Ralph Steadman: Little Boy Billy

From: Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, ANTI- 2006.

Buy CD: http://www.amazon.com/Rogues-Gallery-Pirate-Ballads-Chanteys/dp/B000GGSMD0/re...

Explanatory liner notes by record label ANTI-:

Ralph Steadman - vocals; Robyn Hitchcock - vocals, guitar; Jenni Muldaur - bkg vocals; Ed Harcourt - vocals, piano; Kate St. John - oboe, accordion; Rory McFarlane - bass, bkg vocals; Warren Ellis - strings, bkg vocals; Leo Abrahams - guitar, bkg vocals; Andy Newmark - drums, bkg vocals; Martyn Barker - percussion, bkg vocals
Recorded in London at Sanctuary / Town House Studios - Engineered by Tim Roe, assisted by Tom Hough
A humorous fo'c'sle song of obscure origin. There was actually a time, before 1885, when eating the cabin boy in an emergency was an accepted part of the -custom of the sea.- In 1885, legal precedent was set when three shipwrecked British sailors were convicted of murder for eating their 17 year old cabin boy, Richard Parker, before their rescue. Life was imitating art in the spookiest of ways. In 1837, Edgar Allen Poe published a story in which three shipwrecked sailors ate their cabin boy. His name in Poe's story: Richard Parker.

Images: Levy Bunyan: Laura Plummer from Aberdeen, 29. August 2010
Flickr Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aekido/sets/72157624709396129/with/4938024367
Artist: http://www.modelmayhem.com/1029976

Artist's website:
http://www.ralphsteadman.com

Lyrics and annotations in
http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/rogues-gallery-the-art-of-the-siren-43

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[TheSpaceMost]

Yes I've been looking for this since it was played on a pirate radio station.

[wolfgpunkt]

@TheSpaceMost Does "pirate radio station" mean what I think it means? ;)

[rntbprz]

beautyfull foto's

[TheSpaceMost]

tis a station that has less than a miles power, but it does play some mighty whailing songs!

[sidDkid87]

Another great one, wolfgpunkt! Thank you!