{"id":7212,"date":"2021-06-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2021-06-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T05:00:00","slug":"tale-of-the-jolly-mariner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/tale-of-the-jolly-mariner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of the Jolly Mariner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1913-06-17\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\"><em>Omaha Daily Bee, June 17, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n<\/em>\n He was a jolly mariner\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That sailed the seven seas;\n By skill and pluck and sheer good luck\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He had escaped disease,\n And death in strife by gun and knife\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And other things like these.\n \n Alas! This gallant sailor man\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Was knocked down by a car!\n \u201cYou\u2019ll soon be dead,\u201d the doctor said,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cPerhaps there\u2019s one afar\n To whom you\u2019d send some word, my friend.\u201d\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Up spake the gallant tar:\n \n \u201cYou take this message, mate,\u201d he said,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cEre I my moorin\u2019 slips.\n And find my bride and say I died\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With her name on my lips!\n Her name, you say? Well, one is May;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But I\u2019ve sailed several trips!\n \n \u201cThere\u2019s Sally Brown, of Dover town,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And Milly, Jane and Nell;\n If you will look in that there book\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You\u2019ll find out where they dwell.\n There is a score, or maybe more\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You won\u2019t? Then I\u2019ll get well!\u201d\n \n He was a jolly mariner\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That rose up, strong and fit,\n And then, said he, \u201cWell, hully gee!\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m bruised a little bit;\n But I\u2019ve my life and nary a wife\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is left a widow yit!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He was a jolly mariner<br \/>\n That sailed the seven seas;<br \/>\n By skill and pluck and sheer good luck<br \/>\n He had escaped disease,<br \/>\n And death in strife by gun and knife<br \/>\n And other things like these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}