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An open historical maritime songbook on a chart table with notation sheets, brass tools, a decorated flintlock pistol, lantern light, and a ship visible beyond a rain-streaked porthole with reflected notation in the glass.
Indexed now Songs of the Sea

14 indexed tunes online from Stan Hugill (1977). Newest additions: Rude Boreas, Rolling Down to Old Maui, Jean François de Nantes, Wat Wi Doht.

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An old midnight-blue leather book titled Songs of the Sea by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.
Publication date
1977
Edition
First American edition
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Indexed tunes
14 indexed tunes

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Songs of the Sea

Stan Hugill's landmark anthology of working shanties and maritime songs anchors the archive's initial public browse flow.

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An old burgundy cloth book titled Songs of the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill with gilded embossed lettering.
Publication date
1961
Edition
First edition
Author
Stan Hugill
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Indexed tunes
No tune records yet

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Songs of the Seven Seas

Stan Hugill's great compendium of shanties and sea songs is prepared here as the next major source-book browse path.

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