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Thread #58526   Message #926847
Posted By: Charley Noble
05-Apr-03 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: Watered Down Shanties
Subject: RE: Waterd Down Shanties
The bawdy versions of many of these songs still circulates orally; some were taped at a Mystic Sea Music Festival a few years back. There are also several unexpurgated copies of Hugill's songs that people mention from time to time, the late editor G. Legman (editor of Vance Randolph's "Unprintable" songs and folklore from the Ozarks) often refered to the copy he had from Stan. Stan's widow most certainly has the original manuscript.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble