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'''Roud 376'''

*[[Faithful Sailor Boy, The]]
*[[Sailor Boy, The]]

Written by G W Persley towards the end of the 19th century, this song turns up regularly in country singers' repertoires throughout Britain, even into the 1980s. [[Gavin Greig]] described it as being “Very popular in Aberdeenshire in the early years of this century”, and it has been collected in Ireland, North Carolina, Australia and Tristan da Cunha. 


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