Originally Posted By: Faldage
Of course, the "sailor" version doens't have anything to do with the weather. The 'red sky at night' part means there's a riot in town. The townies are mad at the sailors for stealing all their women and the sailors are burning the downtown area. The 'red sky at morning' part means that the shore patrol has come with their paddy wagons with the flashing red lights and are hauling off any sailors stupid enough to hang around that long.

The paddy wagons will come and get you for spreading falsifications and yes I can make it rhyme easy.

Rood by nacht, schipper slaap zacht! Rood in de morgen, schipper's zorgen ; oops, it was just the other way around, so...

You know all these sailor's words come from Dutch and English together. Ask the house-lingoist.