Old Rafting Chant

DESCRIPTION: "Thus drifting to sea on a hick of white pine, For the grub and the wages we've paid... true to our course, though the weather be thick, We set our broad sail as before And stand by the tiller that governs the hick Nor care we how we look from the shore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1831 (Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania)
KEYWORDS: work ship
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, p. 234, "Old Rafting Chant" (1 text)
Roud #15029
File: SHoe234

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