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Thread #63697   Message #1037149
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
16-Oct-03 - 08:24 PM
Thread Name: Freedom of the Sea Songs
Subject: RE: Freedom of the Sea Songs
Tarpaulin Jacket (as Tarpauling Jacket) is in the Bodleian Library, broadsheet dated c. 1819-1844. Harding B25 (1883). It has the line "Let there be six sailors to carry me," etc. and is part of the "Trooper Cut Down" through "Streets of Laredo" complex. Certainly PD by now.