Det Hande Sig I Goteborg (It Happened in Gothenburg)

DESCRIPTION: Swedish/German shanty. A sailor is signed by a man named Peter. The ship is a good one, but conditions are bad. Peter sleeps all the time except when threatening the crew. Ch: Hey ho fallerallera (2x) Just for all soka hyra (just to find myself a ship)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1935
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage shanty sailor work
FOUND IN: Sweden Germany
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 550-551, "Det Hande Sig I Goteborg" (2 texts, Swedish & English, 1 tune)
Hugill-SongsOfTheSea, p. 147, "Det Hande SIg I Gotebort" (2 texts, Swedish & English, 1 tune)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Ja das geschah in Gotenborg
NOTES [26 words]: Found both in Sternvall's Sang under Segel (1935) and Baltzer's Knurrhahn (1935). Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas said this was popular around 1870. - SL
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File: Hugi550

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