Ship I Love, The

DESCRIPTION: "A gallant ship was laboring, laboring in the sea." The captain says, "The ship is doomed and sinking." Land's in sight. The captain orders, "Launch the boats and pull away,.. I'll stick to this ship,,, I'll go down in the angry deep With the ship I love"
AUTHOR: Felix McGlennon (source: Folk Song and Music Hall site)
EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (source: Folk Songs and Music Hall site)
KEYWORDS: ship wreck death disaster | captain
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, V. J. Thogmartin, "The Ship I Love," Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1953), pp. 27-28, "(The Ship I Love)" (1 text)
Roud #17057
NOTES [56 words]: Roud seems to lump more than one item under this number, e.g. he includes the Bodleian broadside "Lines on the Fearfil Collisiom at Sea," about the 1873 wreck of the Northfleet. Starts with the same three words, "A gallant ship," and refers to a captain who enforces discipline as the ship sinks, but I see nothing else in common. - RBW
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