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Thread #119776   Message #2682619
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
17-Jul-09 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
Subject: RE: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
Title: Run, Let the Bulgine Run

Print: Hugill; LA Smith; Sharp; Colcord ("Run with the Bullgine"); Terry; Bullen; Davis/Tozer
Performers: Kasin & Adrianowicz (2006); Gibb Sahib; ?...

Notes:
Classic rare/broken chantey?
Many major collectors print it, with remarkably similar tunes. Yet, it does not seem to be popular in performance today. Kasin & Adrianowicz had to revive it from Hugill's text (also changing a melodic phrase). Hard to gauge how much more it's been done, since the similar title causes it to get mixed with the far better known "Clear the Track"/"Eliza Lee".

Interestingly, this chantey has a "way hey -- oooooh" yodel-ish solo phrase like that has appeared in several of the chanteys already compared here.