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Thread #104864   Message #2321471
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
21-Apr-08 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Round Cape Horn (Ewan MacColl)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Round Cape Horn (Ewan MacColl)
I like both versions, though the "Sweet Brown Knowe" is less distinguished than the "Amphitrite" tune.

BTW, as a young teenager, the English poet John Masefield trained as an apprentice on the schoolship HMS Conway in the 1890s. (As a school ship, that particular Conway wasn't sailing anywhere: its permanent berth was in the Mersey.)

Masefield made only two voyages in his teens before leaving the sea. He wrote the nostalgic "Sea Fever" some years later.