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Thread #126347   Message #2858007
Posted By: John Minear
06-Mar-10 - 09:13 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Q, there was some back and forth between this thread and the "Lost Shanties" thread earlier on. I had raised the question about these three chanties on Hugill's list of Dana's chanties because I could not find them. Apparently no one else could either. And now we know they weren't in either the original manuscript or the 1840 first edition - according to Kemble's edition.   Here are two earlier posts:

thread.cfm?threadid=126347&messages=316#2815482

thread.cfm?threadid=126347&messages=316#2816121

Unless somebody "finds" them somewhere in Dana I will continue to set them, or at least "Cheer Up, Sam" and "Roll the Old Chariot" aside until later.