20th century Davy Jones' Locker

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world war ii poster makes reference davy jones s locker. lubber clumsy or careless sailor (from landlubber, naval slang greenhorn).


in j. m. barrie s 1904 play , 1911 novel peter , wendy, captain hook sings song:



yo ho, yo ho, pirate life,

the flag o skull , bones,

a merry hour, hempen rope,

and hey davy jones.




a navy song, anchors aweigh , refers davy jones in current lyrics adopted in 1920s:



roll out tnt, anchors aweigh.

sail on victory

and sink bones davy jones! hooray!!




the comic strip terry , pirates (sunday strip march 3, 1935, 10th picture) contains line boy! - m flirtin ol davey jones! - weepin bomb had better work! . said terry climbing outside of ship @ sea while fighting pirates.


the 1959 broadway musical davy jones locker bil baird s marionettes had two-week run @ morosco theatre.


late 20th-century songs refer davy jones include paul mccartney s song morse moose , grey goose , beastie boys song rhymin , stealin .


in english translations of adventures of tintin, character captain haddock makes occasional references davy jones. also, secret of unicorn, on page 17, while recounting sir francis haddock s manuscript tintin, references pirate ship raising red flag , says, red pennant!... no quarter given!... fight death, no prisoners taken! understand? if re beaten, s every man davy jones s locker! however, not case in original version, since idiom exists in english (in french, uses archaic french idiom, que le grand cric me croque ! , not particularly related sailors , has nothing davy jones).


in genesis song dodo/lurker 1981 album abacab, sixth stanza has lyrics: 1 got dream of love, deep ocean go, do? siren team davy jones, , trap him @ bottom of sea?


the iron maiden song run silent run deep (about submarine warfare) contains lines: lifeboats shattered, hull torn/the tar black smell of burning oil/on way down davy jones/every man himself – re on own...


the band clutch have song entitled big news , says, when played backwards, them bones, them bones, them dry, dry bones/ come down locker of davy jones .


in 1960s television series monkees episode hitting high seas , character davy jones (played musician davy jones) receives special treatment while kidnapped in ship claims related original davy jones, grandfather. meanwhile, fellow band members held hostage, leading various humorous situations. fact jones musician shared name legendary seafarer has led number of puns swapping 2 in decades followed.


in uk tv sitcom fools , horses ( frog s legacy ), del boy mentions s not going end in davy jones locker @ end.


in 1994 movie pagemaster, adventure (patrick stewart) , richard tyler (macaulay culkin) shipwrecked, , when richard tyler asks happened fantasy , horror, adventure sadly replies, m afraid ve gone below davey jones.


the tears fears song don t drink water 1995 album raoul , kings of spain contains lines: saw swim / sink grave / down davy jones locker / under waves...


in cartoon haunted ship , aesop s fables series produced van beuren animation studios, davy jones depicted living skeleton wearing pirate s bicorn.

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