Mudcat Café message #2892067

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Thread #128220 Message #2892067
Posted By: Lighter
22-Apr-10 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties

See here (pp. 206-07) for a brief (and of course inconclusive) musicological discussion of "Round the Corn, Sally":

http://books.google.com/books?id=E2OQlWHzjvEC&pg=PA206&dq=%22Roun'+de+corn,+sally%22&lr=&cd=5#v=onepage&q=%22Roun'%20de%20corn%2C%20sally%22&f=false

I don't share the author's certainty that the shanty (with "corner" rather than "corn")"surely" came first.