The Dead Horse The Dead Horse Lesley Nelson-Burns Information Lyrics The Dead Horse was a ceremonial sung at the end of a sailor's first month at sea. It was to celebrate the end of the sailor's debt to the ship - when he started working for himself. The dead horse metaphor is from the practice of horse-trading. When a deal was made there was no going back, even if the horse died right after the deal was struck. So you could be paying for something that was never any use. Sailor's were traditionally paid a month in advance when they signed on. With the advance he could pay for boots, knives, weather gear, etc.

Exactus Pro 2011 Serial. Dil Chura Liya Mp3 Song Download there. However many agents took the advance money and shanghaiied sailors aboard, other sailors spent the money on drink and women before sailing, and some were cheated out of it by merchants. So very often the sailor had nothing to show for a month's work. Hence, the 'dead horse.' For the ceremony sailors fashioned horses of shipboard scrap to drag around the deck. They hoisted them aloft and threw them into the ocean. A poor old man came riding by Chorus 1 And we say so, and we hope so A poor old man came riding by Chorus 2 Oh, poor old horse.

Says I, 'Old man, your horse will die.' Chorus 1 Says I, 'Old man, your horse will die.'

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Chorus 2 And if he dies we'll tan his skin Chorus 1 And if he don't we'll ride him again. Chorus 2 For one long month I rode him hard Chorus 1 For one long month we all rode him hard.