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Thread #49444   Message #2827183
Posted By: shipcmo
01-Feb-10 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
Subject: RE: Hugill/Dana's missing shanties
Slightly off topic; as I just finished reading the Mystic Seaport publication of F. P. Harlow's "Chanteying Aboard American Ships", and noted that he too commented about those "not fit to print". He does however quote:
"My father's a hedger and ditcher,
My mother does nothing but spin,
While I hunt whales for a living.
Good Lord how the money comes in."