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Posted By: Thompson
12-Feb-18 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: What sea shanties did Blackbeard know?
Subject: RE: What sea shanties did Blackbeard know?

Another possible source - "Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600-900" (bearing in mind that I've never met a sailor who wasn't fond of a bawdy ballad).