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Thread #159399   Message #3776860
Posted By: MGM·Lion
05-Mar-16 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: Drunken Sailor-Dickens question for Gibb
Shanties (or chanteys if you prefer) refd now & again in Moby Dick though, Steve, about an American whaler; which, like all whalers, would have had a pretty cosmopolitan crew: eg

"the hands at the windlass, who roared forth some sort of a chorus about the girls in Booble Alley" - ch 22 'Merry Christmas'

— which I would take to be "Haul Away for Rosie" or a close variant thereof.

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