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Thread #58274 Message #921780
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
30-Mar-03 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Distressed Men of War (from Bodleian)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Unknown Sea Song in Patrick O'Brian
Note that the song is in the Firth collection in the Bodleian, and Firth included the song in 'Naval Songs and Ballads', p. 228, 1908. [No tune direction or author]. That's probably where O'Brian found it.