Annotation:Wandering Sailor (The)
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WANDERING SAILOR, THE. English, Air. "The Wandering Sailor" is a song composed by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) for the comic opera Summer Amusement or and Adventure at Margate (1779). It was published in song collections such as Calliope, or the Musical Miscellany (1788, pp. 448-450) and David Sime's The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany (1792, pp. 38-40) and is occasionally found in period musicians' manuscript copybooks.
