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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 03223 : Blow the Man Down [song text] Laura Alexandrine Smith, The Music of the Waters (1888)

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

Blow the Man Down

Source Document

Laura Alexandrine Smith The Music of the Waters ( 1888 ) Bibliography

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS p. 03223

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - shanty

First line

I'm a true English sailor just come from Hong Kong

1 stanza

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