Stokers' Songs

[Michelle Tanner]

Hi Kritina, Just picked up on your comment re F Scott Fitzgerald (I know! a long time after you made it! lol)I found it interesting because F.S.F's mother was called McQuillan prior to marriage, and a William McQuillan was a Stoker who lost his life on Titanic.

 

[Stanley C Jenkins]

"FIRING THE MAURETANIA"
Although this is an old thread, I think I know the answer. The tune of Firing the Mauretania is probably the same as the navvy song WORKING ON THE RAILWAY, which begins:

"In eighteen hundred and forty-one,
I put me moleskin breeches on,
Thought I'd go and have some fun,
Working on the railway....."

 

[daveuk2002_yahoo_com]

This is a very old thread I know but my grandfather Harry Senior, one of the firemen used to sing Shenandoah as he was working.