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Shogun Discovering world legacy of shanties by 'Shogun' (266* d) RE: Discovering world legacy of shanties by 'Shogun' 07 Mar 21


Gibb Sahib

Yes, I had more issues with this shanty. The first issue was, is that Stan Hugill gives a description of this song and the first verse, but he seems to treat this shanty for capstan. So I did found the original book, and... My very eyes were even bigger when I discovered not one only two, songs one described as: "this song as 'Capstan.'", and another labeled: "The same: as a hauling chanty'". My question is:
If Stan Hugill gave this song as another version of "Sacramento", the usual capstan shanty, why he didn't provide the first matched type example? And he gave another "Hauling one instead.

About the type of hauling, well I did approach the other way round, probably will be harder if I knew Patterson was a poet. So my approach was: here shanty, you figure out how it works, and in first thought was must be halyard. So option, in this case, was, one pulse a chorus line, or one in first and two in second, and this option with tweaked of accent was work, and kinda match intuitively for me. The funny story I called to my mentor and friend Simon Spalding, and in the first thought, He has exact same intuition :)

What I also discover in Stan Hugill's book, he sometimes gives not exact titles of reference books, so sometimes it complicates things for me.


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