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Thread #161070   Message #4055674
Posted By: Lighter
28-May-20 - 02:14 PM
Thread Name: Stan Hugill's Bawdy Sea Shanty Manuscript
Subject: RE: Stan Hugill's Bawdy Sea Shanty Manuscript
Thanks for this reminder, and e. The material has been online for a few years

But except for a few verses here and there, somebody seems to have removed the actual *texts.*

What remains, however, including the annotations, is significant.

Hugill frequently said that chanteymen (now my favorite spelling) almost never utilized double entendre - the favorite mode of folkie re-dirtifiers. His material bears that out. When not just sniggeringly blah, the outspoken verses in the manuscript might be tough to emulate today.