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GUEST,B Stan Hugill - the real words? (59* d) RE: Stan Hugill - the real words? 25 Jul 12

Stan's book does have all the shanties in clean versions and I am sure that there are things that were left to the imagination. What is the true meaning of a "Hog's eye". W.B. Whall's collection of shanties has any "questionable" verses left out, leaving many of the working shanties too short to be really singable. His defence of this was that:
"Shanties and work-songs sung at sea are of the vilest filth!"
Instead of Political Correctness, can we have some historical accuracy please?

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