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Thread #27166   Message #332248
Posted By: GUEST,ship'scat
01-Nov-00 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: Help: Help finding pre-1600's sea songs
Subject: RE: Help: Help finding pre-1600's sea songs
Heise, All

1549, "The Complaynt of Scotland", is the earliest the Boarding Party has come up with - older by a whisker than others. Its on our second album, Fair Winds and a Following Sea, Folk Legacy FSI109. The two pages of liner notes relate all the gory details.

Its in period lowland Scots but is definitly a shanty.

Being a call and response piece, its even singable.

KC