The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145654   Message #3373028
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
06-Jul-12 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: A.L.Lloyd & Sea Chanties
Subject: RE: A.L.Lloyd & Sea Chanties
Taking the shanties in turn...

A Hundred Years Ago.

Lead by Lloyd.
Compares well with Terry's (1926) presentation.
The line "I promised her a golden ring/ she promised me that little thing" might be one of Lloyd's lines that Hugill didn't care for.

Billy Riley
Lead by Lloyd.
Seems based in C Fox Smith, lyrics-wise, but Lloyd's melody doesn't appear in print. (MacColl later did a rendition after Terry's collection of John Short.)
Caribbean-oriented.

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