Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 04:06 PM

100
OOOh I haven't done that for ages.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 22 Feb 21 - 03:31 PM

Gibb
Did you ever work out what the 10 new items were in the 3rd edition of D&T?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: sciencegeek
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 05:24 AM

this is how the breakdown in Salt sea ballads went... but JWB goes into more detail further up this post

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: sciencegeek
Date: 26 Sep 20 - 05:16 AM

Salt Sea Ballads   - R R Terry
Curwen Press Edition 7928, 1931


I.    General

1.   The Lion man-o-war
2.   Don’t forget your old shipmate
3.   Homeward Bound
4.   Spanish Ladies
5.   The Golden Vanitee
6.   Hob-a-derry dando
7.   Cawsand Bay
8.   Doo me ama day
9.   From Boston Harbour
10. John Dory
11. Rolling Home
12. The Boson’s Warning
13. The Chesapeake and Shannon
14. Admiral Benbow
15. High Barbaree
16. The Saucy Arethusa
17. Time for us to go
18. When the stormy winds do blow

II.   Northumbrian

19. Blaw the wind southerly
20. Bobby Shafty
21. I drew my ship into a harbour
22. When the boat comes in
23. O the bonny fisher lad
24. Ma bonny lad
25. Andrew Carr
26. The Antigallican Privateer
27. Here’s the tender comin’
28. Liberty for the sailors

III. Parodies

29.   The Cruise of the Calabar
30.   The Chinese Bumboat Man

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Harry Rivers
Date: 12 Nov 16 - 01:40 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: GUEST,Allan
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 02:30 PM

Words to a song of a ship leaving Liverpool to cross the Atlantic.
   A curly haired boy stowaway is found on board by the ships mate.In conversation it is learned that they are father and son.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 09:16 AM

A review of Marston's _Shanties_, in Music & Letters (april 1922), is simple and blunt. The review asks what the point is to print a dozen of the best known shanties when there were already existing a half-dozen collections full of dozens of shanties.

Ah yes, but what little gems does it hold, like the "Swing yo' tail" (current thread) fragment?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 16 Jan 13 - 03:04 AM

Can anyone, who has seen it, comment on the work _Shanties_ by George Marston and Doris Allen (H. Horsnell & H. Roberts, 1921)? It is not available in my area, and I would be pleased to know its contents.

It appears to be only 14 pages long, and I am guessing that it is a sort of songbook with tunes and lyrics for performance.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 08:13 AM

Q listed the contents of W.B. Whall's "Sea Songs and Shanties" above.

eBay has a copy of the 1920 edition (stated as "first edition", but the book first appeared in 1910).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sea-Songs-and-Shanties-W-B-Whall-1920-First-Edition-/110926697773?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item19d3bf152d

Not bad if you got it for the starting price (£15). But the book is still in print, available from the original publishers, now known as Brown, Son & Ferguson (Glasgow) at £9.95. (£12.15 inc UK post, £14.81 overseas).

http://www.skipper.co.uk/catalogue/item/sea-songs-and-shanties

I have linked to Brown, Son & Ferguson's website in the Merchant Navy Songs Permathread. No other shanty books in their catalogue, but an incredible variety of books on Maritime subjects from the days of sail right up to technical manuals of the modern era. "Sea Songs and Shanties" is in the Story of the Sea section of the catalogue.

Ross

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 21 May 12 - 05:38 AM

I'm looking to see what Sampson's (1927 Seven Seas Shanty Book) melody/music is for the chanty "Lowlands (Away)". The book seems rather rare in the States; I've only gotten a glimpse into the contents through the kindness of postings by other Mudcatters. However, I've still not seen the melody. Anyone able to help out? Thank you all.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jan 12 - 05:12 PM

Here's an update of Shipcmo's index:

Sea Songs Tunes Index (joeweb)

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 09:49 PM

Shipcmo sent me a copy of the very impressive tunes index he's been working on. Take a look:

Sea Song Tunes Index

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: GUEST,JimP
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 08:55 PM

King's Book of Chanties, Oliver Dotson Co. (1918) is mentioned above, but it doesn't look like anyone's transcribed the index, so here it is, from my copy. I should say that this is just a small pamphlet, and although the titles of these chanteys are familiar, many of the verses are quite different from those currently sung (at least around here - grin). I've kept King's spellings.

LONG DRAG CHANTIES
A Long Time Ago
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow the Man Down
Bony Was a Warrior
Dead Horse, The
Hanging Johnnie
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Reuben Ranzo
Roll the Cotton Down
Tom's Gone to Ilo
Whisky for My Johnnie

SHORT DRAG CHANTIES
Haul Away, Joe
Haul on the Bowline
Johnny Boker
Paddy Doyle

CAPSTAN CHANTIES
Homeward Bound
Hooda-Day
Plains of Mexico, The
Rio Grande
Sally Brown
We're All Bound to Go
Wide Missouri, The

PUMPING CHANTIES
One More Day
Storm-Along

OLD SEA SONGS
A-Roving
Farewell, and Adieu to You
High Barbaree
Rolling Home

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 19 Apr 11 - 02:25 PM

Does anyone here know the exact contents of the 2nd edition of Davis and Tozer's collection?

We know the contents of the first edition, and of the third (added 10 more to the 2nd) and the "Revised" (added an alternate piano arrangement for "A Roving").

If no one knows, then I am going to do some text analysis and try to figure it out.

My interest is in knowing what versions of the text would have been available to other authors at various times. The writer Lubbock, for example, borrows some chanties (without credit, I believe) from Davis/Tozer for his 1902 book. Those chanties were not in D/T's first edition, and if the 3rd did not come out until 1906, they must have been in the 2nd edition. That D/T took the chanties from Lubbock is unlikely, I think.

I hope is that in nailing down the form of the 2nd edition, we can see the direction of influence easier. Especially since D/T tended to rewrite all the texts they collected, thereby obscuring their origins.

D/T was hugely influential on other writers of the time. And other writers repeating the same texts seems to have created a false consensus that their lyrics were authentic. I think that Stan Hugill was later "fooled" by this false consensus, and in adopting these lyrics into his own collection, they have received yet another stamp of authenticity.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Lighter
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:01 AM

Our library has the Williams article.

More later.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 02:21 AM

There are a few collections/articles about chanties from the early 20th century that I'd like to review, but have not yet obtained. Would anyone like to share information about the contents of the following?:

1. 1904        Bradford, John and Arthur Fagge. _Old Sea Chanties._ London: Metzler & Co.

A small collection of just 17 pages. I believe it contains at least the following chanties, which were recorded ca. 1905 by the Minster Singers (see the thread on "Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings"):

"Blow, My Bully Boys"
"Sally Brown"
"Whisky Johnny"
"Shenandoah"
"Rio Grande"
"Blow the Man Down."

I believe this was the first collection BTW to use the somewhat awkward phrase "sea chanties."

2. 1905 ??. "Some deep sea chanties." _Saturday Evening Post_ (2 Sept 1905).

3. 1905 ??. (Article on chanties). _Manchester Guardian_ (16 Aug. 1905).

4. 1906        Bernard, D.H. "Sea Songs and Chanties." _The Nautical Magazine_ 75.

5. 1909        Williams, J.H. "The Sailors' 'Chanties'." _The Independent_ (8 July 1909):76-83.

6. 1915        Derby, Thomas. "Sailors' Chanties or Working Songs of the Sea." _Manchester Quarterly_ 34: 285-302.

7. 1917        Brown, R. Curtis. "Sailors' Shanties." _The Nautical Magazine_ 97: 294-9.

I believe some of the above articles had their chanties harvested by authors of the better-known collections, so it would be instructive to see them.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 11:55 PM

Ten Shanties Sung on the Australian Run 1879, Haswell, George H., The Antipodes Press, Perth. 1992.

Heave Away, My Johnny
Haulin' The Bowlin
Handy Jim
Haul Away
The Dead Horse
The Requiem
Bonny
Whisky
Blow The Man Down
Ranzo
Good Bye Fare Ye Well

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Lighter
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 10:26 AM

Gibb, belated agreement that your D & T must be from '27, not '06, for most all the reasons you give.

It's also useful to see the publisher explicitly dating the first edition to 1887. When it appeared it was undated, and though 1887 was always the most likely date, this confirms it.

Acc. to WorldCat, ed. 1 has 48pp., ed. 2, 78pp., ed. 3, 95pp., and the "Revised Edition," 97pp.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 09:33 AM

Some Nineteenth Century Shanties, Hatfield, James Taft, The Journal of American Folklore,Vol. 59, 1946

Blow A Man Down
Rio Grande
Fire Down Below
Shiny O!
Sally Brown
Nancy Rhee
Bound To Go
South Australia
Shake Her Up
Way Down Low
Whiskey Johnny

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:36 AM

I have my hands on a copy of Davis & Tozer that I believe is probably the same version Q posted at the top of this thread. It is the "Revised Edition," not the Third. I believe it (or at least the one I have) can be dated to around 1927 -- unless it is a reprint of that edition. Some of the interesting things are that W.K. Hill, in his preface, makes reference to "the lover of folk music" and to "folk songs." I don't know for sure, but that doesn't sound to me like 1906 talk. And he says "As long ago as the year 1887..." in reference to the first edition. That sounds too distant a past for 1906. He says that aircraft was only a dream back then, but that now there is a "conquest of the air" -- which suggest tome after WWI.

The back of the book has ads for other publications. (Again, I suppose this could be a reprint, so, FWIW:) One add is for Sampson's _Seven Seas Shanty Book_ which came out in 1927. Also an ad for Davis & Tozer's own book, with a note that the original had appeared almost 40 years earlier.

Ads for other musical arrangements of chanties, too, always with the redundant phrase "sea shanties" that one imagines had become popular by that time as they were adopted as "folk" music.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 07:37 AM

Sailors' Shanties And Sea-Songs, Chambers's Journal, Dec 11, 1869, pages 795-796

words only:
Haul the Bowline
We're Outward Bound
On the Banks of the Sacremento
Rio Grande
Slapandergosheka
Highland Day
So Handy

mentioned:
Valparaiso
Round the Horn
Santa Anna
Oceanida
Johnny's Gone
The Black Ball Line
Land O, Boys, Land O
Haul away, my Josey

plus a number of Forebitters & Parlor songs

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 06:53 AM

Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore
                         Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1952

                            Volume 2 (words only)
The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
The Golden Willow Tree
The Lonesome Low
Cabin Boy
Lowland Lonesome Low
The Mermaid
The Faithful Sailor Boy
Captain Kidd
High Barbary
Lost on the Lady Elgin
The Ship That Never Returned
Paul Jones
The Florence C. McGee

                                  Volume 3 (words only)
I'll Fire Dis Trip (Fire down below)
Haul, Haul, Haul, Boys
Old Horse, Old Horse
For Six Days Do All That Thou Art Able
Alphabet Of The Ship
Whip Jamboree
I Have A Father In My Native Land ('A Sailor's Chantey')
Sal's In The Garden Sifting Sand

                            Volume 4 (music)
The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity)
The Turkish Revoloo
The Golden Willow Tree
The Lonesome Low
The Lonesome Low (second version)
Cabin Boy
The Mermaid
Stormy Winds
The Faithful Sailor Boy
The Sailor Boy
High Barbary
The Ship That Never Returned
Paul Jones
The Florence C. McGee

                              Volume 5 (music)
I'll Fire Dis Trip (Fire down below)
Alphabet Of The Ship
Whip Jamboree
Blow the Man Down
Hanging Johnnie
Haul Away, Joe
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
When Johnnie Comes Down to Hilo
Whiskey Johnny

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 09 Jan 11 - 06:31 AM

"Around Cape Horn to Honolulu on The Bark Amy Turner 1880",
   L. Vernon Briggs,
1926


"Old Horse", p44,
"What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?", p86-7
"The Ship "Neptune"", 87-9
"As I Was A Walking Up Dennison Street", p89-91
"Ranzo". p92-4
"Orenso", p95-8
"Haul Away, Joe", p98-100
"Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow", p100-02
"Whiskey for My Johnny", p103-04
"Santa Anna on the Plains of Mexico", p170-2

I came upon the reference to this book in the Carpenter Online Catalog.
(words only)

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:28 AM

Almost forgot:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20774/20774-h/20774-h.htm

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:23 AM

The Shanty Book
Part I
Sailor Shanties

Collected and Edited, with Pianoforte Accompaniment, by RICHARD RUNCIMAN TERRY, with a Foreword by SIR WALTER RUNCIMAN, Bart.

LONDON
J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 24 Berners Street, W. 1
Copyright, 1921, by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd.


