Posted by Alan Hakim on September 12, 2011 at 14:40:36 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Swallows and Shanties posted by MikeB on September 12, 2011 at 10:21:38:
We sang shanties regularly at my school in the mid-1940s, and I remember mentally cross-referencing them with those in the S&A series.
I doubt the music teacher got the idea from our English master (who encouraged us to read AR if we hadn't already). We sang out of an Oxford University Press songbook.