"Swansea Town", also known as "Old Swansea Town Once More" is the widespread version in Wales of the sea shanty "Fine Girl You Are", also known as "The Holy Ground" and was collected in Hampshire in 1905 by George Gardiner (sung by William Randall of Hursley); even if there are many variations of the text, here is the version similar to the Irish one: the protagonist probably embarks on a whaler and thinks with nostalgia to the girl left behind. A very hard life that of the whale fishermen who were a lots of months in the open sea at the mercy of the weather. The tune was originally a windlass and capstan shanty - a song sung as sailors turned the capstan to raise the anchor. Gustav Holst's Second Suite in F for Military Band (Op. 28, No. 2), Movement 1 contains a Morris dance ( "Glorishears" ), "Swansea Town" and "Claudy Banks".