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Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Author: George Scroggie
Label: Riverside
Year: 1956
On Thar She Blow! (see also: Bonnie Ship The Diamond). Bert Lloyd learned it in Durban, South Africa at the end of his whale fishing journey in 1938. It's a whaling song set along the coasts of Greenland (1850). Scotish lyricist Scroggie was from Aberdeenshire.
Covers:
Bob Dylan [borrowed the tune for Farewell Angelina]
Joan Baez [idem]
A.L. Lloyd [on Leviathan!]
Judy Collins [in a documentary]
Tune similar with The Wagoner's Lad (see there) and Rye Whisky.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)