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Thread #131992   Message #2983856
Posted By: Jack Campin
10-Sep-10 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: 1790s Rhode Island Music
Subject: RE: 1790s Rhode Island Music
One of the songs is an extraordinarily long and almost unbelievably gross version of "The Captain's Apprentice", dated to 1799 and set on a voyage to Carolina. Captain James flogs his cabin boy Richard Pavy to death after tying him to the mast, starving him, trying to force him to eat and drink his own piss and shit and successfully making him drink the blood from his flogging stripes. X-rated audioguides anyone?

The tune I know for that is the beautiful one Lloyd found in Norfolk (for a much shorter version of the song with only just enough detail to make the point). But it sounds to me much too recent to have been current in 1799. Anybody have one from then?