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Many versions of the popular sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" includes the following verse:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

Sources including Wikipedia claim that this is a reference to getting whipped with the cat o' nine tails, but Wikipedia itself states that this "failed verification" and I was unable to dredge up a reliable historical source on this on Google Scholar, which mostly dredges upreturns a lot of hits about Pushkin's novel.

For comparison, getting whipped while bent over a cannon is apparently known as "kissing the gunner's daughter" (although there's a similar dearth of sources here), while "letting the cat out of the bag" apparently has nothing to do with corporal punishment.

Many versions of the popular sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" includes the following verse:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

Sources including Wikipedia claim that this is a reference to getting whipped with the cat o' nine tails, but Wikipedia itself states that this "failed verification" and I was unable to dredge up a reliable historical source on this on Google Scholar, which mostly dredges up a lot of hits about Pushkin's novel.

For comparison, getting whipped while bent over a cannon is apparently known as "kissing the gunner's daughter" (although there's a similar dearth of sources here), while "letting the cat out of the bag" apparently has nothing to do with corporal punishment.

Many versions of the popular sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" includes the following verse:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

Sources including Wikipedia claim that this is a reference to getting whipped with the cat o' nine tails, but Wikipedia itself states that this "failed verification" and I was unable to dredge up a reliable historical source on this on Google Scholar, which mostly returns a lot of hits about Pushkin's novel.

For comparison, getting whipped while bent over a cannon is apparently known as "kissing the gunner's daughter" (although there's a similar dearth of sources here), while "letting the cat out of the bag" apparently has nothing to do with corporal punishment.

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Does "the captain's daughter" refer to a whip/cat o' nine tails?

Many versions of the popular sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" includes the following verse:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor,

Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.

Sources including Wikipedia claim that this is a reference to getting whipped with the cat o' nine tails, but Wikipedia itself states that this "failed verification" and I was unable to dredge up a reliable historical source on this on Google Scholar, which mostly dredges up a lot of hits about Pushkin's novel.

For comparison, getting whipped while bent over a cannon is apparently known as "kissing the gunner's daughter" (although there's a similar dearth of sources here), while "letting the cat out of the bag" apparently has nothing to do with corporal punishment.