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Thread #126347 Message #2864246
Posted By: Lighter
14-Mar-10 - 11:30 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?

More on "Sally Brown":

James Taft Hatfield, "Some Nineteenth Century Shanties," Journal of American Folklore (Apr.-June, 1946), p. 111. Heard in 1886 on a voyage from Pensacola to Nice.

J. E. Thomas, "Sea Shanties," Journal of the English Folk-Song Society (Dec., 1928), p. 97. Coll. from John Farr (b. 1850) at Gwithian, Cornwall, 1926.