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Thread #42245   Message #4208134
Posted By: Lighter
10-Sep-24 - 09:18 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Cruising round Yarmouth
Subject: RE: Origins: Cruising round Yarmouth
At this point it might be worthwhile to mention another song, which over the years has come to resemble "Cruising 'Round Yarmouth" and its immediate predecessor - or sibling - "Ratcliffe Highway" or "Polly of Portsmouth."

That other song is the one now often called "The Roving Kind," though before 1951 it was usually "The Fireship" or "A Dark and Rolling Eye."

I'll take up this branch of the family at /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1239#2698904