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Thread #135128   Message #3081002
Posted By: Steve Gardham
23-Jan-11 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: 'Lost' Chanties & Forebitters
Subject: RE: 'Lost' Chanties & Forebitters
Gibb,
Some of those on your list are quite obvious.

Of those mentioned earlier, I have sheet music for 'Nancy Bell'
'Rosa Lee' has several possibilities. With a common name like this choosing an intended one is impossible. Work's 'Rosalie the Prairie Flower' is even a contender. 'Heart Songs' has p446 'Rosalie' and p450 'Rosa Lee'

Baltimore Bell could be a localisation of 'Barbary Bell'

Surely 'Johnny's Gone' 'oh Fare ye well, my own Mary Anne', 'When first we (I) went a waggoning' are quite obvious. The last one would make a good heaving chanty.