There was a jolly boatman

Mr Sawkins

Collected by Francis Collinson, Pembury, 26^th March 1952

Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection COL/5/59B

Roud 570

Under the title ‘The Bold Boatswain of Dover’ this song was published on broadsides in the first half of the nineteenth century by, among others, the London printers J. Pitts and J. Catnach. A Catnach printing can be viewed in an Album of Broadside Ballads, Volume 5, held by the University of Kentucky.