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Title: Disappointed
Review: I feel bad about giving only 2 stars to a man's life's work but I bought this book on the basis of other reviews that referred to it as comprehensive. Unfortunately it is anything but comprehensive. In almost every second or third song Stan comments that he has had to modify or clean up the lyrics (at the publisher's insistence?). I was looking for a definitive reference point for how sea songs were sung by seamen in the age of sail - this book cannot be that if the songs have been sanitised for the sensibilities of another era.Having said the above, it is still a wonderful book, full of information about how to sing shanties etc. but I am just left wondering what the songs real lyrics were.
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