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Thread #92279 Message #1762952
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Jun-06 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I've Got Sixpence, Jolly, Jolly Sixpence
Subject: RE: who wrote: I've Got Sixpence.. Jolly Jolly
Little Robyn's reference to the Hugill shanty must be to a volume different from "Shanties from the Seven Seas" as published in the U. S. edition. It does not appear in the U. S. A. editions (p. 180 is "Ranzo Ray").
The only "Rolling Home" is the well-known "... to dear old England," pp. 146-150.