I Never Was Meant For the Sea (Vane, Bracey)

Composition Year	1864
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the piano; English language; For voice, piano (arr); For voices with keyboard (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

Sheet Music

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Arranger	M. Hobson (1833-1880)
Publisher. Info.	London: James Bath, 1864.
Reprinted	London: James Bath, n.d. (ca. 1880s-1890s).
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	I Never Was Meant for the Sea
Alternative. Title	Humorous Song
Composer	Vane, Bracey
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IBV 1
Key	G major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1864
First Performance.	1864
First Publication.	1864
Librettist	Composer
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voice, piano
Extra Information	A music hall song regards the woes of the river, with the pains of sea sickness being the motto of the number. As a sufferer of very bad motion sickness myself, the song is quite funny! Sung initially by the Great Vance, however it got fame as a humorous drawing room number during the latter part of the Victorian and Edwardian era. This conversion was pretty popular with Georgian popular and early music hall songs.