Billy Boy        2
Blow, my bully boys        32
Blow the man down        34
Boney was a warrior        54
Bound for the Rio Grande        4
Cheer'ly, men        36
Clear the track, let the Bullgine run        10
Dead Horse, The        48
Good-bye, fare ye well        6
Good morning, ladies all        38
Hanging Johnny        40
Haul away, Joe        56
Hilo Somebody        42
Hog's-eye Man, The        24
Johnny Boker        55
Johnny come down to Hilo        8
Lowlands away        12
Oh run, let the Bullgine run        44
Paddy Doyle's boots        59
Reuben Ranzo        46
Sally Brown        16
Santy Anna        18
Shenandoah        20
Stormalong John        22
Tom's gone to Hilo        50
We'll haul the bowlin'        58
We're all bound to go        28
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?        30
Whisky Johnny        52
Wild Goose Shanty, The        26

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 12:43 PM

Jolly Sailors Bold, Stuart Frank, 2010

Chapter One — Classical Songs of the Sea:
An Eighteenth-Century Garland 1
1. Black-Eyed Susan [Dark-Eyed Susan] 2
2. Tom Bowling [Poor Tom] (Dibdin) 5
3. Bay of Biscay O 7
4. The Storm [Cease, Rude Boreas] 8
5. Henry Martin [Salt Sea] (Child #250) 10
6. The Bold Trinity (Child #286) 13
7. High Barbary (Child #285; Laws #K-33) 16
8. Spanish Ladies [Farewell and Adieu] 18
Chapter Two — The Girl I Left Behind Me:
Songs About Women 21
9. The Girl I Left Behind Me 23
10. The Lily of Lake Champlain 25
11. The Norfolk Girls 28
12. My Dream 30
13. My Wife—A Song 31
14. Lines to Mary 33
15. The Carpenter and the Maid 34
16. The Milking Maid 36
17. Frozen Limb 37
18. Can Ladies Be Compared to Man ? 38
Chapter Three — The Sailors' Farewell:
Songs of Parting 39
19. The Lowlands of Holland 40
20. The Nantucket Mother and Daughter 43
21. The Banks of the Schuylkill 45
22. West's Farewell 47
23. The British Man-of-War
[The Yankee Man-of-War] 48
24. The Captain Calls All Hands 51
25. Farewell, Charming Nancy (Laws #K-14) 53
26. Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy 55
27. My Mary Ann [Mary Ann] 57
28. Outward Bound 59
29. The Sailor Boy's Farewell 60
30. The Ship Is Ready 62
31. Caledonia [Jamie Raeburn's Farewell] 64
Chapter Four — Jolly Sailors Bold:
Deepwater Songs and Ballads 66
32. Jolly Sailors Bold [Sailors' Come-All-Ye] 67
33. Boston ['Twas on the Twenty-First of May] 71
34. Captain Avery 74
35. The Brooklyn 75
36. The Dreadnought (Laws #D-13) 77
37. Eighteen Hundred Forty-Nine 80
38. Unmooring [The Boatswain's Call] 81
39. The Loss of the Ramillies (Laws #K-1) 84
40. Prince Edward's Isle 86
41. Homeward Bound 88
42. We'll Soon Be There 89
43. Sweet America 90
Chapter Five — Heave Away, My Hearties:
Deepwater Chanteys 91
44. The Sailor's Alphabet 92
45. Goodbye, Fare Ye Well 95
46. Heave Away [We're All Bound to Go] 97
47. Reuben Ranzo 99
48. Old Horse 101
49. Homeward Bound and Outward Bound 104
50. Homeward Bound (II) 107
Chapter Six — Battle Pieces:
Naval, Military, and Patriotic Ballads 109
51. Paul Jones's Victory (Laws #A-4) 110
52. Constitution and Guerriere (Laws #A-6) 113
53. Columbia's Ships 115
54. The Sinking of the Commodore 117
55. The Hills of Chilia 118
56. The Somers 119
57. The Monitor and the Merrimac 122
58. Lee's Invasion of Maryland 125
59. Florida's Crew [The Florida's Cruise] 127
60. Navy Song [We Ride Head to Wind] 130
Chapter Seven — A Bonny Bunch of Roses:
Napoleonic Songs and Ballads 131
61. Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 132
62. Bonaparte on the Isle of St. Helena 133
63. Bonny Bunch of Roses O (Laws #J-5) 135
64. The Drummer Boy of Waterloo (Laws #J-1) 137
65. Napoleon's Dream [Bonaparte's Dream] 139
66. The Green Linnet (O'Neill #1262) 142
Chapter Eight — Tarry Trousers:
Ballads of Lovers Lost and Lovers Spurned 145
67. Lady Franklin's Lament (Laws #K-9) 146
68. The Sailor Bride's Lament (Laws #K-10) 151
69. The Sailor Boy (Laws #K-12) 153
70. Mary's Dream (Laws #K-20) 156
71. The Maid on the Shore (Laws #K-27) 158
72. Green Beds [Young Johnny] (Laws #K-36) 160
73. The Sailor and the Country Girl (Laws #K-38) 162
74. The Maiden's Pride Punished 164
75. Bright Phoebe 165
76. Tarry Trousers [The Mother and Daughter] 166
Chapter Nine — Love Impeded:
Ballads of Family Opposition to Lovers 169
77. Early, Early in the Spring (Laws #M-1) 170
78. William and Harriet (Laws #M-7) 171
79. The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Laws #M-25) 173
80. The Bold Soldier (Laws #M-27) 177
81. Vilikins and His Dinah (Laws #M-31b) 179
82. The Constant Farmer's Son (Laws #M-33) 181
83. Edwin in the Lowlands Low (Laws #M-34) 183
Chapter Ten — Love Entangled:
Ballads of Lovers' Disguises and Tricks 185
84. Jack Munroe (Laws #N-7) 185
85. The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Laws #N-10) 188
86. The Handsome Cabin Boy (Laws #N-13) 193
87. The Noble Duke (Laws #N-15) 195
88. The Prince of Morocco
[The Sailor Boy's Trick] (Laws #N-18) 197
89. The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Laws #N-35) 200
90. The Mantle So Green (Laws #N-38) 203
91. The Pride of Glencoe (Laws #N-39) 205
Chapter Eleven — The Jolly Roving Tar:
Ballads of Faithful and Unfaithful Lovers 207
92. Cuper's Garden [Cobit's Garden] 208
93. The Lass of Mohee (Laws #H-8) 211
94. The Jacket of Blue 215
95. Ellen the Fair (Laws #O-5) 217
96. The Sailor and the Shepherdess (Laws #O-8) 218
97. The Jolly Sailor 220
98. The Sailor's Return 221
99. Green Mossy Banks of the Lea (Laws #O-15) 222
100. The Bold Fisherman (Laws #O-24) 224
101. The Jolly Roving Tar (Laws #O-27) 225
102. The Bold Privateer (Laws #O-32) 226
103. William Riley 227
104. Jemmy on the Sea 229
105. The Sailor and the Tailor (Laws #P-4) 231
106. The Pride of Kildare (Laws #P-6) 232
107. The Rakish Young Fellow 234
108. Mary of the Wild Moor (Laws #P-21) 236
109. Caroline of Edinburgh Town (Laws #P-27) 237
110. Oxford City (Laws #P-30) 239
111. Jack Robinson 240
Chapter Twelve — Terra Incognita:
Comic and Convivial Songs 242
112. All Around The Room [Ellen Taylor] 243
113. Charming Jane Louisa 246
114. The Cove Wot Spouts 248
115. I Am One of the Boys [One of the Boys] 249
116. Sailors Ashore 251
117. He Is Only Gone Home with a Friend 252
118. Jayne's Hair Tonic [Dr. Jayne's Hair Tonic] 253
119. Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl 254
120. Lannigan's Ball [Lanigan's Ball] 255
121. The Wild Rover 257
Chapter Thirteen — Lubbers and Swabs:
Miscellaneous Songs and Curiosities 258
122. The Cobbler 259
123. Dick Turpin's Bonny Black Bess (Laws #L-9) 261
124. Dick Turpin and the Lawyer (Laws #L-10) 263
125. Johnny Sands (Laws #Q-3) 264
126. The Farmer's Boy (Laws #Q-30) 266
127. Doran's Ass 268
128. Limerick Races 270
129. The Pearl of the Sea 272
130. Et Tu Bruce 273
131. There's Changes in the Mill 275
132. Go Down Moses [Let My People Go] 276
133. The Parson's Narrative 278
Chapter Fourteen — There She Blows:
Classic Whaling Songs 281
134. The Greenland Whale Fishery (Laws #K-21) 282
135. Arctic Whaling Song 285
136. The Coast of Peru (Laws #D-26) 287
137. Diego's Bold Shores 291
138. There She Blows [The Wounded Whale] 293
139. Blow Ye Winds ['Tis Advertised In Boston] 296
140. The Bold Harpooner [Captain Bunker] 300
141. The Wonderful Whale [Jack and the Whale] 302
142. How to Catch a Whale 304
143. Rolling Down to Old Mohee 306
144. No Ke Ano Ahiahi [Hawaiian Song] 311
Chapter Fifteen — The Whaleman's Lament:
Original Whaling Songs 315
145. One Year in a Blubber Hunter 316
146. The Aurora's Whaling Song 318
147. The Schooner Varnum Hill 319
148. Stanzas from the Mermaid 322
149. On a Passage to the Crozet Islands 323
150. Cape Horn 325
151. Address to Young Sailors 326
152. The Lay System 327
153. Landsmen One and All 328
154. The Whaleman's Lament 329
155. I and Betty Martin 331
156. Indian Ocean Whaling Song 333
157. Bowhead Whaling Song 335
158. All the Whales Are Wild and Ugly 338
159. A Song of the Hatteras Whale 339
160. I Was Once a Sailor Lad 340
Chapter Sixteen — "Plenty of Music":
Two Voyages of the Bark Kathleen 342
161. A Voyage on New Holland 344
162. Song Composed aboard the Bark Kathleen 353
Chapter Seventeen — "Musick on the Brain":
Frederick Howland Smith's Tune List 357
163. Fisher's Hornpipe (O'Neill #1575, 1576) 359
164. The White Cockade (O'Neill #1803) 360
165. Zip Coon [Turkey in the Straw] 361
166. Rory O'More (O'Neill #856) 361
167. Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be? 362
168. Harvest Home Waltz 363
169. Soldier's Joy (O'Neill #1642) 363
170. Pop! Goes the Weasel 364
171. Yankee Doodle 365
172. Russian Waltz 367
173. The Poor Old Slave 367
174. Nelly Gray [Darling Nelly Gray] 369
175. Nelly Bly (Foster) 372
176. Augusta's Favorite 373
177. Oh! Susanna [Susanna] (Foster) 373
178. Fanny Elssler Leaving New Orleans 374
179. Off She Goes (O'Neill #914) 376
180. The Old Leather Breeches (O'Neill #167, 763) 377
181. Home, Sweet Home 378
182. Old Folks at Home [Swanee River] (Foster) 379
Chapter Eighteen — Hurrah For the Sea:
Parlor Songs of Ships and Seafaring 380
183. The Heart that Can Feel for Another 383
184. Bounding Billows, Cease Your Motion 384
185. Lashed to the Helm 385
186. Saturday Night at Sea [The Sailor Boy] 386
187. The Minute Gun at Sea 387
188. Steady She Goes 389
189. True Yankee Sailor [True British Sailor] 390
190. The White Squall 391
191. The Sailor's Consolation [Barney Buntline] 393
192. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 395
193. The Sea [The Sea, the Sea, the Open Sea] 397
194. The Sailor Boy's Last Dream 399
195. Over the Mountain Wave 401
196. Poor Bessy [The Parting] 402
197. The Fisher's Wife [The Fisherman] 403
198. A Life on the Ocean Wave 405
199. The Sailor Boy's Carol 406
200. The Soldier's Tear 407
201. The Sailor's Tear 409
202. Hurrah for the Sea
[A Home on the Mountain Wave] 410
203. Away, Away o'er the Boundless Deep
[The Buccaneer's Bride] 413
204. I'm Afloat, I'm Afloat [The Rover of the Sea] 415
205. The Pirate of the Isles 417
206. The Robbers of the Glen 419
207. Pirates' Chorus (Balfe) 421
208. The Life of a Tar 421
209. Our Way Across the Sea 422
210. Jamie's on the Stormy Sea 423
211. Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea 425
212. Good News from Home 426
Appendix 1
Nature and Nancy: Dibdin's Songs 429
213. The Signal to Engage 430
214. Poor Jack 431
215. Saturday Night at Sea 433
216. Who Cares? 434
217. Nature and Nancy 436
218. The Lass that Loves A Sailor 437
Appendix 2
How Cheery Are the Mariners:
Sailors' Parlor Songs of Seafaring 439
219. The Sailor 440
220. How Cheery Are the Mariners 441
221. On New Year's Day 441
222. The Sailor Is a Wanderer Free 442
223. O Think of the Sailor 442
224. We're Bounding o'er the Dark Blue Sea 443
225. The Sailor on the Ocean Wide 443
226. The Mariner's Song [Gaily We Go] 444
227. A Seaman's Life 444
228. Farewell to the Arctic 445
Appendix 3
The King of the Boundless Sea:
Selected Whaling Poems 446
229. The King of the Southern Sea 447
230. The Sailor Boy's Dream 448

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: GUEST,Gallus Moll
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:16 PM

In Scotland, a chanty is something placed below the bed in lieu of an upstairs lavatory!

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM

Shanties and Sailor Songs / Shantys und Seemannslieder
http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/shantys.html

15 Mann auf des toten Manns Kiste
15 men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
23rd of February, The
A-Cruising We Will Go
A captain bold from Halifax / The Unfortunate Miss Bailey
A dollar a day is a stevedore's pay / A Long Time Ago
A hundred years is a very long time
A is the anchor that holds a bold ship / The Sailor's Alphabet
A! la feuille s'envole, s'envole / Les Filles de la Rochelle
A landlady of France loved an officer, 'tis said / A Drop of Brandy
A life on the ocean wave, a-home on the rolling deep!
A long, long time, and a long time ago / A Long Time Ago LD
A moi forban que m'importe la gloire / Le Forban
A Nantes, à Nantes, vient d'arriver / Brassons Bien Partout Carré
A La Rochelle est arrive / Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez!
A sailor from Dover, from Dover he came / Proud Sally
A schooner was built on the Baltic / Albertina or Skonnert Albertina
A wet sheet and a flowing sea
A Yankee ship comes down the river / Blow, Bullies, Blow LD
Abel Brown, the Sailor
Abdul Abulbul Amir
Abschied
Ach, was ist doch ein Schifferleben / Das Schifferleben
Across the Western Ocean CAP
Adieu, cher camarade, adieu, faut nous quitter
Adieu my fair young maidens / The Holy Ground
Adieu, Recouvrance
Adieu sweet lovely Nancy Ten Thousand times adieu
Adjö, farväl min hulda, kära flicka / Sjömansvisa
Admiral Benbow
Al twintig jaar vaar ik op de zoute plas / De zoute plas
Alabama
Alabama John Cherokee
Albertina
All For Me Grog
All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest
All things we have ready and nothing we want / Lustily, Lustily
Alle die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt gehen
Alle segeln nach dem norden / Walfanglied
Allez les marins, encor' un p'tit verre
Allons à Messine
Aloha ohe
Als ich an einem Sommertag
Als ich stand auf hohem Berge / Die Seemannsbraut
Als nach Japon weit entlegen / Xaver
Am Indiastrande
Amphitrite, The
An der Nordseeküste
Anchors Aweigh
And he kissed her on the face / Baltimore Shanty
And it's three score and ten / Three Score and Ten
Andrew Rose, the British sailor
Another of Seafarers, describing Evil Fortune
Antje, mein blondes Kind
Après sept années de guerre / Guerre, Guerre, Vent Devant
Around Cape Horn we've got to go
Arranmore Boat Song, The
As I rov'd out one ev'ning fair / The Dark-Eyed Sailor
As I strolled out one evening / The Fire Ship
As I walked down the Broadway / New York Girls
As I was a-walkin' upon a fine day / Little Mohee or Indian Lass
As I was walkin' down London Street / Paddy West
As I was a-walking down Wapping / Ratcliffe Highway
As I went a walking one evening so rare / Fiddler's Green
As I went out one evening / One of the Roamin' Kind
As ick jung an Johren wär / Südsee-Lied
As it fell on a holy day / John Dory
As-tu connu le père Winslow
At the dawn of the morning
Auf dem Atlantik, auf dem weiten Meer / Lili Marleen zur See
Auf den Wellen
Auf der Reeperbahn
Auf einem Seemannsgrab
Auf, grüner Jung, reck deine Glieder
Auf Matrosen, die Anker gelichtet
Away and to the westward / Hills of Isle au Haut
Away, haul away, O, haul away together / Haul Away, Joe LD
Away, Rio!

