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Being a song of the translatlantic packet ships (1840s-50s), as per oral accounts retold in later days, "Blow the Man Down" appears to have existed since those days. However, in the textual record, so far as I am able to tell at present, "Knock a Man Down" actually appears first.
Adams, in his 1879 ON BOARD THE ROCKET, describes some of the chanteys he heard circa 1850s. It is one of the first books to present chanteys WITH musical notation (albeit with some irregularities). Among them is "Knock a Man Down," but NOT "Blow the Man Down." That version is the first one I sing here. Adams noted just the first, but he goes on to say that on that pattern, one "can wish he was in every known port in the world, to whose name he can find a rhyme." (He then goes on to offer the building blocks of the subsequent verses I sing.) So, here is THE classic chantey lyric paradigm, that goes back to the earliest documented samples of chanteys' predecessors, the cotton-stowing songs of Mobile Bay. And, accordingly, the first verse here is about that. So, "Knock a man Down" has the earmarks of an African-American "chant" from the early days.
Adam's notation of this chantey was reproduced, fixed up, in Luce's 1883 collection NAVAL SONGS. Elsewhere in that collection, Luce also includes an item called "BLACK BALL. 'Chanty' Song. Sung in the merchant service in heavy-hauling." Funny, he makes no comparison between the two songs. Perhaps this was because the melody of the latter was quite a bit curvier and had a completely different text -- the "Black Ball Line" theme. Incidentally, this Black Ball theme, although it is known to be one of several variants to "Blow the Man Down," is not the most commonly known nowadays, however I believe it may have been he earliest.
What this shows is that, at that time, "Blow the Man Down" was certainly not a "famous" one in the contemporary sense. However, in LA Smith's book from 1888, she does mention "Blow the Man Down" by name, just not with a big hullabaloo.
Back to "Knock a Man Down" -- it appears again in 1914 in Cecil Sharp's chantey collection. He got it from John Short. This is the second version I sing here. It starts with a full chorus, atypical of a halyard chantey. Only a verse or so came from John Short, and the rest added by Sharp (so I didn't sing those). And this is the version which is partially reproduced in Stan Hugill's book.
For the uninitiated: "blow" was the slang for "knock down" or "hit", which explains the evolution of the chorus phrase, when it was taken up by the "Packet Rats." Other versions of "Blow the Man Down" adopt various ballad themes, including the ones from "Ratcliffe Highway," "The Fishes of the Sea," and "Quare Bungo Rye."
So it is a "classic" chantey tale. A mainly African-American work song of the Southern states was probably learned by migrant sailor-workers and taken up by the largely Irish crews of the American packet ships, to which various ballad themes were worked in. Voila!: Sea chanteys.
For versions of "Blow the Man Down," see:
Ratcliffe Highway theme:
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