“Rounding the Horn”
Description
Sailor describes hard trip around Cape Horn (in the frigate "Amphitrite"), and the pleasures (mostly female) of shore-leave in Chile. The singer says that Spanish girls are superior to (English) women, who have no enthusiasm and steal your clothes
Notes
The brig _Amphitrite_ was built in 1820 and engaged in South American trade. A frigate of the same name was lost in 1833 while carrying female convicts to Australia (see "The Loss of the Amphitrite"). - PJS
Roud, in one of his stranger acts of lumping, combines this with "The Loss of the Amphitrite" [Laws K4]. They only common element I can see is the ship name. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "The Loss of the Amphitrite" [Laws K4] (subject)
- cf "The Painful Plough" (tune)
- cf. "Come All You Worthy Christian Men" (tune)
- cf. "Van Dieman's Land (I)" [Laws L18] (tune)
Recordings
- Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, "Round Cape Horn" (on ENMacCollSeeger02)
References
- Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 90, "Rounding the Horn" (1 text, 1 tune)
- SHenry H539, pp. 97-98, "The Girls of Valparaiso" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Colcord, pp. 177-178, "The Girls Around Cape Horn" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, RNDHORN* RNDHORN2
- Roud #301
- BI, VWL090