Balena, The
Ballad of Captain Kidd, The
Baltimore Shanty
Banks of Brandywine, The
Banks of Newfoundland, The
Banks of Sacramento, The CAP
Banks of Sweet Loch Ray, The
Banks of the Nile
Bark Gay Head, The
Barnacle Bill
Barrett's Privateers
Bay of Biscay, Oh!, The
Behold upon the swelling seas / A-Cruising We Will Go
Bell Bottom Trousers
Ben Backstay was our boatswain
Bigler, The
Black Ball Line, The
Black Susie
Blackbird
Blaue Nacht, oh blaue Nacht am Hafen
Blow, boys, blow
Blow, Bullies, Blow
Blow the Wind Westerly
Blow, Ye Winds
Bold Dighton
Bold Princess Royal, The
Bold Riley
Boney was a warrior
Bonnie Ship the Diamond, The
Boston Harbor
Botany Bay
Brassons Bien Partout Carré
Brave marin revient de guerre
British Man O' War
Brother Noah, Brother Noah
Bully in the Alley
Buvons un coup, buvons en deux / Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août
Bye-bye, my Roseanna

Can't You Dance the Polka?
Cape Cod girls they have no combs
C'est dans la cale qu'on met les rats / Le Port de Tacoma
C'est en passant sur l'pont d'Morlaix / Le Pont de Morlaix
C'est Jean-François de Nantes / Jean-François de Nantes
Ce sont les filles de Lorient, joli / Les filles de Lorient
Ce sont les gars de Senneville / Les gars de Senneville
Chanson À Virer
Chantons pour passer le temps
Cheerily Man
Chivalrous Shark, The
Clear the Track
Coal Black Rose
Codfish Shanty
Come all my jolly seamen, likewise you landsmen too / The Cumberland and the Merrimac
Come all ye jolly sailors brave / The Amphitrite
Come all ye seamen bold, and draw near / Admiral Benbow
Come all ye young fellow that follow the sea / The Black Ball Line
Come all ye young men of learning / Botany Bay
Come all you bold fishermen / Song of the Fishes
Come all you bold heroes that plough the rough main / Bold Dighton
Come all you dry land sailors and listen to me song / The Good Ship Calibar
Come all you true-born Shanty boys / Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock
Come all you young Americans / The Bark Gay Head
Come all you warlike seamen / Warlike Seamen
Come cheer up my lads, it's to glory we steer / Heart of Oak
Come, messmates, pass the bottle 'round / Farewell To Grogg
Common Sailors
Congo River
Constitution and the Guerrière, The
Cumberland and the Merrimac, The
Curaçao, 'k heb jou zo menigmaal bekeken

Daar was laatst een meisje loos
Daeth diwrnod i ffarwelio / Rownd yr Horn
Damals, vor unendlich langer Zeit / An der Nordseeküste
Dans la côte à la nuit tombée / Mon p'tit Garçon
Dans le port il est arrivé
Dans mon sac de matelot / l'Harmonica
Dark-Eyed Sailor, The
Das England Lied
Das ist was für Fietje
Das kann doch einen Seemann icht erschüttern
Das Schiff im Hafen
Das Schifflein
Das Schifferleben
Dat Lögenleed
De Beste en maar braafste matroos aan boord / Kleine Theodoor
De blaue Flagge weiht
De fülwern Flott
De grote Buer, de Herr vun't Land
De Hamborger Veermaster
De Hoffnung weer hunnert Dag unnerwegs
De lustige Kock
De Noorsche Vullrigger
De oole Schipper un sin Söhn
De Runner von Hamborg
De schipper en de Jonkman
De see geiht hoch, de Wind de blast! / De Runner von Hamborg
De Vrouw van Schipper Ké
De zoute plas
Dead Horse, The
Deep Blue Sea
Den stolte Skute seiler
Der alte Seebär Fietje / Das ist was für Fietje
Der erfrorene Matrose
Der mächtigste König im Luftrevier / U-Boot Lied (Song)
Der Schiffer auf dem blanken Rhein
Der Störtebecker ist unser Herr
Der Tag war grau, der Tag war schwer
Der Whisky ist des Seemanns Trost / Whisky
Deutsche Flotte durch die Meere / Deutschlands Flotte
Deutsches Flaggenlied
Deutschlands Flotte
Des Kaisers Admiral
Die Bank von Sacramento
Die Gitarre und das Meer
Die hohen Masten und der schlanke Bug / Gorch Fock Lied
Die Islandfischer
Die Kneipe am Moor
Die Reise nach Jütland (2nd version)
Die Seemannsbraut
Dis is de day we make our pay-day / Gimme de Banjo
Dogger Bank, The
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea / The Grey Funnel Line
Dor weer eenmal een ohlen Kasten
Dreadnought, The
Drop of Brandy-O, A

Ebenezer, The
Eddystone Light, The
Edmund Fitzgerald, The
Ei oh, faat em an, so
Ein kleiner Junge steht stundenlang am Hafen / Ewige Sehnsucht
Ein Schärenmädchen bin ich ja
Ein Schiff im Hafen am Bollwerk lag / Das Schiff im Hafen
Ein Schifflein sah ich fahren
Ein Schifflein ziehet leise / Das Schifflein
Ein Wind weht von Süd und zieht mich hinaus auf See / La Paloma
Eine Seefahrt, die ist lustig
Einmal noch nach Bombay
Einst stieg ein Mädel wohl in ein Schiff
Ellen Vannen Tragedy
En quittant Brest et Recouvrance / Adieu, Recouvrance
En sjöman älskar havets vaag
En toen was er dat kind
Encor'et hop et vire / Chanson À Virer
Erie Canal, The
Es fuhr ein Matrose wohl über das Meer
Es geht in den dünen ein ruhloser Sand
Es hat der Herr auf Erden
Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen
Es lag ein Schiff fern an dem Indiastrande / Am Indiastrande
Es löscht das Meer die Sonne aus
Es murmeln die Wellen, sanft säuselt der Wind / Auf den Wellen
Es nahet im Brausen auf hohem Meer / Germania zur See
Es rufen uns die freien Wogen
Es weht der Wind mit Stärke zehn
Es wohnt ein Müller an jenem Teich
Essiquibo River is the King of rivers all
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Ewige Sehnsucht

Faithful Sailor Boy, The
Falado, o Falado
Farewell and adieu to you / Spanish Ladies
Farewell, my dearest Nancy / Banks of the Nile
Farewell To Grogg
Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill
Farewell to you, my own true love / The Leaving of Liverpool
Female Smuggler, The
Feuer in der Küche / Füer down below!
Fiddler's Green
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Fire Down Below
Fire Maringo
Fire Ship, The
Flash Frigate, The
Flying Cloud, The
Flying P-Line
For once I joined a Liverpool ship / Black Susie
Frei ist das Meer und die Eisberge fliehn / Wickingerlied
Friesenleed
From Boston harbor we set sail / Boston Harbor
From Liverpool to 'Frisco a-rovin' I went / The Liverpool Judies
From the Halls of Montezuma / Marine Hymn
Füer down below!
Full many a sailor points with pride

Gammal purrvisa
General Taylor gained the day
Germania zur See
Gimme de Banjo
Girl I Left Behind Me, The
Go To Sea No More
Golden Vanity, The
Goleu Enlli
Good night, ladies!
Good Ship Calibar, The
Goodbye, Fare You Well
Goodbye my feleni, o le a ou lea / Samoa Song
Gorch Fock Lied
Gott mit uns, und wir mit Gott
Greenland Whale Fisheries
Grey Funnel Line, The
Guerre, Guerre, Vent Devant
Gwynt o'r de a'r glaw yn fan / Goleu Enlli

Haal'em maar mee
Hafenunterricht
Hamburg, du schöne Stadt
Handsome Cabin Boy, The
Hanging Johnny LD
Hardi, les gars, vire au guindeau
Haul Away, Joe LD
Haul on the bo'lin', the fore and maintop bo'lin' / Haul on the Bowline
Have you heard of a ship called the good / Reuben James
Have you heard the news, my Johnny / One More Day
He Kapitein we nemen nog een borrel
Heart of Oak
Heave away me bully boys / Round the Bay of Mexico
Hebbt ji den noorschen Vullrigger sehn? / De Noorsche Vullrigger
Hebbt ji von de sülwern Flott woll all hört / De fülwern Flott
Heia hebei, hebei, heia / Lied der Elb-Schiffstrecker
Heidewitzka, Herr Kapitän
Heimweh nach Sankt Pauli
Hem till Justina, hem till de mina / Sjömansfaang
Henry Martin
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowline / Tom Bowline
Here's adieu sweet lovely Nancy
Heurt mol to all', Kinnerslüd / So'n ganz lütt beten Backbord
Heut' lief ein Schiff in den Hafen
Heute an Bord, morgen gehts fort
Heute nacht verläßt mein Schiff den Hafen / Aloha ohe
Heute wollen wir ein Liedchen singen
High Barbary, The
Highland Laddie
Hills of Isle au Haut
Hilo, Johnny Brown
HMS Hood, The
Hog-Eye Man, The
Holder Jüngling, willst du fliehen / Abschied
Holy Ground, The
Homeward Bound
Hör, Söhn, hier hest du min Kalljoot / De oole Schipper un sin Söhn
Hourra les filles à dix deniers
How can my poor heart be glad / On The Seas And Far Away
How pleasant a sailor's life passes / Why Should We Quarrel For Riches

I am a brisk and sprightly lad
I am as poor a distressed maid / The Banks of Sweet Loch Ray
I am a young sailor, my story is sad / Blackbird
I came down to Bowery one evening in July / Can't You Dance the Polka?
I come from Salem City
I dreamed my love came in my sleep / Lowlands
I heard, I heard, the old man say / John Kanaka
I neber see de like since I been born / Johnny Come Down to Hilo
I Popped Out
I shipped on board of th' Ebenezer / The Ebenezer
I sing of a frigate, a frigate of fame / The Flash Frigate
I used to be a sailor, I sailed upon the sea / I Popped Out
I was broke and out of a job / Paddy Get Back
Im Wald bin i gsessn, und is Herz war mir schwer
Ich ging einmal die Straße lang / Die Bank von Sacramento
Ich hab' ein Schiff gesehen / St. Niklas war ein Seemann
Ich heff mol een Hamborger Veermaster sehn / De Hamborger Veermaster
Ich will Euch die Story berichten / Rum aus Jamaika
Ich will nicht länger traurig sein / Sehnsucht
Ick gung eenstmol von Hamborg ut
If you want to join a merchant ship / Lime Juice Ship
Ik keem vun de Reis'
Ik kwam lest over een berg gegaan
Ik moest van vader naar de zee / Haal'em maar mee
Il était deux amants / Allons à Messine
Il était un petit navire / Le petit navire
Im englischen Kanale, da segelte 'ne Brigg / Seemannsweise
I'm the man before the mast / Common Sailors
In Amerstdam there dwells a maid / Maid of Amsterdam
In Callao there lives a gal whose name is Serafina / Serafina
In der Heimat an der Waterkant / Nimm uns mit Kapitän
In eighteen-hundred and sixty-one / Roll, Alabama, Roll
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two / Christofo Columbo
In Hamborg geiht dat lustig her / Dat Lögenleed
In Hamburg, da bin ich gewesen
In Johnny's Kneipe bei Bier und Pfeife
In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun / Sink The Bismark
In Praise of Seafaring Men, in Hope of Good Fortune
In South Australia I was born / South Australia
Indian Lass
Irgendwo in fremden Land
It was down in yonder meadow / British Man O' War
It was early, early all in the Spring / My Boy Willie
It was Friday morn when we set sail / The Mermaid
It was in the year of forty-four / The Whale
It ofttimes has been told / The Constitution and the Guerrière
It's a damned tough life, full of toil and strife / Rolling Down to Old Maui
It's of a pretty fair maid / The Handsome Cabin Boy
It's our time to go now / Sailors Farewell Hymn
Ivan Skavinsky Skavar

Ja, ja, ja
Jack the Guinea Pig
Jackie Brown
Jean-François de Nantes
Jimmy Braun, das war ein Seemann / Die Gitarre und das Meer
John Cherokee was an Indian man / Alabama John Cherokee
John Dory
Johnny Boker SD
Johnny Come Down to Hilo
John Kanaka
Juchhei lustig, seggt he, ick bün Kock, seggt he / De lustige Kock

Kaiser und Admiral heimwärts und überall
Kameraden auf See
Kameraden, wann seh'n wir uns wieder / Die Kneipe am Moor
Käpt'n Kidd
Kari waits for me
Klaus Störtebecker ist unser Herr
Kleine Theodoor

L'ame de nos marins / L'âme Des Marins
La belle se promène, au fond de son jardin / Sur les bords de la Loire
La Paloma
Le Capitaine de Saint-Malo
Le corsaire "Le Grand Coureur" / Le Grand Coureur
Le Forban
Le Grand Coureur
Le Harmonica
Le Marinier de Couëron
Le petit navire
Le Pont de Morlaix
Le Port de Tacoma
Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août
Leaving of Liverpool, The
Leise kommt die Nacht
Les Corsaires
Les Filles de la Rochelle
Les filles de Lorient
Les gars de Senneville
Les marins de notre ville
Let The Bulgine Run
Les Trois Caps
Lied der Elb-Schiffstrecker
Lift him up and carry him along / Fire Maringo
Lili Marleen zur See
Lime Juice Ship
Lisbon
Little Mohee
Liverpool Judies, The
Long Time Ago, A LD
Loss of the U.S. Sloop of War Hornet!!!
Lowlands
Lustig auf den blauen Wogen / Seemannsbegräbnis
Lustily, Lustily

Mädel, kannst du küßen? / Schön ist die Liebe im Hafen
Magelhann
Maggie May
Maid of Amsterdam
Marine Hymn
Matelot le vent est bon / Satanicles
Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light / The Eddystone Light
Mein Liebster ist der Hochbootsmann / Schwedisches Schifferlied
Melbourne girls, they have no combs / Codfish Shanty
Mermaid, The
Mien Naam weer Käpt'n Kidd / Käpt'n Kidd
Mon p'tit Garçon
My boat's by the tower / Pirate Song
My Bonny is over the ocean
My Boy Willie
My Johnny is a shoemaker
My name is Arthur Hollandin, as you may understand / The Flying Cloud
My name was William Kidd / The Ballad of Captain Kidd

Nancy Lee
New York Girls
Nimm uns mit Kapitän
Nobleman's Daughter, The
Norfolk Girls, The
Nous irons à Valparaiso
Now coil up your nonsense / Charge the Can Cheerily
Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town / Quare Bungle Rye
Now the Chesapeake so bold / The Shannon and the Chesapeake
Now you jolly sailor lads, come listen to my tale / Maggie May

