The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51635   Message #788604
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
21-Sep-02 - 03:03 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Rolling Home to Dear Old England
Subject: RE: DTStudy: ROLLING HOME to Dear Old England
Roy Palmer (The Oxford Book of Sea Songs, re-issued as Boxing the Compass, 2001) states that Charles MacKay (1814-1889) wrote his poem Rolling Home "on 26 May 1858 while homeward bound from America as a passenger on the Europa. Its verses were indeed augmented by sailors."