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Thread #92431 Message #1772721
Posted By: Charley Noble
30-Jun-06 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sailor Town (Cicely Fox Smith)
Subject: RE: sailortown
So true! And as C. Fox Smith phrased it back in the 1920's in her poem "Mariquita":
...there's nothing left but change, And the ships I knew all going, and the ports I knew grown strange...
Another book on Sailortown of interest is the one put together by Stan Hugill, titled SAILORTOWN. It's still out of print but generally available from the used book websites. He provides an overview and an earthy description of the ones he was more intimately familiar with.
John Masefield also composed a short poem about Sailortown entitled "Hell's Pavement" which I've set to music, adding a chorus. It's available for sampling on my personal website: Click here and search for lyrics!