O, a drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm / Roll the Old Chariot Along
O across the west'ard I served my time / Roll the Cotton Down
O Aegir, Herr der Fluten / Sang an Aegir
O, as I walked down the Landing Stage / We're All Bound to Go
O! blow, my boys, I long to hear you! / Blow, boys, blow
O, Boston's a fine town, with ships in the bay / Home, Dearie, Home
O bury me not in the deep deep sea / The Ocean Burial
O, come, list' awhile, and you soon shall hear / The Female Smuggler
O, do, my Johnny Boker / Johnny Boker
O, fare you well, I wish you well! / Goodbye, Fare You Well
O fare you well, my own true love / Ten Thousand Miles
O! go fetch me down my riding cane / The Hog-Eye Man
O, I'm going to leave her / Shallow Brown
O, in eighteen hundred and forty-one / Paddy Works on the Railway CAP
O lenke durch die Welle, Fidelin! / O, pescator dell'onde
O, me Rosie, coal black rose / Coal Black Rose
O mit mein niggerum beggerum stinkum / Ja, ja, ja
O! my boat can swiftly float / The Queen of Connemara
O Nancy Dawson, Hio! / Cheerily Man
O, pescator dell'onde
O, poor old Reuben Ranzo / Reuben Ranzo LD
O, Sally Brown, of New York City / Sally Brown
O, Santa Anna fought for fame / The Plains of Mexico or Santa Anna
O Schipmann!
O, Shenandoah, I long to hear you / Shenandoah
O, Stormy's gone, that good old man / Stormalong
O! The smartest packet ye can find / Clear the Track
O, the times are hard and the wages low / Across the Western Ocean
O, the work was hard and the wages low / Time to Leave Her
O the year was 1778 / Barrett's Privateers
O there was a lofty ship and a lofty ship was she / The Golden Vanity
O, Tommy's gone, what shall I do / Tommy's Gone to Hilo
O was you ever on the Congo River / Congo River
O, we're going on board the Roseabella / The Roseabella
Oh, where am I goin' to sleep tonight / Abel Brown, the Sailor
O, whiskey is the life of man / Whiskey for My Johnny
Ob Sturm uns bedroht hoch vom Norden / Auf einem Seemannsgrab
Ocean Burial, The
Of all the wives as e'er you know / Nancy Lee
On the fourteenth of February we sailed from the land / The Bold Princess Royal
On the noble fleet of whalers out sailing from Dundee / The Balena
On The Seas And Far Away
On the Sunday morning, just at the hour of ten / The Bigler
One More Day
One morning very early / The Banks of Brandywine
One of the Roamin' Kind
Op wieringen daar woonde / De Vrouw van Schipper Ké
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are all set / Bold Riley
Our topsails reef'd and filled away / The Norfolk Girls

Paddy Doyle
Paddy Get Back
Paddy West
Paddy Works on the Railway
Passant par Paris, vidant la bouteille
Pauvre Marinier
Pirate Song
Pirates
Pipe all hands to man the windlass / Rolling Home
Plains of Mexico, The CAP
Pleasant And Delightful
Poor Joe, the marine, was at Portsmouth well known / Poor Joe the Marine
Proud Sally

Quand je suis parti de La Rochelle
Quare Bungle Rye
Queen of Connemara, The
Qui les trois caps a passé / Les Trois Caps
Quinze marins sur l'bahut du mort

Ratcliffe Highway
Reise, Reise
Rejs opp en man av den babordska vakten! / Gammal purrvisa
Reuben James
Reuben Ranzo
Rio Grande
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Roll the Cotton Down
Roll the Old Chariot Along
Roll the Woodpile Down
Rolling Down to Old Maui
Rolling Home
Rolling Home
Roseabella, The
Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez!
Round the Bay of Mexico
Rownd yr Horn
Rum aus Jamaika

Saill! home, as straight as an arrow / White Wings
Sailing, Sailing
Sailing over the Dogger Bank / The Dogger Bank
Sailor Likes His Bottle, The
Sailor's Alphabet, The
Sailor's Farewell, The
Sailor's Farewell Hymn
Sailor's Prayer
Saint Nazaire
Sankt Niklas war ein Seemann
Sally Brown
Sally, she'm the gal that I love dearly / Hilo, Johnny Brown
Samoa Song
Sang an Aegir
Santa Anna
Santa Lucia
Satanicles
Schärenmädchen
Schiffchen in die Weite willst du zieh'n
Schifferabend
Schifferlied
Schipper ik wil varen schipper ik wil mee / De schipper en de Jonkman
Schon glänzt das Mondenlicht am Himmelsbogen / Santa Lucia
Schön ist die Liebe im Hafen
Schon viele Male fuhr ich um die Erde rum / Heimweh nach Sankt Pauli
Schönster Jüngling willst Du ziehen
Schwedisches Schifferlied
Schwer mit den Schätzen des Orients beladen
Seemann, deine Heimat ist das Meer
Seemannsbegräbnis
Seemannsweise
Sehnsucht
Serafina
Shallow Brown
Shannon and the Chesapeake, The
Shenandoah
Shoals Of Herring, The
Silbern klingt und springt die Heuer / Auf der Reeperbahn
Sing and heave, and heave and sing / The Banks of Sacramento
Sing ho! for a brave an' a gallant ship / Ten Thousand Miles Away
Singing bell bottom trousers / Bell Bottom Trousers
Sink The Bismark
Sir Richard Grenville's Farewell
Sitt de See-lüd obens mol / Un denn segelt wi so langsam rund Kap Horn
Sjömansfaang
Sjömansvisa
Skonnert Albertina
Snaefell Tynwald, Ben-my-Chree / Ellen Vannen Tragedy
So‚ help me Bob, I'm bully in the alley / Bully in the Alley
So'n ganz lütt beten Backbord
Song of the Fishes
Sont des hommes de grand courage / Les Corsaires
South Australia
Spanish Ladies
Stand Navy down the field / Anchors Aweigh
Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak
Stately Southerner
Stolz weht die Flagge Schwarz-Weiß-Rot / Deutsches Flaggenlied
Stormalong
Stormy Weather Boys
Strike the Bell
Südsee-Lied
Sur les bords de la Loire

Ten Thousand Miles
Ten Thousand Miles Away
The anchor is weighed, and the sails they are set / Away, Rio!
The boats are sailing around the bend / Bye-bye, my Roseanna
The breeze was fresh, the ship was in stays / The Token
The dames of France are fond and free / The Girl I Left Behind Me
The day that I left my home for the rolling sea / La Paloma
The Diamond is a ship me lads / The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / The Edmund Fitzgerald
The Mate was drunk, and he went below / The Sailor Likes His Bottle, Oh
The most chivalrous fish in the ocean / The Chivalrous Shark
The Pilot he looks out ahead / Whup Jamboree
The Pilot he looks out ahead / Whup Jamboree, American
The sea is England's glory!
The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold / Abdul Abulbul Amir / Ivan Skavinsky Skavar
The topman and the afterguard were walking one day / Topman and the Afterguard
There is fire in the lower hold / Fire Down Below
There were three brothers in merry Scotland / Henry Martin
There were two lofty ships / The High Barbary
There's a flash packet, a flash packet of fame / The Dreadnought
They call me Hanging Johnny / Hanging Johnny LD
They say old man your horse will die / The Dead Horse LD
This dirty town has been my home / Sailor's Prayer
Three Score and Ten
Time to Leave Her
'Tis advertised in Boston / Blow, Ye Winds
'Tis of a Nobleman's daughter / The Nobleman's Daughter
'Tis of a stately Southerner who flew the Stripes and Stars / Stately Southerner
To my, Aye, and we'll furl / Paddy Doyle SD
To Pensacola town we'll bid adieu / Homeward Bound
Token, The
Tom Bowline
Tommy's Gone to Hilo
Topman and the Afterguard
Trois matelots du port de Brest
'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty-three / Greenland Whale Fisheries
'Twas on a dark and stormy night / The Faithful Sailor Boy
'Twas on a Monday morning, all in the month of May / Lisbon
Twas pleasant and delightful one midsummer's morn / Pleasant And Delightful

U-Boat Lied (Song)
Und denn segelt wi so langsam rund Kap Horn
Und ob der Sturm auch manche nacht
Unfortunate Miss Bailey, The
Unsern Bootsman de sie Kruutsack
Up aloft amid the rigging / Rolling Home
Up jumps a crab with his crooked legs / Blow the Wind Westerly
Up on the poop deck and walking about / Strike the Bell

Viele Leut' vom Binnenlande kennen einen Hafen nicht / Hafenunterricht
Vinden drar, skeppet far
Voici mon navire qui nage / Pauvre Marinier
Vous soupirez les filles / Saint Nazaire
Vun Hamborg fohr so 'n ollen Kasten

Walfanglied
War einst ein junger Bootsmann
Warlike Seamen
Was macht man mit 'nem betrunk'nen Seemann?
Was you ever in Quebec / Highland Laddie
Was you ever in Rio Grande? / Rio Grande
Way down south where the cocks do crow / Roll the Woodpile Down
We Be Three Poor Mariners
Well it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog / All For Me Grog
Wenn bei Sturm und Wetterlicht / Wo es Mädels gibt, Kameraden
We were forty miles from Albany / The Erie Canal
We're All Bound to Go
We're laying in Surrey Dock one day / Stormy Weather Boys
Wer entert als Cadett zur See / Des Kaisers Admiral
Wer geht mit, juchhe, über See?
Wer will mit uns nach Island gehn / Die Islandfischer
West Zuid-West van Ameland
Whale, The
What pen can well report the plight / Another of Seafarers, describing Evil Fortune
What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
When first I landed in Frisco Bay / Go To Sea No More
When HMS Hood went down in the deep / The HMS Hood
When I first landed in Liverpool / Jackie Brown
When I was a lad I served a term
When the Alabama's keel was laid / Alabama
When the anchor's weigh'd / Jack the Guinea Pig
Whiskey for My Johnny
Whisky LD
White Wings
Who seeks the way to win renown / Sir Richard Grenville's Farewell
Who'll make his mark the Captain cried / Pirates
Who's that knocking at my door? / Barnacle Bill
Whup Jamboree, English
Whup Jamboree, American
Why Should We Quarrel For Riches
Wi fohrt bi de Flying P-Line / Flying P-Line
Wickingerlied
Wie mit grimmgem Unverstand
Wie wil er mee naar Wieringen varen / Wieringen
Wiegende Wellen auf wogender See
Wieringen
Wildes, schäumendes, brausendes Meer / Wiegt mich ihr Wogen
Wir fahren übers weite Meer
Wir lagen vor Madagaskar
Wir lieben die Stürme, die brausende Wogen
Wir sind Kameraden auf See / Kameraden auf See
With our nets and gear we're faring / The Shoals Of Herring
With swelling sail, away, away! / The Arranmore Boat Song
Wo die Nordseewellen
Wo es Mädels gibt, Kameraden

Xaver

Y avait un' fois un marinier / Le Marinier de Couëron
Y'heave ho! My lads, the wind blows free / Sailing, Sailing
Ye gentlemen of England who live home / The Bay of Biscay, Oh!
Ye mariners all, as ye pass by
Ye Parliament of England, You Lords and Commons
Ye seamen and ye landsmen all / Loss of the U.S. Sloop of War Hornet!!!
Yo no digo que mi barca se a
You bully boys of Liverpool / The Banks of Newfoundland
Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock

Zondagmorgen kregen we de loods aan boord
Zu Kiautschau um Mitternacht
Zum Geburtstage Sr. Hoheit, des Prinzen Heinrich von Preußen
Zum Meere zog der Zollernsproß

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:28 AM

Joe-

It is wonderful that so many reference books like THE MUSIC OF THE WATERS are now available on-line, and searchable as such.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 12:12 AM

And for those of us who don't have the shelf space, The Music of the Waters is available online - and at Google Books.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 09:20 AM

Another classic for any armchair sailor would be THE MUSIC OF THE WATERS: a Collection of the Sailors Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations, by Laura A. Smith, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, UK, © 1888.

My copy cost $50 but it's well worth the price as the earliest comprehensive study of traditional sea songs.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 06:37 AM

A Book of Shanties, Smith, C. Fox,   Methuen & Co., London, 1927.
A Sailor's Garland, Masefield, John, BiblioLife, Charlestown, 2010..
Boxing the Compass, Palmer, Roy, Yorkshire, Herron, 2001.
Capstan Bars, Bone, David, W Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932.
Chanteying Aboard American Ships, Harlow, F.P.,   Mystic Seaport, 2004.
Everyman's book of sea songs, Baker & Miall,   J.M. Dent, 1982.
Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, Healy, James N. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967
Naval Songs, Pond, William A. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints.
Naval Songs And Ballads, Firth, C.H., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991.
Pipe All Hands, Zabriskie, Geo. A., "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, 1938
"Sailors Chanties", Hutchison, P. A., 1906, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 19, no. 72, Mar. 1906, pp. 16-28.
Sailors Songs or 'Chanties', Davis, Frederick J. & Ferris Tozer. Boosey & Co., Ltd., London, 3rd. Ed. 1906
Salt Sea Ballads, Terry, Richard R., J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London, 1931
Sea Songs And Ballads from Nineteeth Century Nova Scotia, Fowke, Edith, 1981
Sea songs and shanties, Whall, W. B., Glasgow, J. Brown & son, 1920.
Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Mystic Seaport , 1994. (abridged)
Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961
Songs of American sailormen, Colcord, Joanna Carver, New York, W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1938.
Songs of Sea Labour (Chanties), Bullen, Frank, & W.F. Arnold,. London: Swan & Co. 1914.
Songs Of The Sea & Sailors' Chanteys, Frothingham, Robert, Houghton Mifflin Co, Cambridge, 1924.
Songs The Whalemen Sang, Huntington, Gale, Mystic Seaport, 2005.
The Seven Seas Shanty Book, Sampson, John , Boosey & Co., London, 1927.
The Way of the Ship: Shanties and Shantymen, Terry, Richard Runciman,   Fireship Press, Tucson, 2008.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:34 PM

Just located a copy of Davis & Tozer in NZ. $275! WOW!

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: JWB
Date: 14 May 10 - 10:45 AM

Here is an excerpt from Terry's notes to The Lion Man-o'-war:

"A version of the words appears in Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads. The melody and two verses are quoted in L.A. Smith's The Music of the Waters. I do not think it has appeared in print before, with words and music complete."

