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Thread #126347 Message #2856729
Posted By: Charley Noble
05-Mar-10 - 09:27 AM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
John-
"Bonaparte's Retreat" is still a standard contradance tune.
That is indeed a puzzling revision of Dana. In my volume the "quoted" paragraph is on pages 259-260. And I have you both to thank for what just happened to the pile of books on my desktop when I pulled TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST out from the bottom. ;~(
Charley Noble