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Thread #149079   Message #3467834
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
17-Jan-13 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Swing Your Tail (chanty, worksong)
Subject: RE: Origins: Swing Your Tail (chanty, worksong)
Gibb, you can read Murray & Marston online:

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062373840;view=1up;seq=266;q1=tail;start=1;size=10;page=search;num=176

There's an interesting chapter called "Chanties," which may be the source of Marston's later booklet. Except for "Swing Your Tail," it all looks pretty familiar - but possibly because *later* writers plagiarized from Marston.