Jerry

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: JWB
Date: 13 May 10 - 03:29 PM

Guest Sam,

In Terry's Salt Sea Ballads the song "The Lion man-o'-war" has 6 verses. They are a variant of the song I know as "Warlike Seamen", which is in the Copper Family's repertoire. The melody Terry gives is not very close to the Coopers's tune.

Here's Terry's version:

We hadn't sailed twenty or thirty miles from shore,
Before we spied a large ship and down on us she bore.
She hailèd us in French, my boys, and askèd whence we came.
"We've just come round from Plymouth Sound, and the Lion is our name."

"Are you the Lion man-o'-war, as we suppose you be?"
"We are the Lion man-o'-war as you shall quickly see."
"Then haul your colours from the mast and come along with me,
Or we'll sink the Lion man-o'-war to the bottom of the sea."

Then up and spoke our captain and unto us did say
"Cheer up, cheer up, my merry men, we'll show them British play;
If this had been mine own brothèr the battle should have been tried;
Let every man stand true to his gun, and we'll give them a broadside."

The broadside was given, my boys, which made them all to wonder,
To see their fore-to'-gallant mast come bowling down like thunder.
We beat them from their quarters, no longer could they stay,
And the red hot shot poured in so hot, as we showed them British play.

"Oh now I plainly see you are a vessel of renown;
My ports are all knocked into one and I'll haul my colours down,
And my good sword I'll give to you, and we must go ashore,
And in the prison we will stay, and go to France no more."

So this large ship was taken, in Plymouth Sound 'twas moored;
We drank success and liberty to all that live on shore,
And hauling down the French colours, to hoist the red, white and blue,
We'll drink success unto the Lion and all her jolly crew.


Jerry

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Sam W
Date: 09 May 10 - 06:59 PM

Hi JWB, I dont suppose you could tell me if your version of the version of The Lion man-o'-war in the book has more than 2 verses? I only have two and would be interested to know if there is a third

Cheers

Sam

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 May 10 - 08:33 PM

shipcmo sent me his Sea Songs Index, indexed by song title. It's quite a piece of work. Use [CTRL-F] to find songs.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: JWB
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:52 PM

Salt Sea Ballads
Richard R. Terry
J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London, 1931

Collected and edited, with Pianoforte Accompaniment, by Richard Runciman Terry, with a Foreword by Morley Roberts.

Admiral Benbow
Andrew Carr
Antigallican Privateer, The
Blaw the wind southerly
Bobby Shafty
Bosun's Warning, The
Cawsand Bay
Chesapeake and Shannon, The
Chinee Bumboatman, The
Cruise of the Calabar, The
Don't forget your old shipmate
Doo me ama day
From Boston Harbour
Golden Vanitee, The
Here's the tender comin'
High Barbaree
Hob-a-derry dando
Homeward bound
I drew my ship into a harbour
John Dory
Liberty for the sailors
Lion man-o'-war, The
Ma bonny lad
Rolling home
Saucy Arethusa, The
Spanish ladies
Time for us to go
When the boat comes in
When the stormy winds do blow

I obtained this book through interlibrary loan and now have a photocopy of it. Terry was from Northumberland, and this collection contains 10 songs from that region; he states in his introduction: "I have obtained them either aboard ship or from the mouths of seamen ashore."

For those 'Catters who might travel to Mystic, CT, for the 31st annual Sea Music Festival, I'll be presenting a paper at the Sea Music Symposium on Friday, June 11, tracing the history of one of the songs in Terry's book.

Shipcmo, where have you been all my life? And what are the hours your library is open?

Jerry

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 18 Apr 10 - 06:50 PM

Everyman's book of sea songs, Baker & Miall,   J.M. Dent, 1982.

Anchored
Anchor's Weigh'd , The
A-Roving
Asleep In The Deep
Bay Of Biscay, The
Benbow, The Brother Tar's Song
Black-Eyed Susan
Blow the Man Down
Blow The Wind Southerly
Bobby Shaftoe
Bristol City
Britons, Strike Home!
Clear De Track!
Constitution And The Guerriere, The
Crossing The Bar
Deathh Of Nelson, The
Drunken Sailor, The
Fire Down Below
Girls Around Cape Horn, The
Golden Vanity, The
Haul Away, Joe!
Haul The Bowlin'!
Heart Of Oak
High Barbaree
Invincable Armado, The
Johnny Come Down To Hilo
Lass Thar Loves A Sailor, The
Lifeboat Crew, The
Life On The Ocean Wave, A
Mermaid, The
Mobile Bay
Nancy Lee
Over The Harbor Bar
Pilot, The
Poor Joe, The Marine
Pull For The Shore
Rio Grande, The
Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep
Rule Brirannia
Sailor's Complaint, The
Saucy Arethusa, The
Saved From The Storm
Sea is England's Glory, The
Shenandoah
Ship I Love, The
Spanish Ladies
Stand To Your Guns!
Stormalong
Tight Little Island, The
To All You Ladies Now On Land
Tom Bowling
Tom's Gone To Hilo
True English Sailor, The
We Be Three Poor Mariners
When The Boat Comes In
Whisky Johnny
White Squall, The
Will Watch
Wreck Of The Hesperus
You Gentleman Of England.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 11:57 AM

Re 25 Jun 07 post
Naval Songs And Ballads, Firth, C.H., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991.

One of the indexes at the back of the book is as follows:
TUNES MENTIONED
Admiral Benbow
Admiral Byng and brave West
Admiral Keppel Triumphant
A Fig for France and Holland too
A hunting we will go
Aim not too high
An Orange
Arethusa
Awake, oh my Cloris
Banstead Downs
Brave Vernon's Triumph
Cannons rore
Captain Death
Captain Ward
Cawsand Bay
Chevy Chase
Come and Listen to my Ditty
Coming Down
Death of Admiral Benbow
Digby's Farewell
Down by a Crystal River side
Dub a Dub, or, the Seaman's Tantara ra
Duke of Lorain and the Princess Royal
Every Man Keep his own Room
Five Sail of Frigats bound for Malago
Fond boy
Glorious Charles of Sweden
Gossip Joan
Hearts of Oak
Hey! For the honour of Old England
Hey Ho, my Hony
I am a Jovial Batchelor
I often for my Jenny strove
I prethee Love turn to me
I was, d'ye see, a Waterman
Iantha
Ianthe,
I'le go to Sir Richard
In the merry month of June
John Dory
John Duke of Marlborough
Ladies of London
Let Caesar Live long
Let the soldiers rejoice
Let us drink and sing, and merrily troul the bowl
Monsieur Ragou, or the Dancing Hobby horses
Mounseers Almaigne
O so ungrateful a creature
Our Noble King in his progress
Packington' Pound
Round about the Hollow Tree
Russel's Farewell
Sail before the mast
Shannon and Chesapeake
Tars of the Blanche
The Dancing Hobby horses, v. Monsieur Ragou
The Husky Night
The Jovial Cobbler
The King's going to Bulloign
The Landlady of France
The Lillies of France
The Poor Benjamin
The Ring of Gold
The Seaman's Tantara ra, v. Dub a Dub
The Spinning Wheel
The stormy winds do blow
The Two English Travellers
The Vicar of Bray
Thursday in the morn
To all you ladies now at land
We'll go no more to Greenland
When this old Cap was New
Which nobody can deny

From the NOTES
   P. 328. Cawsand Bay. Version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton, who writes: 'It was brought into vouge about fifty years ago by a dear friend and brother officer of mine, Richard Creagh Saunders, then Naval Instructor of the Marlborough, the flagship of the Mediterranean. He was a man of poetic feeling, with a pretty turn for versifying, and a good knowledge of music, though no voice to speak of. The account he gave menof it is this: He was staying in the country with an old messmate – I don't think he mentioned the name – who one day gve him some old journals, scrapbooks, &c., to look through; and among them he found this song, which he copied there and then. Of its origin there was no trace. I more than half suspect that he was himself the author of it. The tune to which he always sang it, and which his successors have of course followed, is, he said, an adaptation of an air in Don Giovanni.'

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 03:31 PM

Capstan Bars, Bone, David, W Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932.

SHORT HAUL CHANTIES
Haul on th' Bowlin'
Early in th' Morning
Hand o'er Hand
Boney
Paddy Doyle
The "Dead Horse" Chanty
HALYARD CHANTIES
Ranzo
Blow, Boys, Blow
Tom's Gone t' Hilo
DEBT AND CREDIT
Blow th' Man Down
"Whis-key, John-nie"
Roll th' Cotton Down
CAPATAN CHANTIES
Sally Brown
Amsterdam
Shenandoah
OUT OF THE BLUE
The Rio Grande
Homeward Bound
The Liverpool Girls
WINDLASS AND PUMP CHANTIESLowlands
Stormalong
Santy Ana
"LEAVE HER, JOHNNIE, LEAVE HER!"
THE LIVERPOOL SONG

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:40 PM

Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, Healy, James N. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967

SAILORS AND THEIR LOVES
The Belfast Sailor (quote)(words only)
The Drowning of Thomas Murphy
Bold Denis McCarthy
The Sailor and his Love
Sligo Shore (quote)(words only)
The Saddest Breeze
The Sailor from Limerick Town
Charming Mary Neal
Your Faithful Sailor Boy
SHANTIES
Haul Away, Joe (quote)(words only)
Across The Western Ocean
Paddy Doyle
Paddy on the Railway
The Montague
We're all Bound to Go
The Old Horse
TALL SHIPS A-VOYAGING
A Sailor's Way (quote)(words only)
The Middlesex Flora
The Ballad of the Blind Sailors
The Boys of Baltimore
Commodore Jack Barry
Captain Coulston
Manning the Pirate (quote)(words only)
Kelly the Pirate
The Ouzel (quote)(words only)
Fineen O'Driscoll, the Rover
The Dack of Baltimore
Grainnu Mhaol
WRECKS
The Poulduff Fisherman (quote)(words only)
The Pomona
The French 'Cavavaille'
The Loss of the Hantoon
Baidin Fheidhlimidh (Phelim's wee boat)
The Rescue of the Vivandiere
The Sorroful Fate of O'Brien
The Sinking of the Lusitania (quote)(words only)
The Fate of the Mailboat
SPANISH WINE AND WILD GEESE
Roisin dubh; Dark Rosaleen
Salonika (quote)
St. Patrick's Arrival
Lonely Banna Strand
Sailing in the Lowlands Low
The Lowlands of Hollond The Irish Drummer
Van Dieman's Land
To the Aid of the Pope
COME BACK TO ERIN
McDermott's Farewell (quote)(words only)
The County of Mayo
The Emigrant's Voyage to America
My Love Nell
The Loss of the Atlantic Steamship
The Glasgow
Sweet Cootehill Town
The Streams of Bunclody
Adieu to Erin (quote)(words only)
At the Dawn of the Morning
Captain Thompson
THE FISHERMEN OF THE COAST
Arranmore Boat Song (quote)(words only)
Herring the King
The Queen of Connemara
The Boatman of Kinsale
My Connor the Fisherman
The Banks of Newfoundland
The Faythe Fishing Fleet
Arranmore Boat Song
SONGS OF THE LAKES AND RIVERS
My Colleeb Deas Donn (quote)(words only)
My Beautiful Shannon
The lake of Coolfin
An tAmhrainin Siodraimin
A Sweet Little Song
The Banks of the Calm Golden Suir
The Cruise of the Calabar
The Strabane Fleet
The Rivers
THE COASTLINE
The Curlew (quote)(words only)
The Holy Ground (quote)(words only)
The Regatta (quote)(words only)
The Praises of Kingston Harbour
Eochaill
My Sunday Morning Maiden
In Praise of Kinsale (quote)(words only)
The Kinsale Ballad
Bantry Bay
Galway Bay

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 05:15 PM

Sea Songs And Ballads from Nineteeth Century Nova Scotia, Fowke, Edith, 1981

AROUND THE WORLD AND HOME AGAIN
ARRIVING BACK AT LIVERPOOL
THE BANKS OF BRANDY WINE
THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
THE BIG FIVE GALLON JAR
THE BLIND SAILOR
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
BOLD JACK DONAHOE
BOUND TO RIO
THE BOUNTY JUMPER
THE BRAES OF BALQUITHER
BRIGANTINE SOROCCO
THE CABIN BOY
THE CITY OF BALTIMORE
THE CUMBERLAND'S CREW
THE DESOLATE WIDDOW
FIRE IN THE FORETOP
THE FROZEN GIRL
THE GHOSTLY SAILORS
GOODBYE FARE YE WELL
HANGMAN JOHNNIE
HARBOUR GRACE
HAUL THE ALABAMA BOWLINE
ISLE OF FUGI
LAY OUT, TAKE SHEETS AND HAUL
LIVERPOOL PACKET
THE MARY
(MIND HOW YOU TRIFLE WITH A GUN)
OLD ENGLAND'S GAINED THE DAY
OLD HOSS
OLD MOTHER HEAD'S
ON THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
ON THE BANKS OF THE SACREMENTO
ON THE PLAINS OF MEXICO
OUR FIFER BOY
THE PRIDE OF GLENCOE
THE RAMBLING IRISH MAN
ROLLING HOME TO MERRY ENGLAND
THE ROSE OF BRITAIN'S ISLE
THE ROSE OF BRITON'S ISLE
THE ROSE OF TRALEE
SAILOR'S BURIAL AT SEA
SAUER KRAUT
SAY OLD MAN
SCREWIN IN SONG
SHENANDORE
SHILOH BROWN
THE SHIP LADY SHERBROOKE
THE SHIP LADY SHEREBROOK
[THE SHOOTING STAR]
SWEET JINNY ON THE MOOR
THEN TURN OUT YOU JOLLY TARS
WALKING IN DE MIDDLE OF DE ROAD
WAY DOWN IN TENNESSEE
WE'LL PAY PADDY DOYLE FOR HIS BOOTS
WHAT YOU GOING TO DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR?
WHISKEY FOR MY JOHNNIE
THE WORN OUT SAILOR

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:39 PM

Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, (complete) Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961

