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Thread #22865   Message #4108004
Posted By: The Sandman
29-May-21 - 01:41 AM
Thread Name: Penguin: Rounding The Horn
Subject: RE: Penguin: Rounding The Horn
This is the version i prefer , there is another version with two extra verses.
for me the point of the song is the difficulty of sailing round the horn, the two extra verses that appear in print from 1905 are in my opinion mediocre at best and confuse the message of the song
So earlier in the song we have a warning about Plymouth girls, then we later have the singer singing their praises all of which is a side show and a red herring compared to the powerful descriptions about beating off Magellan Straits, and the poetic description of the glorious days. The two extra verses look to me to be the work of some other author.