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I seem to remember some old Mudcat thread where "Jolly Roving Tar" was even traced back to a music hall song. The song lost a couple of superfluous verses shipping out to sea and by the time Frank and Ann Warner collected it back ashore the song was nicely folk-processed.

No doubt Great Big Sea does a great job leading it, and they may have processed it a bit more, but I would hope they would credit the Warners for collecting the song, and making it available to the folk music community. I still have one of Frank's albums where he is singing this song with his usual great gusto!

Charley Noble