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"When The Boat Comes In" (or "Dance Ti Thy Daddy") is a traditional English folk song, listed as 2439 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The popular version originates in Northumbria. An early source for the lyrics, Joseph Robson's "Songs of the bards of the Tyne",[1] published 1849, can be found on the FARNE archive.[2] In FARNE's notes to the song, it is stated that the lyrics were written by William Watson in about 1826.
It was popularised as the theme tune of the 1970s BBC drama serial When The Boat Comes In, in an arrangement by the composer David Fanshawe.
- ^ Robson, Joseph Philip, ed. (1850). Songs of the Bards of the Tyne. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: P. France & Co. pp. 392–393.
- ^ "Dance to thy Daddy". FARNE: Folk Archive Resource North East. Gateshead Council. Retrieved 18 May 2019. Direct link will only work once the reader has initiated a search session on FARNE archive.