Titanic (VI), The ("Cold and Icy Sea") (Titanic #6)

DESCRIPTION: The Titanic sets out from Liverpool and sinks in the cold waters off Newfoundland. The ballad notes how both rich and poor, upper and lower classes, were lost in the disaster
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951
KEYWORDS: ship wreck disaster death
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
April 14/15, 1912 - Shortly before midnight, ship's time, the Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to sink. Only 711 survivors are found of 2224 people believed to have been aboard.
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
McNeil-SouthernFolkBalladsVol2, p. 103, "The Titanic" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, TITANIC1*
Roud #3525
RECORDINGS:
Almeda Riddle, "The Titanic" (on LomaxCD1707)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. all the other Titanic songs (plot)
NOTES [81 words]: Despite this song (and other folklore), the band on the Titanic did NOT play "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sank. Instead, they played light music to prevent panic.
Roud lumps this with The Titanic (V), but I don't see any common elements except the boat.
For an extensive history of the Titanic, with detailed examination of the truth (or lack thereof) of quotes in the Titanic songs, see the notes to "The Titanic (XV)" ("On the tenth day of April 1912") (Titanic #15) - RBW
File: MN2103

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