Re: the handsome cabin boy

[turney@cs.cornell.edu (Jenn Turney)]

Woj writes:
  stev0 asks about the last line of "the handsome cabin boy". mine ears
  hear the phrase "`tis either you or me,' she said to the handsome cabin
  boy."

Not quite, Woj.  Try this:
  For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy.

This makes a little more sense if you stick the missing second verse
into the song:
  The captain's wife she being on board, she seem-ed in great joy
  To see her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
  And now and then she'd slip in a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
  But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy

Jenn
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