Worth mentioning, perhaps, re the tune, that Harry Cox's version that Fred reproduces above was sung to the same tune as the version of The Gallant Frigate Amphitryte in the first {Vaughan Williams & Lloyd} Penguin Book. I pointed this out to Harry when he asked me once if I knew a version of the song he called The Ship Called 'Onward', but he looked vaguely puzzled. Bob Thomson, who had intro'd me to Harry, pointed out that it was also the tune of Harry's The Painful Plough. He said afterwards that he wasn't sure that Harry always recognised similarities in tunes but was more concerned with words -- a matter I am still unsure about. (See my "An Interview With Harry Cox" in Folk Review for February 1973).

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