Sailing, Sailing

DESCRIPTION: Known mostly for the lines in the middle of the chorus: "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main, For many a stormy wind shall blow ere Jack comes home again." About the "bold and free" life of the sailor, and his true heart, and his return home
AUTHOR: Godfrey Marks
EARLIEST DATE: 1880 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: sailor sea ship nonballad home
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REFERENCES (11 citations):
Heart-Songs, pp. 390-391, "Sailing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd, #154, "Sailing" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 89, "Sailing Sailing" (1 text)
Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic, p. 483, "Sailing"
Harbin-Parodology, #319, p. 78, "Sailing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 288, 346, "Sailing, Sailing" (notes only)
Rodeheaver-SociabilitySongs, p. 40, "Sailing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsNThings, p. 36, "Sailing" (1 text, 1 tune)
Zander/Klusmann-CampSongsPopularEdition, p. 38, "Sailing" (1 text)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, pp. 122-123, "Campfire Medley" (1 text, a combination of "Our Boys Will Shine Tonight," "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," "Sailing, Sailing," and "Goodnight Ladies")
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SAME TUNE:
Swimming, Swimming (file: ACSF263S)
Sailing the Union Way (Greenway-AmericanFolksongsOfProtest, p. 235)
File: FSWB089

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