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GUEST,Phil d'Conch	Maritime work song in general (725* d)	RE: Maritime work song in general	12 Dec 23
“...we leave the Trekroner and the Sound, ringing with sailors' songs as many a tall ship about us heaves her anchor and makes sail to the chance puffs and catspaws, and in due time creeping along the south and eastern coast of Sweden...” [Last August in the Baltic, Fraser's Magazine, December, 1855] “The sun rose brightly next morning, and soon afterwards the slumbers of those passengers who had been lucky enough to get any, were rudely broken by the band of The Orient-namely, two fiddles and a fife-striking up The Girl I left behind me, and the men stamping round the capstan in time to the melody, whilst weighing anchor. Such as were rash enough to venture on deck found themselves in everybody's way and their own….” [On Board the Orient, Chambers's Journal, no.312, 24 December 1860]

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