bully in the alley

i docked into the port of freo way hay, bully in the alley i walked around and felt so freo bully in the shinbone al back in the maritime days, everyone was always getting bully in the alley. this was sailor slang for having a really great time - a time so great that you woke up the next day in a disgusting old alley, and when the captain would call his roll, any missing sailor would be marked as B.I.A. - “bully in the alley” and the ship would sail on without them, and the sailors would sing this song. help me bob i'm bully in the alley way hay, bully in the alley help me bob i'm bully in the alley bully in the shinbone al it is a rollicking shanty with many verses of local-historical interest, however, in my experience, the verse about freo is not true. i have never felt bully or freo while walking here. in fremantle, nobody ever moves like a human being. everybody walks like enemies, hostile sets of pixels in an old arcade game. the best trick is to memorise their patterns, and…