Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids

A Brief List of Works Containing "Barnacle Bill the Sailor"

Compiled by: Joseph C. Hickerson
Publication Date: January 24, 1968

Colcord, Joanna C.
Songs of American Sailormen. Reprint edition, New York: Oak Publications, 1964. Pp 178-179. "Abram Brown."

Fuld, James J.
The Book of World-Famous Music. New York: Crown, 1966. Pp. 110-111.

Greenleaf, Elisabeth Bristol and Grace Yarrow Mansfield.
Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. P. 105. "Abram Brown the Sailor."

Harlow, Frederick Pease.
Chanteying Aboard American Ships. Barre, Mass.: Barre Gazette, 1962, Pp. 164-166.

Hugill, Stan.
Shanties from the Seven Seas. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1961. Pp. 440-442. "Abel Brown the Sailor."

Linton, E. R.
The Dirty Songbook: American Bawdy Songs. Los Angeles: Medco Books, 1965. Pp. 115-117. "Bollochy Bill, the Sailor."

Luther, Frank and Carson J. Robinson.
Barnacle Bill the Sailor. New York: Southern Music, 1929.

Lynn, Frank.
Songs for Singin'. San Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co., 1961. Pp. 54-55.

Shay, Frank.
American Sea Songs and Chanteys. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. 1948. P. 204. "Rollicky Bill the Sailor."

More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. New York: New York, 1928. P. 102. "Rollicky Bill the Sailor."

United States Navy, Bureau of Navy Personnel.
Navy Song Book. N.p., 1945. Pp. 12-13.