Oh, Belinda

U.S.A.

SONG NOTES

Oh, Belinda, also known as Bow, Belinda, is an American folk tune. Oh, Belinda is a sea shanty; sea shanties are traditional work songs that were sung on sailing ships. Oh, Belinda shares a tune with another well known shanty, What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor, which was first recorded in writing in a history of a whaling voyage in Connecticut in 1839. There is some historical evidence that the tune is even older, and perhaps originated from Maine; similar tunes are also present in Irish folk music dating as far back as the 1700s.

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