Abel Brown the Sailor
Aboard the Kangaroo
According to the Act
Across the Rockies
Across the Western Ocean
A Hundred Years Ago
A Kom Till Mig Pa Lordag Kvall
Alabama
Albertina
A Long Time Ago
American Railway, The
Amsterdam
Anglesey, The
Arlis
A-rollin' Down the River
A-rovin'
As Off to the South'ard We Go
As-tu Connu le Per' Lanc'lot?
Away for Rio!
Away Susanna!
A Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother
Baltimore
Banks of the Sacremento
Banks o'Newf'n'land
Big Five-Gallon Jar
Billy Boy
Billy Riley
Blood-Red Roses
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow, Boys, Blow, for Californi-O!
Blow the Man Down
Blow Ye winds
Boney
Bosun's Alphabet, The
Bound for the Rio Grande
Bound to Australia
Bound to California
Brindisi di Marinai
Bully Boat, The
Bully in the Alley
Bunch o' Roses
California
Californi-O!
Campanayro, The
Campanero, The
Can't Ye Dance the Polka?
Can't Ye Hilo?
Captain Kidd
Captain Stormalong
C'est en Passant sur l'Pont de Morlaix
Challo Brown
Charlie One More Day
Cheer, Boys, Cheer
Cheerily Man (Men)
Chinee Bumboatman, The
Cialoma Di Li Tunnari
Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
Coal Black Rose
Codfish Shanty, The
Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John
Dance the Boatman
Dan, Dan
Dar Gigo Tre Flickor
Das Sampanmadchen
David Straat
Dead Horse, The
De History ob de World
De Hoffnung
De Kock
Den Gamla Briggen
Der Allerbeste Koch
Derby Ram
Der Hamborger Veermaster
Der Hamborger Vullrigger
Derriere Chez Nous y a z'un Petit Bois
De Runer von Hamborg
De Sandy Boy
Det Blaser Kallt, Kallt Vader Ifran Sjon
Det Hande Sig I Goteborg
Die Gute Alte Brigg
Dirty Old Pig, The
Dixie
Dixie Land
Do Let Me Go, Gels
Do Let Me Lone, Susan
Donkey Riding
Doodle Let Me Go
Dreadnaught, The
Drunken Sailor
E Amola!
Ebenezer, The
Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klaga
Eki Dumah
Eliza Lee
En Jaeger Gik At Jage
En Sjoman Alskar Havets Vag
Rn Sjomansvisa fran Kinakusten
En Ung Sjoman Forlustar
Es Gingen Drei Madchen
Essequibo River
Et Nous Irons a Valparaiso
Fantali for Julia
Farewell and Adieu to You
Fare Ye Well, My Bonnie Young Girl
Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo
Fire Down Below
Fire Ship, The
Fishes, The
Five-Gallon Jar, The
Flash Frigate, The
Flash Packet, The
Flying Cloud, The
Fol-de-lol-day
Frisch Auf, Alle Mann an Deck
'Frisco Ship, The
Gals o' Chile, The
Gals o' Dublin Town, The
Gal With the Blue Dress, The
General Taylor
Gimme De Banjo
Girl in Portland Street, The
Golden Vanitee, The
GoodBye, Farewell: As-Tu Connu le Per Lanc'lot?, Et Nous Irons a Valparaiso
Goodbye, Fare-ye-well
Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
Goodbye, Sing Fare You Well
Good Morning, Ladies All
Good Morning, Ladies All (Roller Bowler)
Good Night Ladies
Go Rowing
Go To Sea No More
Go To Sea Once More
Gumtree Canoe, The
Halarvisa
Hamburg, Du Schone Stadt
Hand-over-hand Chants
Handy Bandy Barque, The
Handy, Me Boys (Handy, Me Girls)
Hanging Johnny
Harp Without the Crown, The
Haul Away, Boys, Haul Away!
Haul Away, Joe (Jo)
Haul Away the Bowline
Haul 'er Away!
Hauley, Hauley-ho!
Haul Him Away!
Haul the Bowline
Hawks Eye Man, The
Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away
Heave Away Cheerily O!
Heave Away, Me Johnnies
Heave, My Boys, Away
He-bang, She-bang
Hello, Somebody!
Hieland Laddie
High Barbaree
High-O, Come Roll Me Over
Hilo, Boys, Hilo
Hilo, Come Down Below
Hilo, Johnny Brown
Hilonday
Hilo, Somebody Below
Hilo, Somebody, Hilo
Hob-y-derri-Dando
Hog-eye (Hogs-eye) Man, The
Holy Ground One More, The
Holystoning and Cargo-stowing Songs
Home, Dearie, Home
Home, Home, Home
Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare-ye-well)
Homeward Bound (Oh, We are Homeward Bound Today)
Homeward Bound (To the Liverpool Docks)
Ho Molly!
Hooker John
Hooraw for the Blackball Line
Hooraw, Me Loolo Boys (Gels)
Hourra, Mes Boues, Hourra!
Huckleberry Hunting
Hu, Hu, Hu!
Hullabaloo-Balay
Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah!
I'm Bound Away
In Cam'eltoon Once More
In 'Frisco Bay
Irish Emigrant, The
Jack-All-Alone
Jack Tar
Ja, Ja,Ja!
Jamboree
Jean Francois de Nantes
Jenny, Get Your Oatcake Done
Jinny Keep Yer Ringtail Warm
John Brown's Body
John Bull
John Cherokee
John, Come Tell Us As We Haul Away
John Damaray
John Dameray (N. Silsbee)
John Kkanaka
Johnny Bowker
Johnny, Bcome-along
Johnny, Come Down the Backstay
Johnny, Come Down to Hilo
Johnny, Come to Hilo
Johnny Poker
Johnny Polka
Johnny's Gone to Hilo (Ilo)
Johnny, Walkalong to Hilo
Julia
Knock a Man Down
Kom Hor, Kom Hor
La Danae
La Margot
Lampa bbo Lampa
La Pique
Larry Marr
Lay Me Down
Leave Her, Bullies, Leave Her
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Le Grand Coureur
Limejuice Ship, The
Limerick Shanty, The
Little Ball o' Yarn, The
Liverpool Judies (Girls), The
Liverpool Packet, The
Liverpool Song, The
Liza Lee
Lower the Boat Down
Lowlands
Lowlands (Golden Vanitee)
Lowlands (My Dollar an' a Half a Day)
Lowlands Away
Lowland Sea, The
Lowlands Low, The
Magelhan (original)
Magellan (Rolling Home)
Maggie May
Maid of Amsterdam, The
Mainsail Haul
Mermaid, The
Merrily We Roll Along
MinMand Han Var En Sjomand
Miss Juliana Brown
Miss Lucy Long
Miss Lucy Loo
Mister Stormalong
Mister Stormalong John
Mobile Bay
Mochyn Du
Mudder Dinah
My Bonnie Highland Lassie-O
My Dollar an' a Half a Day
My Johnny
Natiomal Song Used for Hauling (Russian)
New York Gals, The
Oak and the Ash, The
O Du Glade Sjoman
Off to Sea Once More
Oh, Aye, Rio
Oh, I'm Going to Leave Her
Oh, Stormalong
Oh, Susanna
Oh, Who's Been Here?
Old Brig, The
Old English Chantey
Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo
Old Santy Ana
Ols Stormalong
Old Swansea Town One More
O Mary, Come Down!
On Board of the Kangaroo
One More Day
Only One More Day
Opsang for Jonas Anton Hjelm
Opsang for Preciosa
Outward and Homeward Bound
Ox-eye Man, The
Paddy Doyle's Boots
Paddy, Get Back
Paddy, Lay Back
Paddy West
Paddy Works on the Railway
Pay Me the Money Down
Plains of Mexico, The
Poor Lucy Anna
Poor Old Horse
Poor Old Joe
Poor Old Man
Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
Powder Monkey, The
Quand la Boiteuse Va-t-au Marche
Put Yer Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away
Rando Ray
Randy Dandy O!
Ratcliffe Highway
Reuben Ranzo
Rio Grande
Rise Me Up from Down Below
River Lea, The
Rock 'n' Row Me Over
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Roll and Go! (A Long Time Ago)
Roll and Go! (Tommy's on the Tops'l Yard)
Roll, Boys, Roll!
Roll, Bullies, Roll!
Roller Bowler
Rollin' Down to Trinidad
Rolling Home
Rolling Home by the Silvery Moon
Rolling King
Rolling River, The
Roll, Julia, Roll
Roll 'n' Go (Sally Brown)
Roll the Cotton Down
Roll the Old Chariot
Roll the Woodpile Down
Rosabell Fredolin
Round the Bay of Mexico
Round the Corner, Sally
Round Yr Horn
Royal Artillery Man
Ruler King
Run, Let the Bulgine Run
Russian Chantey for Heaving the Anchor
Russian Song for Heaving the Anchor
Sacramento
Sailor Foireman
Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The
Sailor Loves, The
Sailor's Alphabet, The
Sailor's Grace, The
Sailor's Way, The
St. Helena Soldier
Sally Brown
Sally Rackett
Saltpetre Shanty
Samuel Hall
Santa Anna
Santiana
Saucy Arabella, The
Saucy Jack Tar, The
Saucy Sailor Boy, The
Seafarers
Sebastopol
Serafina
Shake Her, Johnny, Shake Her!
Shallow Brown
Shanghai Brown
Shanty for the Christina Packet
Shaver, The
Shenandoah
Shenandoah (Bullen)
Shenandoah, The
Shiloh Brown
Shinbone Al
Shule Agra
Singapor-Sang
Sing a Song, Blow-along O!
Sing Hilo, Me Ranzo Ray
Sing-outs for Rope, Capstan, and Halyard Winch
Sing, Sally O!
Siste Reis
Sister Susan
Skeppet Bernadotte
Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Hogsta Berg
Skonnert Albertina
Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle
So Early in the Morning
So Handy, My Boys
So Heave Away
Sound the Jubilee
South Australia
Southern Ladies
Spanish Ladies
Stand to Yer Ground
Stormalong
Stormalong John
Stormalong, Lads, Stormy
Stormy Along, John
Stormy Winds do Blow, The
Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man
Susannavisan
Svineper
Sweatin'-up Chants
Sweet Nightengale
Syng Hoit Faleri
Tapiocum
Ten Stone
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Three Sailors of Bristol City
Tiddy High O!
Time for Us to Leave Her
Timme Heave-O, Hang Her Hilo!
'Tis Time nfor Us to Go
Tommy's Gone Away
Tommy's On the Top'l Yard
Tom's Gone to Hilo (Ilo)
To My Hero Bangidero
Towrope Girls, The
Upidee, Upidah
Up She Goes
Up, Up, My Boys, Up a Hill
Valparaiso Round the Horn
Van Dieman's Land
Ved Ankerhioning
Vi Styrte Utover Atlanten
Walkalong, Miss Susiana Brown
Walkalong, My Rosie
Walkalong, You Sally Brown
Walk Him Along, John
Walk Me Along, Johnny
Wat Wi Doht
'Way. Me Susiana!
'Way, Stormalong John
We'll Go to Sea no More
We'll Ranzo Way
We're All Bound to Go
Where Am I to Go, M'Johnnies?
Whisky Johnny
Whiskey, You're My Darling
Wide Missouri The
Wild Goose Shanty The
Won't Ye Go My Way?
Wo Stormalong
Yankee John, Stormalong
Yaw, Yaw, Yaw
Yellow Rose of Texas, The
Yeo Heave Ho!

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 02:42 PM

Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Mystic Seaport , 1994. (abridged)

Abel Brown the Sailor
Aboard the Kangaroo
According to the Act
Across the Rockies
Across the Western Ocean
A Hundred Years Ago
Alabama
Albertina
A Long Time Ago
Amsterdam
Anglesey, The
A-rollin' Down the River
A-rovin'
As Off to the South'ard We Go
Away for Rio!
Away Susanna!
A Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother
Baltimore
Banks of the Sacremento
Banks o'Newf'n'land
Big Five-Gallon Jar
Billy Boy
Billy Riley
Blood-Red Roses
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow, Boys, Blow, for Californi-O!
Blow the Man Down
Blow Ye winds
Boney
Bosun's Alphabet, The
Bound for the Rio Grande
Bound to Australia
Bound to California
Bully Boat, The
Bully in the Alley
Bunch o' Roses
California
Californi-O!
Campanayro, The
Campanero, The
Can't Ye Dance the Polka?
Can't Ye Hilo?
Captain Stormalong
Challo Brown
Charlie One More Day
Cheer, Boys, Cheer
Cheerily Man (Men)
Chinee Bumboatman, The
Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
Coal Black Rose
Codfish Shanty, The
Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John
Dan, Dan
Dead Horse, The
Derby Ram
Dixie Land
Do Let Me Go, Gels
Do Let Me Lone, Susan
Donkey Riding
Doodle Let Me Go
Dreadnaught, The
Drunken Sailor
Ebenezer, The
Eki Dumah
Eliza Lee
Essequibo River
Farewell and Adieu to You
Fare Ye Well, My Bonnie Young Girl
Fire Down Below
Fire Ship, The
Fishes, The
Five-Gallon Jar, The
Flash Frigate, The
Flash Packet, The
Fol-de-lol-day
'Frisco Ship, The
Gals o' Chile, The
Gals o' Dublin Town, The
Gal With the Blue Dress, The
General Taylor
Gimme De Banjo
Girl in Portland Street, The
Golden Vanitee, The
Goodbye, Fare-ye-well
Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
Goodbye, Sing Fare You Well
Good Morning, Ladies All
Good Morning, Ladies All (Roller Bowler)
Go To Sea No More
Go To Sea Once More
Hand-over-hand Chants
Handy Bandy Barque, The
Handy, Me Boys (Handy, Me Girls)
Hanging Johnny
Harp Without the Crown, The
Haul Away, Boys, Haul Away!
Haul Away, Joe (Jo)
Haul Away the Bowline
Haul 'er Away!
Hauley, Hauley-ho!
Haul Him Away!
Haul the Bowline
Hawks Eye Man, The
Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away
Heave Away Cheerily O!
Heave Away, Me Johnnies
Heave, My Boys, Away
He-bang, She-bang
Hello, Somebody!
Hieland Laddie
High Barbaree
High-O, Come Roll Me Over
Hilo, Boys, Hilo
Hilo, Come Down Below
Hilo, Johnny Brown
Hilonday
Hilo, Somebody Below
Hilo, Somebody, Hilo
Hog0eye (Hogs-eye) Man, The
Holy Ground One More, The
Holystoning and Cargo-stowing Songs
Home,Dearie, Home
Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare-ye-well)
Homeward Bound (Oh, We are Homeward Bound Today)
Homeward Bound (To the Liverpool Docks)
Hooker John
Hooraw for the Blackball Line
Hooraw, Me Loolo Boys (Gels)
Huckleberry Hunting
Hurrah, Sing Fare You Well
I'm Bound Away
In 'Frisco Bay
Irish Emigrant, The
Jack-All-Alone
Jack Tar
Ja, Ja,Ja!
Jamboree
Jenny, Get Your Oatcake Done
Jinny Keep Yer Ringtail Warm
John, Come Tell Us As We Haul Away
John Dameray (N. Silsbee)
John Kkanaka
Johnny Bowker
Johnny, Come Down the Backstay
Johnny, Come Down to Hilo
Johnny, Come to Hilo
Johnny Poker
Johnny Polka
Johnny's Gone to Hilo
Johnny, Walkalong to Hilo
Knock a Man Down
Larry Marr
Lay Me Down
Leave Her, Bullies, Leave Her
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Limejuice Ship, The
Little Ball o' Yarn, The
Liverpool Judies (Girls), The
Liverpool Packet, The
Liverpool Song, The
Liza Lee
Lowlands
Lowlands (Golden Vanitee)
Lowlands (My Dollar an' a Half a Day)
Lowlands Away
Lowland Sea, The
Lowlands Low, The
Maggie May
Maid of Amsterdam, The
Mainsail Haul
Miss Juliana Brown
Miss Lucy Long
Miss Lucy Loo
Mister Stormalong
Mister Stormalong John
Mobile Bay
Mudder Dinah
My Bonnie Highland Lassie-O
My Dollar an' a Half a Day
New York Gals, The
Oak and the Ash, The
Off to Sea Once More
Oh, Aye, Rio
Oh, I'm Going to Leave Her
Oh, Stormalong
Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo
Old Santy Ana
Ols Stormalong
Old Swansea Town One More
O Mary, Come Down!
On Board of the Kangaroo
One More Day
Only One More Day
Outward and Homeward Bound
Ox-eye Man, The
Paddy Doyle's Boots
Paddy, Lay Back
Paddy West
Paddy Works on the Railway
Pay Me the Money Down
Plains of Mexico, The
Poor Lucy Anna
Poor Old Horse
Poor Old Joe
Poor Old Man
Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
Put Yer Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away
Rando Ray
Randy Dandy P!
Ratcliffe Highway
Reuben Ranzo
Rio Grande
Rise Me Up from Down Below
River Lea, The
Rock 'n' Row Me Over
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Roll and Go! (A Long Time Ago)
Roll and Go! (Tommy's on the Tops'l Yard)
Roll, Boys, Roll!
Roll, Bullies, Roll!
Roller Bowler
Rollin' Down to Trinidad
Rolling Home
Rolling King
Rolling River, The
Roll, Julia, Roll
Roll 'n' Go (Sally Brown)

