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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 38 : Songs and Chanties - C

Page 03564- 03565 : The Seamen's Alphabet [song text] J. A. Ronaldson (contributor), 16 Mason St, Medford, Mass., 1929

Item Summary

Format

song text

Title

The Seamen's Alphabet

Date

1929

Contributor	J. A. Ronaldson
Index Name	Ronaldson, J. A.

Place

16 Mason St, Medford, Mass.

Reference Code

AFC 1972/001, MS pp. 03564- 03565

Scope and Content Notes

Genre

song - forebitter

First line

A's for the anchor which we oftimes let go

7 stanzas

Contextual Notes

'Heard 1895 on French bark "Druid"...'

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