Spanish Ladies

DESCRIPTION: Sailor bids farewell to the Spanish (Australian, South American) ladies as his ship weighs anchor and departs for England (Massachusetts).
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1769 (Journal of the Nellie)
KEYWORDS: parting sailor Spain England
FOUND IN: Britain(England(South,West)) US(NE) Canada(Mar) Ireland
REFERENCES (23 citations):
Gardham-EarliestVersions, "SPANISH LADIES, THE"
Dixon-AncientPoemsBalladsSongsOfThePeasantryOfEngland, Song #38, pp. 235-236, "The Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 454-455, "The Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Roud/Bishop-NewPenguinBookOfEnglishFolkSongs #19, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hugill-ShantiesFromTheSevenSeas, pp. 385-386, "Spanish Ladies" (2 texts, 2 tunes) [AbEd, pp. 293-294]
Hugill-SongsOfTheSea, p. 27, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Huntington-TheGam-MoreSongsWhalemenSang, pp. 144-145, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune, some of it conjectured due to the illegibility of the original journal)
Kinsey-SongsOfTheSea, pp. 143-145, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Sharp-OneHundredEnglishFolksongs 89, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-TheCrystalSpring 82, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Shay-AmericanSeaSongsAndChanteys, pp. 136-137, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Creighton/Senior-TraditionalSongsOfNovaScotia, pp. 233-234, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Karpeles-FolkSongsFromNewfoundland 41, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Mackenzie-BalladsAndSeaSongsFromNovaScotia 97, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast, p. 25, "The Spanish Ladies" (1 text)
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 125-126, "Oh we'll rant and we'll roar like true British seamen" (1 text)
Palmer-OxfordBookOfSeaSongs 54, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Stone-SeaSongsAndBallads XCI, pp. 183-184, "Farewell and Adieu" (1 text)
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 736-737, "Farewell to You, Ye Fine Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tobitt-TheDittyBag, p. 65, "Spanish Ladies" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT, SPANLAD* SPANLAD3*
ADDITIONAL: Captain John Robinson, "Songs of the Chantey Man," a series published July-August 1917 in the periodical _The Bellman_ (Minneapolis, MN, 1906-1919). "Farewell and Adieu" is in Part 4, 8/4/1917.
Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 80, "(We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors')" (1 excerpt)
Roud #687
RECORDINGS:
Cadgwith fishermen, "Farewell and Adieu" (on LastDays)
Johnny Doughty, "Up the Channel" (on Voice12)

BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth c.17(305), "The Spanish Ladies", J. Pitts (London), 1819-1844; also Harding B 11(1483), Harding B 11(3611), Firth b.34(40), Firth c.13(39), Firth c.13(41), "[The] Spanish Ladies"
LOCSinging, as104650, "Spanish Ladies", J. Catnach (London), 19C
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "Brisbane Ladies" (plot, tune, lyrics)
cf. "The Countersigns" (tune)
SAME TUNE:
The Countersigns (File: Col135)
Brisbane Ladies (File: FaE162)
We'll Rant and We'll Roar (File: FJ042)
The Saguenay Song (File: Hopk038)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Farewell and Adieu To You
NOTES [62 words]: This well-known melody inspired a number of local parodies, including "We'll Rant and We'll Roar" (which itself was parodied on occasion) and "Brisbane Ladies." As most of these are deliberate rewrites, however, they are not included here.
"Talcahuano Girls," formerly filed here, is in fact A. L. Lloyd's rewrite of "We'll Rant and We'll Roar," and is now filed there. - RBW
Last updated in version 6.8
File: ShH89

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