Roll the Cotton Down
Roll the Old Chariot
Roll the Woodpile Down
Round the Bay of Mexico
Round the Corner, Sally
Royal Artillery Man
Ruler King
Run, Let the Bulgine Run
Sacramento
Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The
Sailor Loves, The
Sailor's Alphabet, The
Sailor's Grace, The
Sailor's Way, The
St. Helena Soldier
Sally Brown
Sally Rackett
Saltpetre Shanty
Santa Anna
Santiana
Saucy Arabella, The
Saucy Jack Tar, The
Saucy Sailor Boy, The
Seafarers
Sebastopol
Serafina
Shake Her, Johnny, Shake Her!
Shallow Brown
Shanghai Brown
Shaver, The
Shenandoah
Shenandoah (Bullen)
Shenandoah, The
Shiloh Brown
Shinbone Al
Sing a Song, Blow-along O!
Sing Hilo, Me Ranzo Ray
Sing-outs for Rope, Capstan, and Halyard Winch
Sing, Sally O!
Sister Susan
Skonnert Albertina
Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle
So Early in the Morning
So Handy, My Boys
Sound the Jubilee
South Australia
Southern Ladies
Spanish Ladies
Stand to Yer Ground
Stormalong
Stormalong John
Stormalong, Lads, Stormy
Stormy Along, John
Sweatin'-up Chants
Ten Stone
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Tiddy High O!
Time for Us to Leave Her
Timme Heave-O, Hang Her Hilo!
'Tis Time nfor Us to Go
Tommy's Gone Away
Tommy's On the Top'l Yard
Tom's Gone to Hilo (Ilo)
To My Hero Bangidero
Towrope Girls, The
Up She Goes
Valparaiso Round the Horn
Van Dieman's Land
Walkalong, Miss Susiana Brown
Walkalong, My Rosie
Walkalong, You Sally Brown
Walk Him Along, John
Walk Me Along, Johnny
'Way. Me Susiana!
'Way, Stormalong John
We'll Go to Sea no More
We'll Ranzo Way
We're All Bound to Go
Where Am I to Go, M'Johnnies?
Whisky Johnny
Wide Missouri The
Wild Goose Shanty The
Won't Ye Go My Way?
Wo Stormalong
Yankee John, Stormalong
Yaw, Yaw, Yaw
Yeo Heave Ho!

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 02:43 PM

Boxing the Compass, Palmer, Roy, Yorkshire, Herron, 2001.
Admiral Byng
Andrew Rose
Another of Seafarers
Balena, The
Banks of Newfoundland, The
Bargeman's ABC, The
Bengamin's Lamentation, The
Blow the Man Down
Blow Ye Winds
Boatie Rows, The
Boatswain's Call, The
Bold Adventures of Captain Ross
Bold Princess Royal
Ceasar's Victory, The
Candlelight Fisherman, The
Captain Barton's Distress
Captain Glen's Unhappy Voyage
Captain James
Captain Kid's Farewell
Captain Mansfield's Fight with the Turks
City of Baltimore, The
Common Sailor, The
Copy of Verses composed by Captain Henry Every, A
Copy of Verses on Jefferys the Seaman, A
Cordial Advice
Death of Admiral Benbow, The
Deep Sea Tug
Diesel and Shale
Disappointed Sailor, The
Disconsolate Judy's Lamentation
Distressed Men of War
Dolphin's Return, The
Dockyard Gate, The
Dreadnought, The
Duke William
England's Great Loss by a Storm of Wind
English Courage Displayed
Excellent New Song, An
Execution of Five Pirates for Murder
Famous Fight at Malago, The
Famous Sea Fight between Captain and the Rainbow, The
Fancy Frigate, The
Fare Ye Well, lovely Nancy
Female Cabin Boy, The
Fiddler's Green
Final Trawl, The
Fire Ship, The
First of the Emigrants, The
Fisher Lad of Whitby, The
Fishes' Lamentation, The
Flying Cloud, The
Flying Dutchman, The
George Jones
Golden Voyage, The
Grace Darling
Greenland Men, The
Greenland Voyage, The
Greenland Whale Fishery, The
Grimsby Fishermen, The
Grimsby Lads, The
Heave away, my Johnny
Holy Ground, The
Homeward Bound
Honour of Bristol, The
I am an Ancient Mariner
Jackie Tar
Jack Tar
Jervis Bay, The
John Dory
Jolly Sailor'd True Description of a Man-of-War, The
Joyful New Ballad, A
Kola Run, The
Lady Franklin's Lament
Leave her, Johnny
Leaving of Liverpool, The
Liverpool Girls
Liverpool John
Looking for a Ship
Loss of the Amphitrite
Loss of the Evelyn Marie, The
Lucky Sailor, The
Lustily, lustily
Maui Boat, Leinster, The
Man-of-War's Garland, The
Merchant Shipping Act, The
Montague Whaler, The
Nelson's Death and Victory
Net for a Raven, A
New Sea Song
New Song, called the Frolicsome Sea Captain, A
New Song called the Victory, A
New Song on the Blanford, A
New Song on the Total Defeat of the French Fleet, A
North Country Collier, The
Off to Sea Once More
Paddy West
Pleasant and Delightful
Praise of Sailors, The
President Parker
Rambling Sailor, The
Ram It! I'm RDP
Ratcliffe Highway
Roll, Alabama, Roll
Rolling Home
Rolling Sailor, The
Rounding the Horn
Sailor's Alphabet, The
Sailor's Christmas Day, The
Sailor's Complaint, The
Sailors for my Money
Sailor's Hornpipe, The
Sailor's Lamentation, The
Sailor's Life, A
Sailor's Only Delight, The
Sailor's Wives, The
Sally Munro
Sea Fight, The
Seaman's Compass, The
Sea Martyrs, The
Seamen and Soldier's Last Farewell, The
Seamen's Distress, The
Sramen's Wives' Vindication, The
Second of August
Servant of Rosemary Lane, The
Shannon and Chesapeake
Shaw-Savill's Buccaneers
Ship in Distress, The
Ship is all Laden, The
Shoals of Herring, The
Silk Merchant's Daughter, The
Sinking of the Graf Spee, The
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing in the Lowlands
Smacksman, The
Smuggler's Victory, The
Song
Song of the Seamen and Land Soldiers, A
Song on the Duke's Late Glorious Victory, A
Spanish Ladies
Stormy Weather, Boys
Strike the Bell
Swallow the Anchor
Swell My Net Full
Tars of the Blanche, The
Three Jolly Fishermen
Three Score and Ten
Tiger Bay
Unseaworthy Ship, The
Upon Sir Francis Drake's Return
Valiant Sailor, The
Whip Jamboree
William Taylor
Winning of Cales, The
Wreck of the Northfleet, The
Wreck of the Royal Charter, The
Yankee Man-of-War, The
Young Sailor Cut Down, The

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 09:35 AM

I will continue posting the contents of the various books in my library (see a previous post for the titles), concentrating on those that are currently available, unless someone has a particular interest.
Cheers,
Geo

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:04 AM

Songs The Whalemen Sang, Huntington, Gale, Mystic Seaport, 2005
A Charming Fellow
A Farmer's Boy
A Fitting Out
A Life on the Ocean Wave
Anew Liberty Song
A New Sea Song
A New Song
A Sailor's Trade is a Roving Life
A Song on the Nantucket Ladies
A Whaling Scene
Adieu My Native Land
Adieu to Erin
American Stranger, see When first into This Country
An Ancient Riddle
Angels Whisper
Aran's Lonely Home
As I Grow Old
Banks of Banna
Banks of Champlain
Banks of Glenco
Banks of the Schuylkill
Bark Gay Head
Bark Ocean Rover
Barney McCoy, see Norah Darling
Beaco Light
Beggarman
Behind the Green Bush
Betsy is a Beauty Fair, see Fair Betsy
Bible Story
Billy O'Rourke
Blessed land of Love and Liberty
Blow High Blow Low
Blow Ye Winds
Bold Privateer, see Captain Calls All Hands
Bonaparte
Bonaparte on St. Helena
Bonnet of Blue
Bonny Bunch of Roses-O
Bride's Farewell
Bright Phoebe
British Man-of-War
California Song
Can of Grog
Captain
Captain Calls All Hands
Captain James
Captain's Apprentice, see Captain James
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold, see Nobleman's Daughter
Caroline of Edinburgh Town, see Lovely Caroline
Coast of Peru
Come Let Us Be Jolly
Confession
County of Tyrone
Covent Garden
Croppy Boy
Cruise of the Dove
Cupid's Garden see Covent Garden
Dark-Eyed Sailor
Dauntless Sailor
Demon of the Sea
Desolation
Diego's Bold Shore
Down Wapping
Dying Soldier
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Erin's Lovely Home, see Aran's Lonely Home
Factor's Song, see Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts
Fair Betsy
Fanny Blair
Fare You Well
Farewell My Dear Nancy
First Time I Saw My Love
Flora the Lily of the West
Flowing Bowl, see Sling the Flowing Bowl
Gennett and Genoe
Gosport Beach, see Undutiful Daughter
Gosport Tragedy, see Ship Carpenter
Green Linnet
Greenland Whale
Hearts of Gold
Heathen Dear
Hunter's Lane
I Can Not Call Her Mother
I Had a Handsome Fortune
I Was Once a Sailor
In Days When We Went Gipsying
Indian Hunter
Jacket So Blue, see Bonnet of Blue
Jamie's on the Stormy Sea
Jojn Brown
John Bull's Epistle
John Riley
Keyhole in the Door
Lass of Mowee
Lily of the West
Little Mary the Sailor's Bride, see Beggarman
Little Mohee, see Lass of Mowee
Loose Every Sail to the Breeze
Lord Our God
Love Song in the Year 1769
Lovely Caroline
Maid of Erin
Maid on the Shore
Mantle So Green
Mary's Dream
McDonald's Return to Glenco, see Banks of Glenco
Moll Brooks
Moon Is Brightly Beaming Love
Most Beautiful
Mother's Admonition, see Tarry Trousers
My Flora and I, see Shepherd's Lament
Nelson
Neptune
Nobleman's Daughter
Norah Darling
Now We Steer Our Course for Home
O Logie O Buchan
Ocean
Ocean Queen
Old Horse
Old Hulk
One Night Sad and Languid
Our Old Friend Coffin
Our Ship Is Lying in Harbour
Phoebe, see Bright Phoebe
Pilot
Pirate of the Isles
Plowboy's Courtship, see Queen of the May
Pol and Sal
Post Below
Prayer
Prayer at the Start of a Voyage
Pretty Sally
Pride of Kildare
Queen of the May
Recruiting Sargeant
Reily's Jailed
Rinordine
Rolling Down to Old Mohee
Rose of Allendale
Rover of the Sea
Row On
Sailor Boy's Song
Sailor from Dover, see Pretty Sally
Sailor's Adieu, see Topsail Shivers in the Wind
Sailor's Come All Ye, see Hearts of Gold
Sailor's Farewell
Sandshark
Sarah Mariah Cornell
Saturday Night at Sea
Sea Captain, see Maid on the Shore
Sea Ran High
Sequel to Will Watch
Sheffield Prentice Boy
Shepherd's Daughter
Shepherd's Lament
Shepherd's Resolution, see Behind the Green Bush                                                                                                                                             
Ship Carpenter
Ship Euphrasia
Silvery Moon
Silvery Tide
Sling the Flowing Bowl
Song of Solomon's Temple
Song of Courtship
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Worth
Sovereign of the Sea
Springfield Mountain
Storm, see The Tempest
Storm Was Loud
Susan the Pride of Kildare
Tarry Trousers
Terrible Polly
The Sea
The Tempest
The Times
The Wreath
There She Blows,see Wounde Whale
Thou Hast Learned to Love Another
Topsail Shivers in the Wind
Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts
Turkish Lady
Undutiful Daughter
Village Born Beauty
Virtuous America
Wait for the Wagon
We Met 'Twas in a Crowd
Wedding Rite, see I Can Not Call Her Mother
Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Whalefish Song
Whaleman's Lament
Whaler's Song
When First into this Country
When I Remember
Wide World of Waters
William Taylor
Willie and Mary, see Beggarman
Willie Gray
Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea
Willy Rily, see Reily's Jailed
Wings of a Goney
Women Love Kissing as Well as the Men
Wounded Whale
Yankee Doodle, see The Times
Ye Parliaments of England
Yonder Stands a Handsome lady, see Song on Courtship
Young Sailor Bold, see Nobleman's Daughter
Young Shepherd, see Shepherd's Lament
Young Virgin

