Floating Home, A

DESCRIPTION: "Huzza huzza for a floating home, A good ship tight and free, There is naught like being waterborne On this the home for me." "There's music in the freshening gale." "Land, land, in sight my native land... Home of the brave and free."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1843 (Journal of the Uncus)
KEYWORDS: ship sailor return home
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Huntington-TheGam-MoreSongsWhalemenSang, pp. 146-147, "A Floating Home" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: HGam146

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