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Thread #126347   Message #2867125
Posted By: John Minear
18-Mar-10 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
So we know that "A hundred years ago" was in San Francisco around 1850, and in Hawaii in 1848. And we also have "Storm along, Stormy" in Hawaii in 1848.

And sometime prior to 1852, we have "Storm along, my stormy" and "Cheerymen" [Is Mr. Moon hearing these songs on the way to Melbourne, or is he remembering them from his voyage "up the Mediterranean"?] We also have   "Hi, yi, yi, yi, Mister Storm roll on, Storm Along, Storm Along," … "All on the plains of Mexico,"… "Aha, we're bound away, on the wild Missouri" in 1856 from Liverpool to New York.

And we have "Goodbye, My Riley", "Carry Me Along" at Brooklyn (p. 165); and "Whiskey for my Johnny," "Storm Along, my Rosa" (p. 22); "Rolling River," "Cheerily She Goes" (p. 142); "Paddy on the Railway," "We're Homeward Bound" (p. 312) from George Edward Clark in the early '60's.

Thanks, Lighter.