COLLECTED FROM GEORGE PATTISON

MISTER STORMALONG

Capstan
George Pattison
Cape de Couedie Lighthouse
Kangaroo Island
South Australia
4 Dec 1924 (and 1941)
Clive Carey SS424

O Stormy’s gone, the good old man
To my aye aye Stormalong
O Stormy’s gone, the good old man,
Aye, aye, aye, Mister Stormalong

(Carey note: “In a slow drawl”)

One verse of a very popular brake-windlass and capstan shanty. Bone includes a version in Capstan Bars’