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If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: John Goss & the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet
Author: traditional
Label: His Masters Voice
Year: 1928
Capstan shanty about the Rio Grande de la Plata in South America, rather than about the border river between Texas and Mexico. Percy Grainger collected a version in 1908 from John Persing in Dartmouth.
Covers:
Norman Allin [as Bound For The Rio Grande for Columbia]
Robert Shaw Chorale [as Bound For The Rio Grande]
Michael Stipe & Courtney Love [on Hal Willner's Son Of Rogues Gallery]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)