Martin Carthy & Family: Hog-Eye Man

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-:

A hog-eye was apparently a type of barge used in the canals and rivers of America from the 1850's onward. Thus, "hog-eye man" was used in derogation by the deep water sailors who used this chantey at the capstan. Many of the original verses to this chantey were far too obscene to have ever found their way into print.

Image: Miss Marjorie Joesting: Rock On: 1926.
Marjorie, the future Mrs. Arthur Lange, was both Miss Washington, D.C., and a Miss America runner-up at Atlantic City in 1926.
National Photo Company Collection glass negative, August 2, 1926.
Via Shorpy: http://www.shorpy.com/node/4282

Lyrics and annotations in http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/rogue%e2%80%99s-gallery-the-art-of-th...

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[jumblyman]

Love, love this song - the stand out track of that compilation, one to play over and over.

[Jagunco]

ok... that was brilliant

[f8less9]

cheeks of her arse go chuff chuff chuff hehehe...i actually saw this live in hull at a marine gathering and ive been hooked since

[guisar81]

Awesome album- now I gotta listen to both disks...

[kirktorf]

Very cool.

[Trencomtrink]

Martin you are brilliant