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Tootler Best book of sailor/sea/shanties songs? (19) RE: Best book of sailor/sea/shanties songs? 25 Aug 18

I have Roy Palmer's book "Boxing the Compass" which I have a feeling is the same book as The Oxford Book of Sea Songs. I'm not sure if it was an earlier or later title for the same book. Maybe someone can enlighten.

Either way, I see it as complementing Stan Hugill's book as it includes forebitters and songs about the sea as well as shanties and covers a longer time span. Hugill's book is specifically shanties though he does mention some shanties that were also sung as forebitters.

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