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Thread #3503   Message #17740
Posted By: Dale Rose
17-Dec-97 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: Songs about women & the sea
Subject: RE: Women & the Sea
I have the Green Linnet version, and the notes are not completely helpful, but better than none at all. It does not credit Triona herself in anyway for the words, though that does not mean than she did not adapt them, of course. Her sources for some of the songs on the album are given, but this is not one of them.

Complete notes:
This is a fine, humorous version of the well known and widely sung "Female Drummer". The most striking feature here is that our brave maiden inclines to "run the rigging" instead of "beating upon the rub a dub". By all accounts, the high seas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must have been swarming with sailor lasses. She shows great spirit and resolves that if the navy ever needs her she'll "run the rigging" again. "Britannia and Women's Liberation rule the waves."!