Benjamin Britten's Sailor-boy (Folksong Arrangements, Volume 6 no.2 (England)) – folksong arrangement (Appalachian) for high voice and guitar (première 17 June 1958, Britten aged 44). Sailor-boy is another folksong initially collected by Cecil Sharp, and is taken from his Seventeen Nursery Songs from the Appalachian Mountains. It is another addition to the growing canon of Britten settings for Peter Pears and Julian Bream to perform.
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