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Thread #119219   Message #3555567
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
03-Sep-13 - 02:49 AM
Thread Name: Sea Chanteys/Shanties page-Gibb Sahib
Subject: RE: Sea Chanteys/Shanties page-Gibb Sahib
Even though I did not get to attend the Mystic Seaport festival this year, it's been a good summer for learning new chanties / variations. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, I learned up to ~80 new ones—See, there's still stuff out there to be "discovered"! Here's a last batch, as the kids and teachers go back to school.

It general, I like the ones from Anguilla best!

From Harlow's book:
Fire Down Below

Dutch and French, from Hugill's later volume:
De Ijzere Man
Madeleine

Anguilla:
Bowline
Old Mother Dinah
Adieu, Fare-you-well
One Hundred Years and a Hilo

Nevis
John John, the Water Man
A Coolie is Nobody
Shub Her Down / Georgy, Me Neck a-Broke
Do, My Jolly Boy (Johnny Bowker)
Blow, Boy, Blow
Grey Goose Gone Home
When You Go, Tell Julia (I am bound away)
Blow the Man Down (2 variations)

Saint Vincent
Bully Long Time Ago (3 variations)
Rolling River
Sintali (Tally I O)
Lee Lee O
Mr. Cobeau
Haul Away (2 variations)
We Are Bound Down South Alibama
Little Boy Lonzo
Tinnego
Squall in the Morning (Blow, My Bully Boy)

Carriacou:
Roll and Go / Sally Brown (4 Variations)
Shame, Jimmy Riley Oh

Tobago:
Pull Away, Me Boy

Trinidad:
And Away-ay Yah! (Captain, What's Your Cargo?)

St. Kitts:
Chaun Fine, My Deary Hunney

Saint Thomas:
Fine Time o' Day