In the summer of 1928 James Madison Carpenter collected three shanties from Roderick Enderson, a resident at the Royal Alfred home for merchant seamen at Belvedere. In his notes to Enderson’s song ‘Down in the meadows’ Carpenter noted that the singer had been born in America, had first shipped in 1871 (so one might assume that he had been born in the early 1850s), and had transferred to British ships in 1885.
Songs
- Blow Boys Blow (Roud 2624)
- Down in the Meadows (The Meadows Down Below) (Roud 22910)
- Heave Away (Roud 616)
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