Posted by Peter on August 07, 1997 at 05:32:08:
In Reply to: 'The Maid of Amsterdam' (WAS 'Re: Shanties in S&A') posted by Forrest Brownell on August 06, 1997 at 18:48:43:
I know A-roving well,and it is certainly a little boisterous. I cant imagine the Swallows and the Amazons singing this song, Mother, Arthur Ransome and certainly the GA would never approve. I postulate that there exists another song titled Amsterdam, which we have not discovered yet.
Roger Dick, the wonderfully appropriately-named New Zealand representative for TARS has collected many of the shanties, can any TAR in New Zealand get in touch with him and answer some of these questions? I know he has published Salt Beef in News from Houseboat Bay ]the NZ TARSmagazine\