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Posted By: Gibb Sahib
10-Jan-11 - 02:31 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
1851 Fuller, Thomas, Jr. _Journal of a Voyage to Liberia_. Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy.

The narrator is a passenger on a packet barque from Baltimore to Liberia, carrying emigrant free Blacks. It's Sept. 1851. He notes STORMY at one point, though not with any particular work mention:

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All being on board, Tom Williams, the leader of the band, struck up his favorite air, "old stormy long." And in a short time we were under way for Cape Palmas.
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