Carolan's tune "Princess Royal/Miss Mcdermott" at Lesleys's website is the Princess Royal in the Vaughan Williams, and the Arethusa in the Henry Wood. Lesley has three different sets of words to this tune but none of them mention the Princess Royal. Bold Arethusa and Nelson's praise are nominally nautical, but not really shanties.

This tune does not fit any of the Princess Royal/Kelly the Pirate songs in the Digital Tradition Database, but it is the progenitor of the Princes(s) Royal tunes used in the Morris traditions of:

• Abingdon (set dance)
• Adderbury (set dance)
• Bampton (jig)
• Bidford-on-Avon (set dance)
• Bledington (jig)
• Bucknell (jig)
• Ducklington (jig)
• Fieldtown (Leafield etc) (jig)
• Longborough (jig)
• Oddington (jig)
• Sherborne (jig)
• Stanton Harcourt (set dance)

Also, in the Ilmington tradition, it is the tune used for the jig Nelson's Praise.

(Set dances were done by a set of 6 men, while jigs were solos performed by one or two men).

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