"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Britain! Says Freedom, "Why that's my own island!" O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island, Search the globe round, none can be found So happy as this little island."
— Thomas John Dibdin

January 1, 1970

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"The Snug Little Island", st. 1. The British Raft (c. 1797). Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, DNB, vol. 15 (1888) p. 10:—"At Canterbury [Dibdin] wrote The British Raft, ridiculing the threatened French invasion, and its one song, "The Snug Little Island", attained astonishing popularity. It was first sung by "Jew" Davis at Sadler's Wells, on Easter Monday, 1797, while Dibdin was acting at Maidstone, where he himself sang it before Lord Romney, and it gained him the friendship of the Duke of Leeds." Lin