barrel of alcohol for a funeral back at England. Throughout the voyage, they had to refill the barrel containing Nelson's body several times because the sailors thought it would make them into better sailors if they drank "nelson's blood".

Or at least that's the story I've always been told...

[fsgtad]

a drop of nelson's blood might hurt nelson 0_o

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@drsweeney1

True, 1770s Continental Marine was allotted something like third a gallon of lemonade a day to prevent scurvy.

[drsweeney1]

The life those sailors led was harder than anything we could imagine. I reckon being half-cut for most of the voyage was the only way they could cope. Besides, James Lind had proven the link between scurvy and a lack of vitamin C several years before Nelson was born, and helped coin the pejorative Limey after sailors were given lime juice (see lines from New York Girls re 'lime-juice sailor'.

[SableAradia]

I'm not sure whether or not your assertation that sailors were drinking rum to prevent scurvy is true, but I know it won't work. Rum is fermented raw sugar so it has no Vitamin C, of course. Still, sailors might have thought that in that age - after all, they smoked because it was supposed to be good for you as a pick-me-up. Sailors were able to eat bug-infested and half-rotten food & they saw a lot of blood, so I don't think they would have minded willingly & knowingly "tapping the Admiral."

[angikaaras]

@fsgtad i was laughed every time i read your comment plus 0_o was used at the best time

[MrPhychoizzy1]

i had a friend named nelson........ he dead

[sadielouguesswho]

@Salisaad no it was never used to save rum how would it help to have your crew be drunk and it was used to help not have scurvy and the rum was in grog to help persevere it

[Salisaad]

@sadielouguesswho Grog is rum diluted with hot water - man named Grog invented this to 1) save rum 2) reduce crew inebriation.

[CrawdaddyJoe]

ha! What are these beardless whelps you've drawn?

[sadielouguesswho]

@kotori87 no not exacly admril neson was killed and the last words he said were "not over the ege "

so the put him in a barral of GROG i wicth carred achool to preseve it after tere ship had no wind for months the had to open nelsons barrle and drink the grog to not get scurrvey and they said "a drop of nelsons blod never do us any harm note he said not over the ege becuse he thout it would bring the sailors spirts down note 2 grog was made out of achool lime and coal

[takezomiyamoto9]

dude!!! where do you get all this awesome music???