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Thread #119776   Message #2607452
Posted By: Lighter
08-Apr-09 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
Subject: RE: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
I think you're the first to record the singing of this one, G.S.

Masefield entered the school-ship Conway as a student in 1891, at thirteen, and made his second and final transatlantic voyage as a sailor in 1895, a full generation before Hugill went to sea. So presumably he heard most or all of his shanties in the early 1890s.