I Saw Three Ships

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I Saw Three Ships

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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Versions of I Saw Three Ships include:

"I Saw Three Ships" in Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (ed.) by William Sandys (1833).
"New-Year's Day" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (ed.) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).
"As I sat on a Sunny Bank" (first version) in English Folk-Carols (1911) by Cecil Sharp
"As I sat on a Sunny Bank" (second version) in English Folk-Carols (1911) by Cecil Sharp
"As I sat by my old cottage door" in English Folk-Carols (1911) by Cecil Sharp

I Saw Three Ships

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