Stormalong

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Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bulltop_Stormalong

Several shanty's include his name, including this one from Assassin's Creed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K42iDW1Swg

which appears in 'The shanty book', Runciman, 1921:
https://archive.org/details/TheShantyBook/page/n43

The version I am singing appeared in 'Roll and go, songs of American sailormen', Joanna Carver Colcord, 1924:
https://archive.org/details/rollgosongsofame0000colc/page/38

A different version again appears in Cecil Sharp's 'English folk-chanteys' 1914:
https://archive.org/details/englishfolkchant00shar/page/22

The version that the Roaring Forties (now 40 Degrees South) do is different again:
https://fortydegreessouth.bandcamp.com/track/stormalong

#seashanty #stormalong

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