Ah yes, Sailor Dad. Thank you, GUEST, Wm!

Oh and Lighter, I wasn't chewing you out about the reference (in case you thought that)! I was just confused.

And thanks for reminding me of the Lloyd recording. I went back and listened and now I'm confused by another thing: Why Lloyd decided to perform so a-rhythmically / non-metrically. For all the talk people do about how "the rhythm of chanties is so important," they sing a lot in a way that has no sensible working rhythm.

I never got to listen to the Sailor Dad recording in LOC. I wonder if he added the extra beats or if Sweeney's Men did. If Hunt added them, I would guess it's because he was singing solo and so he had to sing both call and response, and needed to take a breath. Same goes for the "Sally Brown" collected by Sharp (1914) that I sang, which has an extra beat in the notation, though in a different location.

One reason why I'm interested is that I've theorized the cotton screwing songs included an extra beat as a matter of course. It would be interesting if that was preserved in Hunt's "Sally".