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drown; in some the boy obtains the reward by threatening to sink his own ship. Other variants have the boy dying on the deck after being hauled aboard by ' his shipmates, and in one up-dated version (recorded by Woody Guthrie) the captain shoots the boy. One version reported from England a century ago shows a remarkable affinity with pre-sent-day naval terminology: The boy bent hi» breast and away he swam. Saying Master take me up or I shall be slain. For I have effected their total overthrow, And I have sunk them in the Lowlands Low. Samuel Pepys was the first to collect “The Golden Vanity,” from a seventeenthcentury broadsides by one I. Conyers. The original title was “Sir Walter Raleigh sailing the Lowlands.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30610, 28 November 1964, Page 18
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