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Series I : Original Collection Materials, 1928 - 1972
Box 1 : Songs, Ballads, Mummers Plays and Shanties
Packet 4 : Songs and Shanties
Folder 36 : Songs and Chanties - A

Page 03210 : Blow Boys Blow [song text] Captain Edward B. Trumbull (contributor), Salem, Mass., 1927

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Blow Boys Blow

Date

1927

Contributor	Captain Edward B. Trumbull
Index Name	Trumbull, Captain Edward B.

Place

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 03210

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - shanty

First line

Yankee ship comes down the river

Refrain

Blow, boys blow!

7 stanzas

Contextual Notes

'First shipped 1868.'

Related Items

Music Notation

Blow Boys Blow [music notation] Trumbull (contributor)

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