to be scrambled for by the land-sharks. Nor yet does there seem much sense in it, but it serves to man and move the brakes merrily. The following tune is sometimes used for this chanty :? PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE. [score] // Even though she got the lyrics from a book, did she hear this sung? Otherwise, how does she know the tune? Smith next gives "THE LION MAN-O'-WAR," without saying it is a chanty, only that it was "A very popular song at Portsmouth..." She follows it with HOME DEARIE HOME, the shore composition. Her version of the words, unless they were popular in periodicals/broadsides of the time, may have come from James Runciman's SKIPPERS AND SHELLBACKS (London: Chatto and Windus, 1885). The idiosyncratic words match exactly (e.g. "Amble" rather than "Falmouth")...but then where does her tune come from? ANd she says that it is "Amongst the favourite chanties of North-country sailors..." but I don't know what the proof of that is. Chanty for what? Next she gives a stanza, with tune, of GOLDEN VANITY, which she calls 'the capstan song of "Lowlands"'. Then comes a version (text only) of OUTWARD AND HOMEWARD BOUND that I've not seen exactly before: // There is also a " Homeward Bound " song very well known to them :? "At Catherine's Dock I bade adieu To Poll and Bet, and lovely Sue; The anchor's weighed, the sails unfurled, We're bound to plough the watery world; Don't you see we're outward bound. But