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Thread #161500 Message #3838436
Posted By: Snuffy
12-Feb-17 - 08:24 AM
Thread Name: Sea songs and shanties from ca.1675-1720
Subject: RE: Sea songs and shanties from ca.1675-1720
How about The Golden Vanity/Sweet Trinity?
This is Child Ballad No. 286 and, according to Wikipedia, the first surviving version apparently dates from ca. 1635.