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Thread #79100   Message #3191541
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-Jul-11 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Rio Grande (sailors)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rio Grande (sailors)
'bound for" 'sounds' better to me. But I'll let the grammar specialists argue about which is preferable.

The 1869 writer 'sounds' knowledgeable, talking of voyages and including parts of several chanties, but he seems not to have been a working member of a ship's crew. (the 1869 Chambers' is online).