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Salt Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S405292)

1 of approx 16 results
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Between the main-mast and the pumps

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Derby: Manchester Quarterly 34 (1915) pp.288-289

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X7768

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Salt Horse Chanty
Roud Folksong Index (S337465)

2 of approx 16 results
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Old horse, old horse, how came you here

Roud No

18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Williams: The Independent (8 Jul 1909) p.83

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USA (?)

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Williams, James H.

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X7799

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Salt Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S189581)

3 of approx 16 results
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Salt horse, salt horse, both near and far

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Davis & Tozer, Sailors' Songs or Chanties (3rd edn.) pp.86-87

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Britain

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Printed : Book

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X5946

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S156545)

4 of approx 16 results
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Old horse, old horse, what brought you here

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Beck, Folklore of Maine (1957) pp.194-195

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USA : Maine

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Beck, Horace P.

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Printed : Book

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X6861

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S156543)

5 of approx 16 results
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Old horse old horse what brought you here

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Huntington, Songs the Whalemen Sang (1964) pp.279-281

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USA

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1842

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Journal/Log of The Carthage (1842)

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X6563

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S217286)

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Old horse, old horse, what brought you here

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Eckstorm & Smyth, Minstrelsy of Maine pp.223-226

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USA : Maine

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Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy / Mary Winslow Smyth

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X6714

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S156544)

7 of approx 16 results
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Old horse, old horse, what brought you here?

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Linscott, Folk Songs of Old New England (1932) pp.142-144

Performer

Linscott, James M.

Place

USA : Mass. : Marblehead

Collector

Linscott, Eloise Hubbard

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Printed : Book

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X6488

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Old Horse Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S217287)

8 of approx 16 results
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Old horse, old horse, how come you here

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Brown, North Carolina Folklore 3 (1952) p.258

Performer

Scott, Duval

Place

USA : N. Carolina : Alliance

Collector

Boyd, Julian P.

Date collected

1927?

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Printed : Book

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Roud Bib ref

X6830

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The Salt Horse Song
Roud Folksong Index (S160317)

9 of approx 16 results
First Line

Oh horse, of horse, what brought you here

Roud No

18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Flanders & Olney, Ballads Migrant in New England (1953) p.226

Performer

Clark, Mrs. Henry M.

Place

USA : Connecticut : Suffield

Collector

Flanders, Helen Hartness

Date collected

1950 (Mar)

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Printed : Book

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X6694

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S445010)

10 of approx 16 results
First Line

Old horse, old horse, what brought you here

Roud No

18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Frank, Jolly Sailors Bold (2010) pp.101-103

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Gilman, B.J.

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USA

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Date collected

1844-1847

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[Music added from printed source]

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Ship's log / journal, 'Mary' (New Bedford, 1844-1847)

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X7580

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Old Horse
Roud Folksong Index (S375617)

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18904 [Search for 18904 in the current indexes]

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Beck, Down East Ballads & Songs (PhD thesis: Univ Pennsylvania, 1952) p.334

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USA

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Beck, Horace Palmer

Date collected

1950c (?)

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Thesis

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[Details taken from Charles W, Bean, An Index to Folksongs Contained in Theses & Dissertations in the Library of Congress, Washington DC (1981)]

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X8393

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