The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10928   Message #79033
Posted By: Barry Finn
16-May-99 - 10:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When Ham and Shem and Japhet (Harry Kemp)
Subject: RE: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty?
Hugill uses that passage at the end of his preface in his Shanties Of The Seven Seas. He credits it from "Chanteys & Ballads" by Harry Kemp around the 1920's. Harry was a poet, nicknamed the 'Poet of the Dunes' around Provincetown, Mass. I hope this helps a little. Barry