The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119776 Message #3019482
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
30-Oct-10 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
Subject: RE: 'Rare' Caribbean shanties of Hugill, etc
the Indigo Girls...
Good one! heh heh
Though all the known versions have certain similarities, I think they're different enough to be independent, though clearly based on certain "regulation" verses.
In many other situations I would agree, but the correspondence between Whall and Lubbock bugs me. I can certainly accept that they are independent (especially with no evidence to the contrary), but for my personal feeling that is just too many "regulation" verses, and a weird coincidence that they use *only* those verses. The differences between Whall and *Hugill* are more what I would expect to find. It may just mean that I have to accept that what I presumed would be much more varied really was not.