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<p>Created page with &quot;No. 90. The Ship in Distress For other versions with tunes, see the &#039;&#039;Journal of the Folk-Song Society&#039;&#039; (volume iv, pp. 320–323). Ashton, in his &#039;&#039;Real Sailor Songs&#039;&#039; (No....&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>No. 90. The Ship in Distress<br /> <br /> For other versions with tunes, see the &#039;&#039;Journal of the Folk-Song Society&#039;&#039; (volume iv, pp. 320–323). Ashton, in his &#039;&#039;Real Sailor Songs&#039;&#039; (No. 44), prints a broadside version of the words. A similar song is sung by French sailors, “Le petit Navire” (Miss Laura A. Smith’s &#039;&#039;Music of the Waters&#039;&#039;, p. 149), of which Thackeray’s “Little Billee” was a burlesque.<br /> <br /> The tune is in the Dorian mode.</div>

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