"all stove up"-- "I feel so break-up"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Jun 4 15:42:19 UTC 2004


On Jun 4, 2004, at 7:29 AM, A. Murie wrote:

> ...The Weavers' Songbook gives the info: "Words & music adapted by Lee
> Hays from a collection by Carl Sandburg."

American Song Bag (1927).  apparently there's a version in alan lomax's
Folk Songs of North-America (1960).

the song appears under various titles:
   The Wreck of the John B
   The Wreck of the Sloop John B
   Sloop John B
   The John B's Sails



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