This turnbuckle tensions the cable so it is taut.

Hubbuboo! by my soul, it is all true that I tell ye, I stood it myself, till the heart in my belly Flew up to my mouth, by the soul of Moll Kelly! And the thing sav'd my life was the drop of a dram.

My hand stings after knocking on the door so long.

Calypso began with the chantwells. These were slaves who entertained plantation owners in colonial times. The chantwells made up songs about the people they knew and the things that happened to them.