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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
 Packet 1 : Scottish and English Songs
 Folder 15 : Scottish and English Songs - C
 

Page 00300 : Dead Horse [song text] Andrew Salters (contributor), Grenock, Scotland, 1928

Item Summary

Formatsong text
TitleDead Horse
Date1928
ContributorAndrew Salters
Index NameSalters, Andrew
PlaceGrenock, Scotland
Reference Code AFC 1972/001, MS p. 00300

Scope and Content Notes

Genre song - shanty
First lineWhen father died and he left his will

7 lines description; 3 stanzas

Contextual Notes

First shipped in 1872. Heard song at age of twenty-one, in the southern seas in the Chrisam.

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