Rob Winder - Towrope Girls

Sailors spending a long time at sea would long for the time when they would return home to their wives, sweethearts, mothers or other female companions. Looking forward to the moment when the towropes would be passed aboard to haul them to the quayside, they would imagine invisible hawsers stretching across the ocean being pulled by their waiting women, hauling them home.
The lyrics are from a poem by Cicely Fox-Smith (Sea Songs and Ballads 1917 - 1922), and are set to a traditional melody (Quare Bungle Rye). I learned this from the singing of Tom Lewis and it was a great favourite of the regulars at The Royal Oak, Lower Bristol Rad, Bath when I used to perform there.