I Saw Three Ships
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A popular traditional English Christmas carol. The earliest printed version is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William Sandys in 1833. An alternate 19th-century version mentions three pretty girls in the ship entertaining at a wedding held on New Year's Day.
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- "I Saw Three Ships" in Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1833).
- "New-Year's Day" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (1895).
- "I saw Three Ships" in The Baby's Opera (1900)
- "As I sat on a Sunny Bank" (first version) in English Folk-Carols (1911)
- "As I sat on a Sunny Bank" (second version) in English Folk-Carols (1911)
- "As I sat by my old cottage door" in English Folk-Carols (1911)