noun the mythic three graces of a sailor's life. A (presumed) later variation of 'beer, bum and bacca'. Rum, Bum and Concertina, a pun on 'wine, women and song', is the title of the second part of George Melly's autobiography published in 1977. In 1992, the Pogues, reflecting an earlier view of naval life, released an album entitled Rum, Sodomy and the Lash UK, 1973