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Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts. Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the ''Courser'' or the ''Tuscarora'', a ship purportedly so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon. == Origin == The name of Stormalong first appeared in a cycle of sea shanties that Stan Hugill, in his ''Sea Shanties of the Seven Seas'', traces back to African-American folk songs of the 1830s and '40s. Bearing names like "Mister Stormalong", "Way Stormalong John", and "Yankee John, Stormalong", these sailors' work songs generally featured praise for a deceased seaman and for his benevolent son. A typical lyric went: :Ol' Stormy he is dead and gone, :To me way you Storm-a-long! :Ol' Stormy he is dead and gone, :Aye! Aye! Aye! Mister Storm-a-long!〔Hugill, Stan, ''Sea Shanties of the Seven Seas'', pp. 71-78〕 The tall tales about Stormalong first appeared in the 1930 book ''Here's Audacity!'' by Frank Shay. More tales appeared in the 1933 pamphlet ''Old Stormalong Yarns'' by C.E. Brown.〔Osborne, Mary Pope, ''American Tall Tales'', p. 17〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Bulltop Stormalong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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