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Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal by Cyril Tawney PDF

By Cyril Tawney

ISBN-10: 113895411X

ISBN-13: 9781138954113

Originally released in 1987. during this booklet we discover songs reflecting each point of lifestyles within the twentieth-century Royal military, either top and decrease deck: struggle, ship’s regimen, aviation, submarines, the antics of dockyard team of workers, let alone the matelot’s shore-going adventures, either amorous and bibulous.


The compiler was once recognized as a folk-singer, notwithstanding he begun his profession within the Royal military. in keeping with his own selection of army songs, this ebook proves that the sailor’s muse didn't wilderness him with the passing of the crusing send. It additionally dispels the idea that the fashionable Jack Tar, whilst he produces any songs in any respect, confines himself to the pornographic. With the songs, Cyril Tawney interweaves a statement at the Royal military environment, supplying a backdrop to the sailor’s personal phrases. This e-book is of putting up with entice all who've served in addition to to scholars of twentieth-century oral tradition.

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