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Here’s a ghost story for Halloween – the great old slow sea shanty Lowlands, with an engraving drawn from Van der Velde and photos from Geoffrey Robertshaw.
To find out more about Robertshaw and his fabulous photos of the last days of sail, click here.
For more sea songs from our friends and ourselves, click here.
PS – Like many others, I was astonished to learn that this year’s Turner Prize has been won by a sound sculpture featuring this very song.
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