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"The Gal with the Blue Dress"

Print:Hugill; Davis & Tozer (1906 edition)
Performers: AL Lloyd; the Keelers; Shanty Jack

Notes:

I see that it appears in Davis & Tozer as a pump chantey, "The Girl with the Blue Dress," however I have not reviewed this. Hugill has it as a hauling song, from Harding. He suggests it was from a minstrel song. The title phrase to me, FWIW, sounds instinctively American such that I can easily see why it crops up in various songs of the folk and popular repertoires, though I couldn't say where it first originated. Despite obvious recurrences of phrases, such as in "Johnny Come Down to Hilo," this is a distinct song.

This again was recorded by AL Lloyd on the SAILOR'S GARLAND (1962) -- still hoping someday to hear a tale about how exactly that album may have interacted with Hugill's influence (and vice versa, perhaps). Other performers are also English; has it gone around much in America?

To me, the question lie again on whether Lloyd learned it from Hugill (or another oral source), in which case his recording may be considered a reference. If not, it is possible that the link has been broken, and the latter day renditions are based in text, like mine, which comes after not having heard any other singers
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