** Title: Audio: The Squid-Jigging Ground Author: Roger McGuinn Release Date: January 8, 2004

The Squid-Jigging Ground (Traditional)

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

and there's more lyin' down; While all kinds of fun, jokes, and tricks are begun As they wait for the squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

and there's more lyin' down; While all kinds of fun, jokes, and tricks are begun As they wait for the squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's men from Bar Harbour and men from the Tickle, In all kinds of motorboats, green, grey and brown; There's a red headed Tory out here in a dory Running down Squires on the squid-jiggin' ground.

While Uncle Bob Hawkins wears three pair o' stockin's Whenever he's out on the squid-jiggin' ground.

God bless my sou'wester, there's Skipper John Cheeby, He's the best hand at squid-jiggin' here, I'll be bound Hello!

He's jiggin' one now, The very first squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

He's jiggin' one now, The very first squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's a bustle, confusion, a wonderful hustle, They're all jiggin' squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's a bustle, confusion, a wonderful hustle, They're all jiggin' squid on the squid-jiggin' ground.

There's poor Uncle Billy, his whiskers are spattered With spots of the squid juice that's flying around; One poor little boy got it right in the eye, But they don't give a hang on the squid-jiggin' ground.

Says Bobby, "The squid are on top of the water, I just got me jigger 'bout one fathom down" When a squid in the boat squited right down his throat,

Says Bobby, "The squid are on top of the water, I just got me jigger 'bout one fathom down" When a squid in the boat squited right down his throat,

And he's swearin' like mad on the squid-jiggin' ground.

And if you get cranky without your silk hanky You'd better steer clear of the squid-jiggin' ground.

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather, With oilskins and boots and Cape Anns battened down; All sizes and figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the squid-jigging ground.

***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUDIO: THE SQUID-JIGGING GROUND*** *******

At first I began stepping carefully over large black hollows in the sand, and then a great black mark would show itself, which, offering no resistance to my stick as I drew it across its surface, I could only imagine to be caused by a flood of ink poured upon the beach by some horrible squid.

Porcupine fish are a delicacy, squid are esteemed, and even the devilfish is on the tables, hideous, repellent, slimy, horned, and tentacled; not mighty enough to crush out the life of the fisher, as was the horrific creature in Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea," whom his hero fought, yet menacing even when dead.

[Illustration: Common Squid, Loligo, cut transversely: a, foot or siphon; b, gills; c, mantle; d, shell; e, heart; f, main cavity, with intestines.

how mean, how sordid did he look to me, sulking there, his mottled double-chin crowded out upon his stock, his bow-legs wide to cradle the huge belly, his small eyes obstinately a-squint and partly shut, which lent a gross shrewdness to the expanse of fat, almost baleful, like the eye of a squid in its shapeless, jellied body!