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Thread #126347   Message #2840150
Posted By: Charley Noble
15-Feb-10 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
"Hieland Laddie" is specifically cited (somewhere!) as an example of a shanty that the cotton screwers would use for compressing bales of cotton in the gulf ports. What's unclear is whether it originated there or was simply reprocessed.

Charley Noble