“Tom Bowling”
Description
"Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom (Bowling/Bowline), the darling of our crew." Tom, faithful, kind, virtuous, and beautiful, has now "gone aloft." His family and friends are mentioned. They hope he finds "pleasant weather" in heaven
Notes
As a folk song, this hasn't been very popular (I indexed it mostly for the parallels to "Frank Fidd," which see). But, like many Dibdin pieces, it was widely published in broadsides, and has also shown up in a number of modern anthologies; there are six citations in _Granger's Index to Poetry_. - RBW
Cross references
- cf. "Frank Fidd"
References
- Shay-SeaSongs, pp. 96-97, "Tom Bowline" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, TOMBOWLI
- Roud #1984
- BI, DTtombow