Bob Pittman, sailor narrator of popular Newfoundland folk song "The Ryans and the Pittmans", which was partially composed around 1875 by W. H. LeMessurier and printed in Old Songs of Newfoundland (1912)
It is based on a traditional English capstan shanty, "Spanish Ladies", which describes headlands sighted on a sailor's homeward voyage through the English Channel.
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:Some rings and gold brooches for the girls in the Bay;