No Bananas Past the Breakwater! 🍌⚓ | The Wrong Pub Again | Brixham

Brixham quay. Before first light. Cook lifts the cloth. Apples. Aye. Pears. Aye. Lemons. Fair. And— Stop. "No Bananas Past the Breakwater!" — a Brixham Devon sea shanty about the oldest superstition on the British fishing fleet. The banana superstition is real. Has been for centuries. Still is. First tow down — cod-end bare. Second tow — not a scale. Third tow brought up a churchyard boot and a crab in a widow's veil. Bananas smile too clean for boats with tarred roots. Bad luck don't drown. It learns to swim. Next man brings yellow past the breakwater — rows home in the crate. Performed by The Wrong Pub Again The Wrong Pub Again — because someone has to be in the right wrong place. ───────────────────────── ⚓ THE WRONG PUB AGAIN Strange songs from stranger places. New song every week. ───────────────────────── #TheWrongPubAgain #BritishFolk #SeaShanty #Brixham #FishingSuperstition #Devon #BritishHistory #FolkMusic