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Thread #102326 Message #3467533
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
17-Jan-13 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
A review of Marston's _Shanties_, in Music & Letters (april 1922), is simple and blunt. The review asks what the point is to print a dozen of the best known shanties when there were already existing a half-dozen collections full of dozens of shanties.
Ah yes, but what little gems does it hold, like the "Swing yo' tail" (current thread) fragment?