PUBLIC CANDIDATE -- the album credits the song as traditional ("all others are traditional", Mainly Norfolk record page https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/karancasey.html ); Frank Harte learned it from the singing of Bob McCreesh (A Living Voice: The Frank Harte Song Collection, via Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=99017 ); Roud 45708 (Mainly Norfolk / Roud index); Harte and Donal Lunny recorded it on "The Hungry Voice" (Hummingbird, 2004). No author, broadside or date was found in a 2026-10-29 search (searched: title + Frank Harte, Mudcat, Mainly Norfolk, "Bob McCreesh") -- origin UNKNOWN, treated as traditional on the album credit. WORDS: NOT YET IN THIS FILE -- the cloud session that built this sheet had no page access and the lead does not know the text reliably; sources to take the words from: the Mudcat transcription of the Harte recording (thread 99017) and the Casey/Doyle sung text (Hogfiddle lyric post http://hogfiddle.blogspot.com/2010/11/sailing-off-to-yankee-land.html ), compared against each other. CHORDS: the chord stream below is read by beat count from Chief's Chordify grid of the Casey/Doyle video (key Eb, capo 1, D shapes, 83 BPM, 345 beats; reference only, not copied); each line = 8 beats (2 bars of 4/4). Cross-check: ChordU auto-detection of the Harte recording https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-sailing-off-to-the-yankee-land-id_1D8P79-D9H0 (unreliable).

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