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Thread #48974 Message #743306
Posted By: Charley Noble
06-Jul-02 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fire Down Below/William Fender Version
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fire Down Below/William Fender Version
Reporting back! Bob Walser confirms that:
"The tune is from the (wax) cylinder from which I transcribed it - see my article, 'Here We Come Home in a Leaky Ship!': The Shanty Collection of James Madison Carpenter, Folk Music Journal 7/4 (1998): 471-495. The arrangement...(t)he overlapping of the verse and chorus is my contribution and clearly moves the song from the deck to the stage."