Song Challenge: Over the yardarm

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:47 PM

And now let's have one for the road between Seattle and Tacoma...

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 08:41 PM

Seems the thought behind this matches the song It's five o'clock somewhere

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 07:25 PM

This reminds me of when aah wez on my Senior Meteorologists Course doon in Cornwall when aah wez in the RN.

As yez may, or may not know, all meteorological information, worldwide, is gathered in Greenwich Mean Time.

Me and Billy Kerr decided we wouldn't gan oot for a beer until a certain time of an evening

Now as Britain was either in GMT or BST (British Summer Time)this posed a problem so.............

We designated that we would go out for a drink at 2100 EGT (Evening Glopping Time - Gloppin' is a naval term for drinkin', but yez knew that aalready)

2100 EGT is the exact time that the sun on its peripheral diurnal trajectory is designated to be 'Over The Yardarm' as defined by Sir Cloudsley Shovel prior to his demise when HMS Association sank off The Scilly Isles in 1707.

As EGT is an ETZ (Elastic Time Zone) 2100 EGT can be estimated at anywhere between 0800 and 0759 depending on;

a. The height of the thirst and,
b. The Depth of the pocket.

That's Official!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: Amos
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:45 PM

We never drink here until one,
My pappy used to roar
And then he'd say "Until the sun
has passed the yard-arm o'er"
So it became a rule of mine
To keep myself from harm,
To never hit the bottle 'til
The sun passed that yard-arm.
But a man must have what a mas must have,
WHatever folks may think,
And when things are tough, or when they're not,
What I must have's a drink.

Oh the sun is past the yard-arm somewhere
In Boothbay or in old Calaou.
In Setubal or in Moscow or in Greenwich, if you will,
It's over the yard-arm now.
Though it's barely 7 here in Pennsylvania
Don't fret or go dry all day,
For the sun is sinking out in Transylvania
So darling pass the Tanqueray

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:13 PM

Hang 'im to the yardarm while the sun is risin'!
Hang 'im to the yardarm while the sun is risin'!
Hang 'im to the yardarm while the sun is risin'!
Ear-lye in the morning!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: EBarnacle
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 06:01 PM

Keep tryin'.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 04:22 PM

Somewhere.....
Over the yardarm,
Way up high
Some are hoisting their pint pots
Why then oh, why can't I?


Dave Oesterreich

Subject: Song Challenge: Over the yardarm
From: EBarnacle
Date: 04 Jul 08 - 04:16 PM

On the way to Old Songs, Lady Hillary and I were sitting in a bar and grille and the thought came to me that "somewhere the sun is over the yardarm."
At Old Songs, I checked with John Roberts and he mentioned that he sorta recalled that line in an Austrailian song. If so, what is the song. Mebbe make a new song for the line. If not, let's build a song around it.
Go for it.