Traditional
In E♭ major, range B♭2 to E♭4
A sailor far from home longs to see the Shenandoah River again, “away, across the wide Missouri”. It is a sea shanty: one voice sings a line and the whole crew answers. Cecil Sharp printed it in 1914 under the name “Shanadar”, with the piano part used here.
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