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"Shiver my top-sails, my Laſs, if I know a better way." "Shiver me timbers" (or "shiver my timbers" in Standard English) is an exclamation in the form of a mock oath usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise, or annoyance.
Shiver My timbers (or My) Timbers may refer to: Shiver my timbers, an exclamation; Shiver My Timbers (1931), an Our Gang short; Shiver Me Timbers! (1934), a Popeye the Sailor cartoon short; Shiver Me Timbers, a song on a 1974 studio album by Tom Waits
Tom Waits has a song called "Shiver me Timbers". Would it be interesting to mention it as an example of a recent example of the expression "shiver me timbers"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.117.40.134 09:34, 28 November 2011 (UTC) I came here, expecting to see it referenced. Bette Midler covered the track, as well.
Later that year, his second full-length album Shiver Me Timbers was released, and because of an agreement between father and son, Jerome Froese's Moonpop label obtained the rights of over eighty Tangerine Dream titles, meaning that Jerome's and Edgar's works would be re-released separately.
The songs on this mini-digipak CD were recorded during the same January 2008 Massachusetts barn sessions as Covers, and some of them had already been released as bonus tracks for that album. Track listing
The song "Shenandoah" appears to have originated with American and Canadian voyageurs or fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes and has developed several different sets of lyrics. Some lyrics refer to the Oneida chief Shenandoah and a canoe-going trader who wants to marry his daughter.
This generated two distinctive African American slave musical forms, the spiritual (sung music usually telling a story) and the field holler (sung or chanted music usually involving repetition of the leader's line). [1] We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a spiritual. [1] As a folk song originating in a repressed culture, the song's origins are lost.
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