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Thread #15756 Message #1965950
Posted By: Charley Noble
13-Feb-07 - 09:09 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Fathom the Bowl
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Fathom the Bowl - minor changes
Jim-
I'm sure the song goes back earlier than 1907, not that you're proposing that.
Charles Dibdin composed a similar song around 1800 titled "Sounding the Bowl," published in DIBDIN'S SEA SONGS, London,1854, pp. 10-11. It's verses are unrelated to "Fathom the Bowl" but the theme is the same.
Keep digging!
Linda-
I'll be interested in what you come up with as a substitute verse; we sing "her heart's black as the coal."
Cheerily,
Charley Noble