Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague

[Praefectus Praetorio]

When a ship is riding at anchor, the anchor sits on the seafloor. The last action to prep to leave is to "Weigh Anchor" - to lift up the anchor and stow onboard. Weigh here as a verb is similar to weighing yourself. As soon as the anchor is off the bottom, it is said to be "aweigh" - hence the US Navy anthem, "Anchors Aweigh!" - not away , as many are confused to think.
Before engine-driven winches were used to raise the heavy anchor, a capstan on the deck was turned by the sailors to do so. It was heavy work and like many such tasks, the sailors had work chants or songs to help them along.
"Weigh! - Ho! - Up! She rises!" they would chant, keeping time by stomping on the deck as they walked around, early in the morning to catch the tide. This song probably was a bawdy expansion on the original chant - you hear the powerful beat to the work. Originally the lyrics might have been even more explicit.

The same kind of work is seen here with slave @Eulalia's day job grinding the finest coffee (with the special added ingredient - slave girl fluids.)
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I find the video very uplifting!!

 

[Silent_Water]

Hm, it is "interesting" for me that I could download this video from here and see it on my computer but I see nothing here except the "soundbar":



In any case, I feel already a pity for the poor grinding girl. Being German, I hope she is member in her equivalent to the German Labor's Union (="Gewerkschaft NGG"): Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (= German "Labor's Union of Food - Physical Enjoyment - Restaurants") !??

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

In any case, I feel already a pity for the poor grinding girl. Being German, I hope she is member in her equivalent to the German Labor's Union (="Gewerkschaft NGG"): Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (= German "Labor's Union of Food - Physical Enjoyment - Restaurants") !??

Oh, I'm sure she is. I was wondering if it was proper to refer to a slave's work as her job, but of course, slaves can have jobs. Naturally, they are not paid, and work incentives, as you see are different. But she is guaranteed (almost ) clean straw to sleep on at night, and regular whippings of her "girly parts." Enough to keep any slave girl on her toes and happy!

 

[Silent_Water]

By the way: I often really love the dancing "sailors" and their uniforms, especially the female ones in the first video of my last posted dance videos here. It is like a memory of movies with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly and I think, it is because the smiles of the dancers seem to be really "genuine" according to the explanation in "Lie to me":



OK, the last smile for the last picture should be yours and the funniest thing about this video seems to be that - according to the text under the YouTube-Video - the singers and indoor dancers are Italian, the female sailor dancers are all said to be Russians!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

"Lie to me"

Just remember the old wisdom, if you pay a whore, don't be surprised if she tells you how great you are!

 

[Silent_Water]

Well, there is a President in the far East of Europe who once was proud to say that his country has the best of them in the world. Maybe, he really knew of what he was proud and talking about ...

 

[Hugin&Munin]

Sailors get drunk in every language

I've heard other Sea Shanties in the German version that are really good, this one definitely doesn't belong.

 

[Eulalia]

When a ship is riding at anchor, the anchor sits on the seafloor. The last action to prep to leave is to "Weigh Anchor" - to lift up the anchor and stow onboard. Weigh here as a verb is similar to weighing yourself. As soon as the anchor is off the bottom, it is said to be "aweigh" - hence the US Navy anthem, "Anchors Aweigh!" - not away , as many are confused to think.
Before engine-driven winches were used to raise the heavy anchor, a capstan on the deck was turned by the sailors to do so. It was heavy work and like many such tasks, the sailors had work chants or songs to help them along.
"Weigh! - Ho! - Up! She rises!" they would chant, keeping time by stomping on the deck as they walked around, early in the morning to catch the tide. This song probably was a bawdy expansion on the original chant - you hear the powerful beat to the work. Originally the lyrics might have been even more explicit.

The same kind of work is seen here with slave @Eulalia's day job grinding the finest coffee (with the special added ingredient - slave girl fluids.)
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I find the video very uplifting!!

Ah yes! The famous coffee-grinding sequence. To download to view, click on the 3 dots.
It's more than 10 years now since I carelessly commented on Sabina Casarova's look-alikeness to me -
well she did then, or maybe some years before, but I don't know whether we're still so similar - and my eyes are brown.
I was immediately despatched to the Coffee Shop cellar and have been grinding devotedly ever since,
and as cruxtomers come down and watch, i've met lots of lovely people here in that time!

(Incidentally, that clip is from a BoundHeat video - long since wiped from YouTube -
it's been edited so my grinding stint is done twice over before more beans are poured into the mill,
more chance to enjoy a sweaty slavegirl!)

 

[Eulalia]

To be honest, even in the German version, which I did not know before, I could not really find out who is "sie" / "she" who "is rising in the morning"?
The captain's daughter? The ship? The "Maat's" stomach?
This song remains a mystery for me ... but I am also a "very-dry-German" who never drank too much and who never lived near the sea ...

