The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74809 Message #1308118
Posted By: Lighter
26-Oct-04 - 07:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Watchet Sailor
Subject: RE: Folklore: looking for the title of song
Usually called "The Watchet Sailor." First lines are usually "As Jack was a-walking down Watchet's Swain [?] Street,/ An old brother shipmate he happened to meet."
Collected by Cecil Sharp, recorded by The Yetties on LP "All at Sea."