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Thread #169449   Message #4170003
Posted By: GeoffLawes
15-Apr-23 - 07:05 PM
Thread Name: Any April Songs?
Subject: RE: Any April Songs?
16 April 1797. The Spithead Mutiny began at Spithead near near Portsmouth,England.

THE SEVENTEEN BRIGHT STARS

Come all you bold Britons, to the sea do belong,
Of the seventeen bright stars I will sing you a song.
On the fifteenth of April at Spithead we lay;
Lord Britport he hove out a signal to weigh,
But one and all we refused to obey.


Mainly Norfolk: The Seventeen Bright Stars   
https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/theseventeenbrightstars.html
Short recorded extract by AL Lloyd, Alistair Anderson and Bobby Campbell from Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-seventeen-bright-stars-feat-alistair-anderson/1617190135?i=1617190142