Well, now that everyone's reminded me to check through my piles of sea music CD's I've "discovered" (and I'm not trying to pull "the wool" over anyone's eyes) my copy of Salt of the Earth, purchased when Joyce and Danny McLeod flew through Maine last year, and, sure enough, #3 is their version of "A Wool Fleet Chorus." Amazingingly enough, they've made some of the same modest words changes that I have and decided on the same kind of chorus/refrain. I think their version runs too slow but I also wouldn't want to have my version run as fast as some folks sing "The Diamond." I've actually turned this song over to Dick Dufresne of Roll & Go for further abuse, and we'll see what he comes up with.

When is someone going to republish all of C. Fox Smith's nautical poems? She had a great ear for nautical life at the end of the great era of commercial sail.