Sail Away

DESCRIPTION: "Then sail away, saii o'er the ocean so blue. With the wind in our maintop we'll plow the way trough! The time is not far off when 'How do you do?' Will be sid by your sweetheart who has long watched for you."
AUTHOR: Amos Hanson? (source: Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors)
EARLIEST DATE: 1932 (Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors)
KEYWORDS: sailor return
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors, p. 34, "Sail Away" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
NOTES [68 words]: This fragment is so short that it could go with almost any sailing song, but Lane/Gosbee-SongsOfShipsAndSailors thinks it an independent song. If so, I strongly suspect the preserved fragment is the chorus.
Amos Hanson is credited with at least three songs in the Index, "The Schooner Fred Dunbar" [Laws D14], "A Trip to the Grand Banks," and the fragment "Sail Away." None is very well known or preserved. - RBW
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