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Thread #134132   Message #3197737
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
29-Jul-11 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Lowlands Away
Subject: RE: 'Lowlands Away' - origins.
1914        Bullen, Frank. T. and W.F. Arnold. _Songs of Sea Labour_. London: Orpheus Music Publishing.

Bullen was a very experienced chantyman who seems to have learned most of his stuff in the 1870s. His collection contains the following.

13. Lowlands Away.

Lowlands away I heard them say
Lowlands, lowlands away my John
Lowlands away I heard them say,
My dollar an' a half a day.