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GUEST,Ruthy DeHolton Lyr Req: Tubby Hook (Arthur Guiterman) (6) Tubby Hook (Louis Untermeyer) 17 Feb 11


This poem is also contained in the anthology "This Singing World", edited by Louis Untermeyer, and published in 1926.

I still have the copy of "This Singing World" that I had in my 5th grade home-schooling course (Calvert Course). I loved this particular poem and for years could recite the whole thing.

It's interesting to note that the introduction to the poem in "This Singing World" is almost exactly the same as the intro in Guiterman's "Ballads of Old New York", except that the ferry has a different name!

"About two-thirds of a mile below Spuyten Duyvil, at the old settlement of Inwood from where the Dyckman Street ferry carries picnic-parties across the Hudson to the Palisades, there is a rock-edged cape which, before filling-in operations changed its rounded outline, by its appearance alone justified its old Dutch name of 'Tobbe Hoeck' -- the Cape of the Tub -- now rendered 'Tubby Hook.'


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