Answer to the question who authored the Rosabella words.

'Twas me, Sean Laffey.

This is the version I sang with Jerry Cobb of Jenkins' Ear in the early 1990s and gave to Jack Harrison for the Warp Four Recording in 1996.


I also used it in a stage show, George and Stan the Last Windjammer Boys , the story of the Garthpool's last voyage*, it had a jaunty twenties dance band feel to it.

*(80th anniversary of that voyage this year and Hull are doing nothing about it)



I've lost the password to that web site, once I get it reactivated I'll add some links to this discussion here.

Cheers

Sean L.