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Shanties From The Seven Seas,
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Shanties From The Seven Seas
RATCLIFFE HIGHV^AY
and that it is possible that the Packet Seamen picked up the tune from the German emigrants who were flocking to the New World at this time. But a more feasible theory is that the shanty was nothing more than an old Negro song Knock a Man Down. This song, a not so musical version of the later Blow the Man Down, was taken and used by the hoosiers of Mobile Bay, and at a later date carried by white seamen to the Packet Ships, the crews of which altered the work 'knock' to 'blow', made the tune more musical and invented many new themes to fit the tune. Briggs in his book Around Cape Horn to Honolulu in the Barque 'Amy Turner' gives an early, probably hoosier version, with the refrain as 'Way, hay, knock a man down!', and also two other versions with the usual 'Blow the man down' refrains. Sharp gives a good example of an early Knock a Man Down shanty, probably the hoosier version.
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Seamen and the sailors of latter-day windjammers, well, they came from everywhere. Those of our first version were lifted more or less as they were from the old forebitter Ratcliffe Highway—itself used z& a capstan shanty and pumping song, so my informant old Paddy Dclaney, who had sailed in Packet Ships, told me.
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