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Thread #113841 Message #2424785
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Aug-08 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Unto the East Indies We Were Bound
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Unto the East Indies We Were Bound
Rocks of Scilly, collected from James Young, by Creighton and Senior, pub. in "Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia, pp. 200-201, 1950, is a variant. Also collected in 1951 from Kate McCarthy, pub. as "Seafaring Song," in MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada," 2004.
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