Hi, all.

The 1969 book contains two items (and perhaps an extra stanza or two) that didn't appear in 1961.

One is an alleged pumping shanty called "Packet Ship." Though it's in English, Hugill notes it was sent to him by a Dane who informed him it was sung on Danish ships. The story it tells in fragmentary fashion - like that of "Boney" - is that of the Mutiny on HMS Bounty. Hugill suggests that this is one of the earliest chanteys, adapted from Britain by teh Danes, but there's no compelling evidence for this.

Another new text (and tune) is a somewhat raunchier and less tuneful version of the "Ratcliff Highway" that Hugill had printed in 1961.