Annotation:Jack Ratlin
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JACK RATLIN. AKA - "Jack Ratlin was the ablest seaman." English, Air (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) appears in several late 18th century songsters such as Calliope (1788) and Sime's The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany (1793).
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 5), Glasgow, 1797; No. 38, p. 15.
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