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Thread #132032 Message #2984026
Posted By: Lighter
10-Sep-10 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lloyd's Coast of Peru
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Lloyd's Coast of Peru
Thanks Joe, Dick, and Anglo. I may be able to dig up the 1933 text. Will report if I find it.
If Huntington had been singing Colcord's "Coast of Peru" for a long time, he might have altered it unconsciously. Of course, if he'd heard one of his old sailor relatives sing "Maui" (or "Mohee" as he spells it), he might have learned the tune from him. It doesn't matter much, really, because the variation is minimal.
The fragment from Browne is quoted by Melville in _Moby Dick_.