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Thread #2407 Message #3221330
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
10-Sep-11 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Leave Her Johnny Leave Her
Subject: RE: Origins: Leave Her Johnny Leave Her
1906 Hutchison, Percy Adams. "Sailors' Chanties." _The Journal of American Folklore_ 19(72) (Jan.-March 1906): 16-28.
Uses the version from Davis & Tozer.
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1906 Lubbock, Basil. Jack Derringer: A Tale of Deep Water. London: John Murray.
Most of the chanties in this work can be easily traced to Davis & Tozer.
Jim hummed the famous chanty:
"Leave her, Johnny, leave her,
It's time for us to leave her."