The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157877 Message #3729681
Posted By: Steve Gardham
11-Aug-15 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: Nineteenth-Century Folk Songs
Subject: RE: Nineteenth-Century Folk Songs
That's correct, Jack. According to the many threads here by very well-researched people (Gibb Sahib for one) there are no records of shanties being sung prior to 1800 and precious little before the 1830s.