"Bay of Biscay, The"
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O the Bay of Biscay
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23 April 2013
Attributed to John Davy; Grove says, however: "Today he [Davy] is remembered, if at all, for a fine sea-song, ‘The Bay of Biscay’, introduced in his opera Spanish Dollars. In fact the tune was that of a shanty sung to him by the tenor Charles Incledon, who had picked it up when he was a sailor in the 1780s."
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