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Thread #126347 Message #2894888
Posted By: Lighter
26-Apr-10 - 06:53 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
The website lyrics are not quite as Grainger published them in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society (May, 1908), p. 241:
(4) But you'll ever be my heart's devotion. (twice)
(5) For your return my heart is burning. (twice)
(6) When you return, we'll then get married. (twice)
(7) I'll not regret I ever tarried. (twice) etc.
My guess is that the "etc." merely reflects the idea - possibly suggested by informant Perring - that one might ad lib in a similar vein as long as necessary. "SB" is the only shanty in Grainger's article that ends this way.
All of Grainger's musical transcriptions are unusually detailed as to the singer's ornaments, variations, changes in volume, and so on.