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Thread #49421   Message #3175282
Posted By: GUEST,Cornish Maid
23-Jun-11 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Yeller Gals - Doodle or Do Not?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Yeller Gals - Doodle or Do Not?
Sea shanty - sung by sailors. needs to heard sung in Cornwall or Devon by a local shanty man.
'Hurrah, me Yeller girl's due to let me go' (local inflection causes this expression to be pronounced with a south-western slur which slides into 'doodle let me go'