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GUEST,ottery Modern(ish) Sailor songs by real salts? (41) RE: Modern(ish) Sailor songs by real salts? 11 Aug 18

Also, I can't prove it, but folk osmosis has made me believe that "The Bonnie Ship The Diamond" was written by a real sailor, who may (so A.L. Lloyd speculated) have been lost in a disaster in a Greenland bay.

Bit too early for your time-frame though - early nineteenth century.

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