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Thread #118540   Message #2564068
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Feb-09 - 01:38 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nordhoff Chantey 'We're Going Away'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nordhoff Chantey 'We're Going Away'
The chantey does have elements of "Across the Western Ocean," as well as "Liverpool Packet," "As Off to the South'ard We Go," and even "Across the Wide Missouri."
Of course, a good chantey-man would know many verses, and could invent more, and I expect that they combined ideas and verses from different chanteys as the mood took them.