Another mystery for me is the posting of Eulalia: When and how can they dance "when they're nailed up on crosses"?
You should know me by now and that I am such a "male mimosa" to be able to see blood only when it is cleanly packed in these pretty blood donation bags.
So, nailing someone up to something is a very unhygienic idea for me and not antiseptic enough for me.
Because of that and because of my everlasting search for perfection, my second-last girl-friend compared me often to Mr. Monk:

Monk (TV series) - Wikipedia

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pace Pr Pr, I think (certainly sung at that pace) it's the sails that would be rising, rather than the anchor -
weighing an anchor would require a more plodding pace, like me grinding the coffee beans.
But when nailed naked on a cross, if the crucifiers do the job skilfully, i'd twist and dance,
up and down, side to side, writhing and squirming, twirling my hips and shaking my butt,
so long as i had blood and breath in me.

 

[Eulalia]

Just remember the old wisdom, if you pay a whore, don't be surprised if she tells you how great you are!

In inches or centimeters?

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

pace Pr Pr, I think (certainly sung at that pace) it's the sails that would be rising, rather than the anchor -
weighing an anchor would require a more plodding pace,

Indeed the pace as sung there is fast for a capstan. However, I have never seen the verb weigh used concerning sails and always concerning anchors. Knowing your knowledge and research skills, I expect to hear momentarily of an OED entry to prove me wrong.

 

[Eulalia]

Indeed the pace as sung there is fast for a capstan. However, I have never seen the verb weigh used concerning sails and always concerning anchors. Knowing your knowledge and research skills, I expect to hear momentarily of an OED entry to prove me wrong.

'weigh' is what you do with the anchor, but I don't think the Drunken Sailor song mentions that, 'hurr-ay and up she rises' sounds (and feels, believe me, I've done it) hauling up the sails on a tall ship.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

'weigh' is what you do with the anchor, but I don't think the Drunken Sailor song mentions that, 'hurr-ay and up she rises' sounds (and feels, believe me, I've done it) hauling up the sails on a tall ship.

I yield on a discussion not nearly uplifting enough for this thread. Instead, Here is a recording from 1906 made by Percy Granger of Charles Rosher of London, England singing an early version.

What shall we do with a drunken sailor - Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | British Library - Sounds

Library of Congress disc number: 58A; Grainger's cylinder number: 148; Grainger's melody number: 154; Roud index number: 322; Performance note: two verses only; voice muffled; Recording note: moderate/loud surface noise.

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Granger in 1924 incorporated the melody in his "Scotch Strathspey And Reel." which is undoubtedly uplifting

 

[Hugin&Munin]

In inches or centimeters?

Yes, I believe there' a tiny difference.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

Australian born with Celtic roots, Ella followed her Scottish and Irish ancestry back to the Highlands and Isles and found her passion for Celtic music and song.

 

[Eulalia]

I yield on a discussion not nearly uplifting enough for this thread. Instead, Here is a recording from 1906 made by Percy Granger of Charles Rosher of London, England singing an early version.

What shall we do with a drunken sailor - Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | British Library - Sounds

Library of Congress disc number: 58A; Grainger's cylinder number: 148; Grainger's melody number: 154; Roud index number: 322; Performance note: two verses only; voice muffled; Recording note: moderate/loud surface noise.

sounds.bl.uk

Granger in 1924 incorporated the melody in his "Scotch Strathspey And Reel." which is undoubtedly uplifting

I was listening to that splendidly lively performance while watching the video clip @poem21045 posted at

Fit, Lovely Ladies Crucified

I agree with you, but she could adopt a different facial expression because she gives the impression of sulking and "pouting" as we say at home. Otherwise she is well balanced; a beautiful and harmonious body. "Cheer up luv,(!!),it might never 'appen !!",as we say,in the U.K. Just remember...

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'hey-ho and up she rises' indeed!

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

I yield on a discussion not nearly uplifting enough for this thread. Instead, Here is a recording from 1906 made by Percy Granger of Charles Rosher of London, England singing an early version.

What shall we do with a drunken sailor - Percy Grainger ethnographic wax cylinders - World and traditional music | British Library - Sounds

Library of Congress disc number: 58A; Grainger's cylinder number: 148; Grainger's melody number: 154; Roud index number: 322; Performance note: two verses only; voice muffled; Recording note: moderate/loud surface noise.

sounds.bl.uk

Granger in 1924 incorporated the melody in his "Scotch Strathspey And Reel." which is undoubtedly uplifting

Listen closely and Rosher pronounces "early" as we do now, not "earl-eye", which is apparently a later affectation.

 

[Jackie1111]

I was immediately despatched to the Coffee Shop cellar and have been grinding devotedly ever since,

And you make the BEST coffee, Eulalia! I'm always uplifted whenever I pay a visit downstairs at the Coffee Shop to watch you grind some new beans for me.

All that work keeps you in great shape, by the way.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

I love Irish music, I love Galway, Oranmore and the Burren area, I hope one day I can go back there again.

 

[Praefectus Praetorio]

@Jackie1111 should like this. Some uplifting tango with stunning still images, all of which serve to illustrate the highly evocative and truthful observation that dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.