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Re: Stan Rogers: what does "Clyde in coal" mean?

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Subject: Re: Stan Rogers: what does "Clyde in coal" mean?
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by: Taukingur - Wed, 1 Nov 2023 20:54 UTC

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 01:55:30 UTC+3, james.k...@gmail.com wrote:
> It means he set out from the River Clyde, with a cargo of coal.
>
> Hope that clears that up. David.C and Rorbertdb are on the button lol.
>
> J
> On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 11:04:53 PM UTC+1, Joe Fineman wrote:
> > robertdb...@gmail.com writes:
> >
> > > On Friday, July 27, 2001 at 3:45:26 PM UTC-4, Bazinkum wrote:
> > >> From the song "Flowers Of Bermuda" by Stan Rogers, what does the
> > >> second line -Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal- refer to?
> > >>
> > >> Clyde a place, I assume?
> > >> Why is it "in coal"?
> > >> Is the captain 21 years old, or did it take him 21 days to get to
> > >> Bermuda?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks.
> > > The ship is a collier (Nightingale)- that means she carries coal.
> > > There's really no mystery here.
> >
> > Beware! This reply to a 25-year-old inquiry is unlikely to reach its
> > author. I presume this posting is another result of the fact that
> > Google has no notion of how newsgroups (used to) work.
> >
> > The current venue for inquiries of this kind is www.mudcat.org, the
> > monster that swallowed rec.music.folk.
> >
> > The Clyde mentioned is a river in Scotland, passing thru Glasgow.
> > --
> > --- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
> >
> > ||: In pene paritas. :||
Replying 15 years later haha

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Stan Rogers: what does "Clyde in coal" mean?	Taukingur