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"Can't Ye Hilo?"

Print: Hugill
Performers: Shanty Crew

Notes:
Another that Hugill got from Harding. I know of no other printing. The Shanty Crew recorded it, in 1996 I think (the album WHERE AM I TO GO). Hearing it, I presume that they developed their version from Hugill's text. Perhaps Mudcatter SPB-Cooperator (from Shanty Crew) will chime in with info.

I recorded my version, not having ever heard it sung, HERE

I'd be interested to hear other versions, or about other historical sources.

A digression --
My performance, above, is perhaps un-chantey-like -- it is just how I imagined the song and I felt like doing something different at the time. However, I have wondered about how appropriate a back-beat/off beat sort of feel is to singing some chanteys. (* I am not worried about what is "permissible" -- I've no insecurities about doing things unconventionally*)   I am just wondering what people's take is on it, whether they sometimes do it, how it might or might not have any historical basis, etc. Perhaps this has been discussed elsewhere? thanks

Gibb