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Thread #101326   Message #2060356
Posted By: GUEST,JWB
24-May-07 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Scottish Sea Shanties
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Scottish Sea Shanties
Though not a traditional worksong, Archie Fisher's "The Final Trawl" is a call-and-response song that one could use at halyards.

I presented a paper years ago at the Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival Symposium, called "A Chronological Sample of Scottish Sea Songs". In the research I did for it I came across only one true chantey that is identifiable as Scottish: the aforementioned "Hieland Laddie". Who's to say that "Blow the Man Down" wasn't originally composed by a Scot?

Jerry