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Thread #22855   Message #1443049
Posted By: Charley Noble
24-Mar-05 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: Penguin: Ratcliffe Highway
Subject: RE: Penguin: Ratcliffe Highway
Q-

Thanks for the extra verse for the broadside "Ratcliff Highway-3/Sailor's Frolic" and for the correction of C. Fox Smith's transcription of the song with regard to "figureheadS."

I now find "Sailor's Frolic/Life in the East" in my reprinted copy of John Ashton's 1891 book entitled REAL SAILOR SONGS, pp. 145-146. That version is identical to what's been posted from C. Fox Smith, plus the additional verse "At the fam'd Barley Mow," and repeats her error with regard to "figureheadS" in the second verse.

Of course, in Ashton's book I've run across another Ratcliff Highway song with a similar cast of characters and taverns which I'll post later, after I've indulged in another virtual spree.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble