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Thread #126347 Message #2867633
Posted By: Snuffy
19-Mar-10 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
The Carpenter indexcontains the following mentions of publications of Stormalong:
White Ethiopian Melodies ( 1851 ) Is this an earlier version of Christy and White, 1854?
Storm Along, Stormy - O I wish I was in Mobile Bay
Harper's Magazine ( 1882 ) two versions
Storm Along, Stormy - Old Stormy he was a bully old man
Storm Along, Stormy - Old Stormy he is dead and gone
Stephen B. Luce Naval Songs ( 1883 )
Old Storm Along - Old Storm Along is dead and gone
Plus a version collected from Stanton King in 1929
Storm Along - Stormy's gone, that good old man
And four versions from ex-seamen, the earliest of whom first shipped in 1866