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Robert B. Waltz	Lyr Req: Seafaring ghost songs (3)	RE: Lyr Req: Seafaring ghost songs	23 Oct 23
The Ballad Index has sixteen songs with the keyword combination "ghost" and either "ship" or "sailor" or "navy." In descending order of number of citations: The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (The Gosport Tragedy; Pretty Polly) [Laws P36A/B] Lowlands (My Lowlands Away) The Ghostly Crew [Laws D16] Nancy of Yarmouth (Jemmy and Nancy; The Barbadoes Lady) [Laws M38] The Nightingale [Laws M37] The Flying Dutchman (Vanderdecken) [Laws K23] Beam of Oak (Rambling Boy, Oh Willie) Ben Backstay Stormy Weather Boys Admiral Hosier's Ghost The Fog-bound Vessel The Wreck of the Glenaloon Bill Jones ('Twas off the coast of Guinea Land) Willie Was As Fine a Sailor The Knight's Ghost [Child 265] The Cruise of the Bouncing Sally Some of those are a bit marginal, but most of them are clearly sailor/ghost songs. [Some song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]

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