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Thread #160815 Message #4135402
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
05-Feb-22 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: Singing 'Shenandoah' for Brits
Subject: RE: Singing 'Shenandoah' for Brits
The song first appeared in writing as "Shenadore" in The New Dominion Monthly in April, 1876. The author, Captain Robert Chamblet Adams, indicated that he had first heard the song around 1850.
W.B. Whall reprinted it in his 1910 book Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties Collected by W.B. Whall, Master Mariner. Most musicologists agree that the chief mentioned in "Shenandoah" is the Oneida Iroquois chief John Skenandoa.