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Thread #159922   Message #3791664
Posted By: Bat Goddess
23-May-16 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: May Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
Subject: RE: May Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
All righty, then...

The crew was me, Bat Goddess (Linn); Nick Noble of "The Folk Revival", WICN, Worcester, MA; Martha Bowen from Gloucester; Dianne Lavoie.; Charley Noble (Charlie Ipcar); Judy Barrows (JudyB); Ranger1, Don Hale, Bill Lehrman & Carol Pierson from Boston, Nicole Hourihane, Emery Hutchins, Gail Finn & her daughter Amanda, Ramona Connelly, Malcolm Smith, Tyler Buck (also from Massachusetts), Bruce MacIntyre, Carol Coronis, and Gail Diderickson. Jaki was our amazing server who kept us from dying of thirst or starving to death.

What we sang --

1. Gin Was Mother's Ruin/Nurse Pinched the Baby - Linn
2. No More Beer On Sunday - Charlie
3. Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plug Hole - Nick
4. I Drink My Whiskey By the Docks (from Charles O'Hegarty) - Martha
5. The Roseabella - Dianne
6. Parking Lot Pirates - Charlie
7. Plum Island National Anthem - Linn
8. Going Down to Tampa - Hutch
9. Keeper of the Eddystone Light - Nick
10. Circle of the Sun - Judy
11. Rolling to Cairo-Town (Roustabout Song) - Don
12. Where Does an Old Time River Man Go - Charlie
13. Knickerbocker Line - Linn
14. Sam's Gone Away - Dianne
15. Gray Foggy Day - Nicole
16. Blow Ye Winds In the Morning - Nick
17. Old Zeb - Hutch
18. Hills of Isle Au Haut - Martha
19. Grey Funnel Line - Don
20. Hell's Pavement - Charlie
21. Combing the Spanish Main - Nick
22. Sloop John A (Les Barker) - Linn
23. High Barbary - Amanda
24. Fall Down Billy O'Shea - Hutch
25. The Old Fall River Line - Charlie
26. General Taylor - Dianne
27. Let the Light From Your Lighthouse Shine On Me - Martha
28. The Yarn of the Nancy Bell - Nick
29. Three Score and Ten - Don
30. Farewell to Nova Scotia - Nicole
31. River Lea - Hutch
32. Mother Carey - Charlie
33. Bay of Biscay - Linn
34. Sunny's Dream - Gail & Amanda
35. In the Trawling Trade - Tyler
36. Sprig of Thyme - Dianne
37. Bold Riley - Nick
38. Nine Times a Night - Linn
39. Hey, Rain - Hutch
40. Roll Out! Heave Dat Cotton - Charlie
41. Isle Au Haut Lullaby - Martha
42. A Whale of a Tale - Nick
43. The Story of the River - Judy
44. Shenandoah - Amanda
45. Jamestown Homeward Bound - Don (truncated)
46. Farewell to Tarwaithie - Don
47. Oh, Molasses - Nick
48. Sorrows of the Sailor - Bruce
49. Marching Inland - Dianne
50. Sailor's Prayer - Linn
51. Haul Away for Rosie - Bruce
52. Rose of Allendale - Gail Finn
53. Hieland Laddie - Tyler
54. Song For The Mira - Martha
55. West Indies Blues - Charlie
56. Backside of Nantucket Point - Linn
Somewhere in here (while I was singing) came the wail of a saxophone from upstairs that sounded like a manatee in distress.
57. Capital Ship - Nick
58. Tinker, Tailor, soldier, Singer - Dianne
Then I said we had time for one short song before the closer...and when no one else piped up, I sang...
59. Shanty In Old Shanty Town (Jerry Bryant) - Linn
Then everyone seemed to have a super short song...
60. Ballad of the Vassa ("It was Monday morning when we set sail / And she sank to the bottom of the sea.") - Charlie
61. My Name It Is Dan Dan - Don
62. Papa Loves Mama (Burl Ives: world's shortest folksong) - Linn
63. You Stole My Wife, You Horse Thief - Bruce
64. The Horse Ran Around With His Foot On the Ground (from my dad) - Linn
65. Another short song - Amanda
66. Seaman's Hymn (Nelson's Prayer) - Don and the Company

That's it. As usual, let me know of any amendments or corrections.

Thanks, everyone, for coming!
Linn