"STORMALONG"

We've been accumulating a good deal of information on various versions of "Stormalong" and I thought I would pull it together in chronological form. As far as I can tell, this is what we have *so far*. I realize that this chanty shows up in a number of other collections that we've looked at here, but we haven't mentioned it specifically in relation to those particular collections.

{sometime between 1845 and 1853} THE MERCHANT VESSEL  Charles Nordhoff, (1856)

"Old Stormy"
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{1848} NA MOTU, OR REEF-ROAMING IN THE SOUTH SEAS Edward T. Perkins, (1854)

"Storm along, Stormy!"
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{1852( perhaps recalling somewhat earlier events)} "News from Our Digger," Mr. Moon, TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, XX 293 (1853)

"Storm along, my Stormy"
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{1854} ETHIOPIAN MELODIES, Christy and White, 1854

"Storm along. Stormy."
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{May, 1856} William Jackson Palmer, "Diary," A BUILDER OF THE WEST: THE LIFE OF GEN. WILLIAM JACKSON PALMER, John Stirling Fisher (1939)

"Storm Along, Storm Along"
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{1858} OBERLIN STUDENTS' MONTHLY, article by I. Allen

"Storm along my stormies" [windlass]
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{1859} "Songs of the Chantey-Man", THE BELLMAN, Captain John Robinson

"Old Stormy"
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{early to mid 1860's?} SEVEN YEARS OF A SAILOR'S LIFE, George Edward Clark, (1867)

"Storm Along, My Rosa"
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{1867} SLAVE SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES, William James Allen

"Shock Along, John"
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{1869} THE ARK OF ELM ISLAND, Rev. Elijah Kellogg, (1871)

Isaiah's Song "Stow me long, stow me!" [warping to dock]
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{1870s} George Pattison, THE CAREY COLLECTION, (1924), from Warren Fahey

"Mr. Stormalong"
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{1870s} Malcolm Forbes, Adelaide, THE CAREY COLLECTION, (1925), from Warren Fahey

"Mister Stormalong"
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{1882} "Sailor Songs", Henry Mills Alden, HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME 65

"Old Stormy, he was a bully man"
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