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Thread #128220 Message #2874267
Posted By: John Minear
28-Mar-10 - 08:01 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
With regard to the NA MOTU reference that I posted above, I forgot that there was another reference to "Stormy" on p. 97. Here is what Lighter had in a note that first called this to my attention:
1854 Edward T. Perkins, "Na Motu, or Reef-Rovings in the South Seas" p. 97 [ref. to 1848; Perkins had served on an American whaling ship]:
I dug his grave with a silver spade;
O! bullies, O!
And I lowered him down with a golden chain,
A hundred years ago!
P. 99: "I jumped onto a rock, swung my tarpaulin, and sung that good old song—
'O ! storm along !
O! my roving blades, storm along, stormy!'"