The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157395   Message #3714576
Posted By: Lighter
05-Jun-15 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Merman / blow ye winds
Subject: RE: Origins: Merman / blow ye winds
An original broadside of the 19th century is here:

http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/25000/23998.gif

The song was in print by the 1880s.