A.L. Lloyd 1952
‘White Stocking Day’ was the day each month when a sailor’s female relatives dressed up in their best clothes to collect his half-pay or ‘allotment’. Lloyd asserted it was based on a collected song (maybe from the South Georgia Islands?) but he also wrote songs himself and said they were collected.
Kate Rusby: Bold Riley – Kate Rusby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAQn9c_u5aQ
Oh the rain it rains all day long, Bold Riley-o, Bold Riley, And the northern wind, it blows so strong, Bold Riley-o has gone away. Chorus Goodbye my sweetheart, goodbye my dear-o Bold Riley-o, Bold Riley, Goodbye my darlin’, goodbye my dear-o, Bold Riley-o has gone away. Well come on, Mary, don’t look glum, Come White-stocking Day you’ll be drinkin’ rum We’re outward bound for the Bengal Bay, Get bending, me lads, it’s a hell-of-a-way,