Address to Young Sailors

DESCRIPTION: A warning to sailors: "quit rambling and the seas forsake." Singer has sworn to quit but "here I am now caught again ... a-catching whales." The owners "take it all and leave me none." "I hope you will look before you leap."
AUTHOR: Richard C. Reynolds (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: accusation warning travel commerce money sea ship whale nonballad boss sailor whaler
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 151, "Address to Young Sailors" (1 text)
Roud #31388
NOTES [18 words]: For a list of the (highly obscure) works of Richard C. Reynolds in the Index, see the notes to "Cape Horn." - RBW
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File: FJSB151

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