Stan Hugill was the last working shantyman of the sailing ships, and this is his great collection: hundreds of work songs with their tunes, their words and the jobs they were sung to. The standard book on the subject since 1961.
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Shipboard Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail
Stan Hugill
Paperback · Globe Pequot · 2022
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Stan Hugill was the last working shantyman of the sailing ships, and this is his great collection: hundreds of work songs with their tunes, their words and the jobs they were sung to. The standard book on the subject since 1961.
About Stan Hugill
selected and edited by R. Vaughn Williams and A. L. Lloyd ; revised by Malcom Douglas ; forewrod by Martin Carthy
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