A Sailor Lad

Samuel Pepys referred to it in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook , who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health.

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In dramatic stage productions, from around the sixteenth century, a popular feature was a sea dance. But the nineteenth century saw the more familiar form of the "sailors' hornpipe" introduced. Nautical duties for example the hauling of ropes, rowing, climbing the rigging and saluting provided the dance movements. During the Last Night of the Proms in London, the spectators bring miniature foghorns and party horns and blow them along to the music, creating a loud, frenetic finale as the music reaches its fastest speed.

Groucho Marx does the traditional dance to this number at one point, as part of the opening number in the film, Duck Soup. In his debut cartoon The Wise Little Hen , released in June , Donald Duck was shown doing the hornpipe on the deck of his houseboat. Duck also does it in both the cartoon Orphan's Benefit and its shot-for-shot remake.

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In the children's novel The Moffats by Eleanor Estes , Joey Moffat is supposed to do the hornpipe in a dancing school recital. Overcome by stage fright, he can't remember the steps until a tiny lap dog — formerly a sailor's pet — hears the music and jumps into the centre of the floor to take up the dance. The tune was played in the animated Popeye cartoons beginning in the s, usually as the first part of the opening credits theme, which then segued into an instrumental of "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man".

The tune is also frequently heard as background music in many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, usually in situations concerning sailing, ships, or the sea. Reinhard Mey builds his political satire "Das Narrenschiff" around the tune. In the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H. I will teach you one this evening".

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They dressed her up in sailor's clothes, the captain did not know. And they soon will reach that bonny shore, of Canadee-i-o.

When her lover chanced to know, he in a passion flew. We'll tie her hands behind her back and overboard she'll go. We'll tie her hands behind her back, she'll die a public show. And she ne'er will reach that bonny shore of Canadee-i-o. Oh no, no cried the captain, that's a thing you must not do. For if you drown that sailor boy, it's hang-ed you will be.

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For if you drown that sailor boy, you'll die a public show. And you ne'er will reach that bonny shore of Canadee-i-o. T'was scarcely six months later, t'was less than half a year. The captain fell in love with her, and call-ed her his dear. He's dressed her up in satins fine, she's won a public show. She's now the highest captain's wife in Canadee-i-o.

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Come all ye pretty fair maids, a warning take by me. And follow with your own true love, wherever he may be. For if by chance he may prove false, there's others may prove true. You see the honour I have won, by the wearing o' the blue. Also gets rid of the nonsensical idea that Canada [or 'Canadee-i-o"] is the name of a 'seaport town', which always jars, doesn't it? I have nevertheless always loved Nic's version, mind.

The rest is as usual: The other sailors disagree and want to throw her overboard, the Captain intervenes and saves her, she marries the Captain. There are four version collected by Alfred Williams on the site, though they were not all complete and Williams' commented that they seemed to come from two versions. I've only had a quick look, but I think a combined text is shown for all. Mob mentality at its finest eh? The basic story in all versions in the same: The woman disguises herself to get on her lover's ship, either to pursue him as her lover or to have him arrested for leaving her.

She usually has some other sailor help her get on board. When she is discovered her lover wants to get rid of her either because he isn't really interested in her or he doesn't want to be arrested.

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The crew want to throw her overboard, the captain intervenes and saves her. When they get to Canada she eventually marries the Captain.

So, the answer to the OP's question is that the lover she initially pursues either does not really want her and she falls in love and marries the captain instead. And then these are based on an even longer song from the 18th century, 19 stanzas called 'The Caledonian Maid'. Even in this the start of the story is a little sketchy and looks to be a survival from an even longer ballad.

Her lover was Scottish in the army and had a commission to go back to Scotland. The next bit is confused. A troop of soldiers come by while they are taking their last farewells at which point the lover disappears mysteriously and she asks the soldiers to take her with them to Scotland offering pay.

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They agree intending to sell her as a slave in Scotland, but the sea? At any rate we're told her lover already has a wife in Scotland. She asks the captain to disguise her as a sailor which he does and they travel to many lands. The captain has a dream in which he is told to marry her to save her.

When he goes to find her in the morning the 'deceiver' has bound her hand and foot and ready to throw her in the sea. The captain and the maid have a long conversation and he offers to save her life if she will serve him when they come to Caledonia. In the later short versions c he marries her.