The Snug Little Island
Appearance
- "Daddy Neptune" in Catharine Ogie (1815-1825)
- "The Tight Little Island" in Tight little island (1818)
- "The Snug Little Island" in Bonny lass of Calder Braes (1820)
"At Canterbury [Dibdin] wrote 'The British Raft' [1797-8], ridiculing the threatened French invasion, and its one song, 'The Snug Little Island,' attained astonishing popularity." —"Dibdin, Thomas John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.