Do you know anything about " The Lass that loved a Sailor "?

Question

Dolores were you taken from the county jail?

Answer 1

The alternative name fo the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera HMS Pinafore.

Answer 2

brandy your a find girl what a good wife you would be

but my life my love my lady is the sea

so brandy wait  in the north of spain for her sailor to return

Answer 3

No,  do you?  If so tell us.

Answer 4

It's a song, but much older than Gilbert and Sullivan.  It was a song about the Navy in Nelson's time, when 'Saturday Night at Sea' was treated as a time for boozy relaxation if the situation permitted.

'Some drank to the King, and some our brave ships

And some to the constitution

And some to our Foes, and may all such rips

Yield to English Resolution

Some sweetheart or wife that he loved as his life

Each drank as he wished he could hail her

But the standing toast that pleased the most

Was the lass who loves a sailor'.

I don't think it was particularly a sailors' song - probably more of a patriotic song about sailors, performed in popular theatres, and in pubs by ballad singers.

Answer 5

"The Lass That Loved A Sailor" is the alternative title, or subtitle, of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta "HMS Pinafore". There is no song of this name in the operetta.

There exists a song with a similar title, "The Lass That Loves A Sailor", by Charles Dibdin, but this has no connection with the above.

Answer 6

Oh yes! When I was on teaching practice in Liverpool a fellow student, an innocent from London, was working in an 'all-age' , girls school. One of the few remaining schools which had children from 5 to 15. One evening she said to me, 'I don't understand. There are 5 girls from the same family, but one is white, one is black, one looks Chinese and the other two are sort of mixtures.'

That's probably the story of 'the lass who loved a sailor' - or obviously more than one.

Answer 7

This is a song from the operetta "HMS Pinafore" by Gilbert and Sullivan.

Answer 8

Did she sink?

Answer 9

I think that has something to do with "HMS Pinafore" , a comic operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan......