Golden Vanity- Crowell (NS) pre1950 Creighton E
[From: Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia by Helen Creighton (1899– 1989) Creighton and Doreen Senior. Five versions of Child 286 were published. Here's a few brief biographical bits from the Maine Folklife Center:
Helen Creighton was born into an old and distinguished Halifax family in 1899 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She was born with a caul, a folkloric sign of good fortune. In the 1920s, she began to write travel pieces, fiction, and stories for the radio.
Creighton began her career as a folk music collector in 1928. In 1931 Creighton found a partner in her efforts; the English folklorist Doreen Senior. During the 1930s the pair traveled throughout Nova Scotia gathering folksongs. Creighton sought out the informants and recorded song lyrics, while Senior transcribed the music. Creighton and Senior published Twelve Folk Songs from Nova Scotia in 1941; and Traditional Songs from Nova Scotia in 1950.
R. Matteson 2014]
E. The Golden Vanity- Sung by Captain William Crowell, Dartmouth.
I have a ship in the west counteree,
The name that she goes by is the Golden Vanity,
I'm feared she will be taken by some other Turkish crew
As she cruises along the lowlands,
As she cruises along the lowlands,
As she cruises along the lowlands low.
The boy took an auger and overboard swam he
And he swam alongside the Golden Vanity.