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 12 Apr 10 - 09:51 AM

Naval Songs, Pond, William A. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints.
Absent Friends And You, Mary
Adieu to Maimuma
A Life on the Ocean Wave
All Hands Ahoy!
All on Account of Eliza
America, Commerce and Freedom
American Flag
America, or, My Country, 'Tis of Thee
Anchor's Weigh'd
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Ballad of Billee Taylor
Ballad of the Oysterman
Banner of the Stars
Barney Buntline, or, The Sailor's Consolation
Best (The) Bower Anchor
Black Ball
Black Eyed Susan
Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow
Bonny Boat
By the Blue Sea
Canadian Boat Song
Cease, Rude Boreas
Columbia Rules the Sea
Columbia's Seamen
Come, Loose Every Sail
Comrades, Join the Flag of Glory
Constellation and Insurgente
Constitution and Guerriere
Dreadnought (The)
Enterprise and Boxer(words only)
Every Inch a Sailor
Fisherman's Daughter
Flag of the Constellation
Flash Frigate
Freedom of the Seas
For Sheeting Home Topsails (Outward Bound )
For Rousing Up the Bunt of a Sail (Paddy Doyle)
Gale (The)
Gallant Thunderbomb
Gen'l Taylor Gained the Day
Girl I Left Behind Me
Good Bye, Charlie
Good Night, Ladies
Hail, Columbia
Haul Away, Joe
Haul Out the Bo'line
Haul the Bowline
Here's a Health to Thee, Tom Breeze
High Barbary
Homeward Bound
Hornet, or, Victory No. 5
I am a Merry Sailor Lad
I Love to Roam
I'm Afloat
I Wish I was Old Stormy's Son
Jack's Claim to Poll
Jack's Yarn (Little Jack)
Jack Ratlin
John Francois
Johnny Boker
Kearsage and Alabama
Keep Me in My Tarpaulin Jacket
Knock a Man Down
Larboard Watch
Larry O'Brien
Lee Gangway Chorus (A Roving)
Let the Ocean Heave to the Tempest's Wing
Life On the Ocean Wave
Life's Weather Gauge
Lighthouse (The)
Light of Memory
Lily of the Lake
Little Jack, or, the Sailor's Story
Liverpool Jack
Manhattan, Dear Isle
Meeting (The)
Melodies of Many Lands
Mermaids; or, On Friday Morning
My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
My Tommy's Gone a High-Low
Nancy (The)
Nancy, Dear
Nancy Lee
Norfolk Girls
Oh! They Call Me Hanging Johnny
Oh! The Hogeye men are all the Go
Old Storm Along
Our Navy(words only)
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Paddy, Come Work on the Railway
Parlement of England
Paul Jone's Victory
Perry's Victory
Pilot (The)
Pirate of the Isle
Polly
Poor Jack
Practise Cruise
Pull Away
Red, White and Blue
Reuben Ranzo
Rio Grande
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Rolling Home
Royal Fisher
Rules of the Road at Sea
Sailing by the Lowlands
Sailor Boy's Farewell
Sailor's (The) Journal
Sea and Land Victories
Sea, the Glorious Sea
Seamen of Columbia
Shenadore
Ship Ahoy
Siege of Tripoli
Song of the Fishes
Star Spangled Banner
Tar's Farewell
Ten Thousand Miles Away
There's Melody, Boys
The Two Proud Sisters of the Sea
Three Bells
Three Fishers Went Sailing
Tom Bowling
Tom Tackle
Torpedo and the Whale
True Blue
Truxton's Victory
United States and Macedonian (1)(words only)
United States and Macedonian (2)(words only)
Unmooring
Wasp's Frolic (words only)
We Be Three Poor Mariners
Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
What Will You Do, Love?
Whiskey Johnny
Will Watch
Wives and Sweethearts
Yankee Chronology
Yankee Girls
Yankee Man of War
Yankee Tars
Yankee Thunders
Young Midshipman

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 11 Apr 10 - 04:40 PM

The Seven Seas Shanty Book, Sampson, John , Boosey & Co., London, 1927.
CAPSTAN SHANTIES
Rio Grande
The Dreadnaught
We're all bound to go
Shenandoah
Roving
Santa Anna
The Blackball Line
Sally Brown
High Barbaree
Lowlands
Can't you dance the polka
There's fire down below
Mister Stormalong
Homeward Bound
One more day
Leave her, Johnnie,leave her
When Johnny comes own to Hilo
Clear the track, let the Bullgine run
FORE SHEET SHANTIES
Hauling on the Bowline
Haul away, Joe
HALLIARD SHANTIES
Blow the man down
Reuben Ranzo
Whiskey
Hanging Johnny
A long time ago
Boney
John's gone to Hilo
Blow, boys, blow
Dead Horse
Roll the Cotton down
So handy, my boys, so handy
Hurrah, sing fare-you-well
RUNAWAY SHANTIES
The Drunken Sailor
Highland Laddie
BUNTING SHANTY
Paddy Doyle
SEA SONGS
Rolling Home
The Stately Southerner
Spanish Ladies
Mainsail Haul
According to the act

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Apr 10 - 04:18 PM

Love them alpha lists!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 09 Apr 10 - 04:00 PM

Chanteying Aboard American Ships, Harlow, F.P., Mystic Seaport, 2004.
A Fal-De-Lal-Day
A Hundred Years Ago
Aboard the Henry Clay
Across the Western Ocean
Adieu to Maimuna
Ah-Hoo-E-La-E
Along the Lowlands
A-Roving (The Maid of Amsterdam)
Baffin's Bay
Banks of Sacremento
Barber Song, The
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Black Ball Line, The
Blow Boys Blow
Blow the Man Down
Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
Boston
Bo'sun's Story The
Calling the Watch
Can't You Dance the Polka
Christopher Columbus
Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
Coast of Peru, The
Constitution and the Guerriere, The
Cruise of the Dreadnaught
Darky Sunday School, The
Dead Horse, The
Dixie's Isle
Do Me Ama
Drunken Sailor, The (Up She Rises)
Early in the Morning
Edgartown Whaling Song
Fate of the Nancy Bell, The
Fire Down Below
From Surabaya to Pasoeroean
Golden Vanitee
Greenland Whale, The
Gwine to Git a Home Bime By
Handsome Charlie's Sing Out
Hanging Johnny
Haul Away, Joe
Haul the Bowline
Hauling in the Slack of the Foresheet
Heave Away Cheerily
Heave Away My Johnnies (We're All Bound To Go)
High Barbaree
Hilo, My Ranzo Way
Hog-Eye Man, The
Home on the Mountain Wave, a
Homeward Bound (Good-bye Fare You Well)
Horn of the Hiram Q, The
I Love the Blue Mountains
It's Advertised in Boston
Japanese Short Drag
John Francois (Boney Was a Warrior)
John, John Crow
Johnny Boker
Johnny Get Your Oatcake Done (Jamboree)
Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her
Let Go the Reefy Tackle
Lindy Lowe
Liverpool Girls, The
Long Time Ago, a
Lowlands
Married to a Mermaid
Mermaid, The
Merman, The
Mobile Bay
Nancy Lee
Nantucket P'int
Nantucket Skipper, The
Oh, Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
Old Nantucket Whaling Song
Old Stormy
One More Day
Outward Bound
Paddy Doyle and his Boots
Pirate of the Isle, The
Poor Old Joe
Poor Old Man
Priest and the Nuns, The
Reuben Ranzo
Riding on a Donkey
Rio Grande
Roll the Cotton Down
Rolling Down to Old Maui
Rolling Home
Sailor's Alphabet, The
Sally Brown (Roll and Go)
Santa Ana (On the Plains of Mexico)
Santy
Shallow Brown
Shannon and Chesapeake
Ship Lord Wolsely, The
Short Cry or Sing Out, a
Short Drag
Sing Out, a
Slapander-Gosheka
So Handy, My Boys, So Handy
Song of the Fishes
South Australia
Storm Along John
Stormy
Sun Down Below
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Tommy's Gone to Hilo
Topsail Halliards
'Twas a Love of Adventure
Walk Away, a
Way Sing Sally
Weather Main Brace
We're All Surrounded
Whale, The
Whalemen's Wives, The
Whiskey
Yankee Man-of-War, The
Yankee Tars

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 09 Apr 10 - 09:08 AM

The Way of the Ship: Shanties and Shantymen, Terry, Richard Runciman, Fireship Press, Tucson, 2008.
   (contains both Part I & Part II of The Shanty Book, Sailor Shanties)
A-roving (I)
A-roving (II)
Banks of the Sacremento, The
Billy Boy
Black Ball Line, The
Blow, my bully boys
Blow the man down
Blow ye winds of morning
Boney was a warrior
Bound for the Rio Grande
Bully Boat, The
Can't you dance the polka?
Cheer'ly, men
Clear the track, let the Bullgine run
Dead Horse, The
Do let me go
Drummer and the cook, The
Fire down below
Good-bye, fare ye well
Good morning, ladies all
Hanging Johnny
Haul away, Joe
Haul away, Joe (II)
Hilo, John Brown
Hilonday
Hilo Somebody
Hog's-eye Man, The
Hundred years ago, A
John Brown's Body
Johnny Boker
Johnny come down to Hilo
Lizer Lee
Long time ago, A
Lowlnds away
Miss Lucy Long
My Johnny
My Tommy's gone away
O Billy Riley
Oh run, let the Bullgine run
One more day
Paddy Doyle's boots
Paddy works on the railway
Reuben Ranzo
Roll the cotton down
Round the corner, Sally
Sailor likes his bottle, O!, The
Sally Brown
Santy Anna
Shallow Brown
Shaver, The
Shenandoah
Sing fare you well
So handy, me gels
Stormalong
Stormalong John
Time for us to leave her
Tom's gone to Hilo
We'll haul the bowlin'
We're all bound to go
Walk him along, Johnny
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
Whisky Johnny
Whoop Jamboree
Wild Goose Shanty, The
Won't you go my way?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:00 PM

For your "Drunken Sailor" entry, don't forget to check out ...

Olmsted, F.A. 1841. Incidents of a Whaling Voyage. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

...which appears to be the first printing of it. Available on Google Books.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:00 PM

Admirable collection!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:26 PM

Here's my Library:
*Abrahams, Roger D., Deep the water, shallow the shore. U of Texas Press, 1974.
*Baker & Miall,    Evryman's book of sea songs. J.M. Dent, 1982.
*Bone, David W Capstan Bars. Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932.
*Colcord, Joanna Carver, Songs of American sailormen. New York, W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1938.
*Colcord, Joanna Carver,   Roll and go. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill company, ca1924.
*Dingle, Aylward Edward, Spin a yarn, sailor: by Captain "Sinbad". Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company, 1935.
Doerflinger, William Main, Songs of the sailor and lumberman. New York, Macmillan Co., 1972.
*Doerflinger, William Main, Shantymen and shantyboys. New York, Macmillan, 1951
Firth, C.H., Naval Songs And Ballads., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991.
*Frye, John,   The men all singing. Norfolk, Va., Donning, 1978.
*Harlow, Frederick Pease, The Making of a Sailor. Marine Research Society, Salem, 1928.
*Harlow, F.P., Chanteying Aboard American Ships. Mystic Seaport, 2004.
Harry, Lahaina, Rhyming in the Rigging. Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge, 1978.
*Healy, James N. Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967.
Hugill, Stan, Songs of the Sea. McGraw, 1977.
*Hugill, Stan,   Shanties and sailors' songs. London, Jenkins, 1969.
*Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the seven seas. Mystic Seaport , 1994.
Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the seven seas. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961
*Huntington, Gale, Songs The Whalemen Sang. Mystic Seaport, 2005.
*Lomax, John Avery,   Best loved American folk songs. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1947.
*Lomax, Alan, The folk songs of North America. Illustrated. London, Cassell, 1960.
*Meloney, William Brown IV, The Chanty Man Sings. C.J.O'Brien, New York, 1926.
*Palmer, Roy, The Oxford book of sea songs. New York , Oxford University Press, 1986                      *
*Pond, William A. Naval Songs. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints.
Shay, Frank, An American sailor's treasury. New York, Smithmark 1991.
*Shay, Frank, American sea songs and chanteys. New York, W. W. Norton 1948.
*Smith, C. Fox, A Book of Shanties. Methuen & Co., London, 1927.
*Smith, Laura Alexandrine, The Music of the Waters. London. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1888.
*Stone, Christopher, Sea Songs And Ballads. Oxford, 1906.                                                                                     *
*USNA, Trident Society, The book of Navy songs. Annapolis, Md. United States Naval Institute, 1955.
*Whall, W. B., Sea songs and shanties. Glasgow, J. Brown & son, 1920.
Bok, Gordon, Time and the Flying Snow. Folk-Legacy Records, Sharon, 1977.
*Bullen, Frank T. & Arnold, W.F., Songs of Sea Labour. London, 1914, (Xerox copy)
Edward C. Cove, 25 Humorous Sailing Songs. Third Wish Publishing Co., Lincoln, 1982.
Koch, John, Sea Shanties. ANFOR Music Publishing, Brooklyn, 1979.
Mariide, To Make the Welkin Ring. Shanty Seattle, Seattle, 1981,
Millar, John Fitzhugh, A collection of Sea Chanteys. Williamsburg, ca1980 .
*Palmer, Roy, The Valiant Sailor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973.                                                   *
Rogers, Stan, Songs from Fogarty's Cove. 1982, OPC Publications, Ottawa
*Salley, George, A Seaman's Hymnal. Two Schooners, Gloucester Point, 1983.
Terry, Richard Runciman, The Shanty Book Part I, Sailors Shanties. J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London. 1921
Weiss, Caryl P., The Liverpool Judies Song Book. Capawa Music, Bala-Cynwyd, 1977.
Weiss, Caryl P., Here's a Good Luck to the Pint Pot. Capawa Music, Bala-Cynwyd, 1979.
Chanteys and Caulking Chants, The Bay: It Makes Us Who We Are, (flyer)
Menhaden Chanteys, Maryland Marine Notes Vol 18, No 1 (loose pages)
Singers Preserve Chanties of Virginia Fishermen, from NPR Web Site (single page)
Jack's Kit or, Saturday night in the forecastle. By an old salt. New-York, Bunce & Brother, 18-- ,(Xerox copy)
HIEV RUND: Das Seemannsliederbuch: Heiko Fenn, 1978, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg
Die Fanfare: Deutsche Volks- und Marschlieder, Adiolf Hoffmann, 1956, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg
Die Seemannskiste: Band 2, 1954, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg
Die Seemannskiste: Band 3, 1966, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg
SANGHAEFTE: "1976" Statens Skoleskib, Danmark
CAHIERS CHANTS de MARINS: 60 Chansons Paroles et Musique Pour Chanter A Bord, le Chasse-maree
Wat lijdt den zeerman al verdriet: Het Nederlandse zeemanslied in de zeiltijd (1600-1900), C.A.Davids, 1980, Haag
Spiewnik, shanties '87, VI OGOLNOPOLSKI FESTIWAL, Krakow
ORSKIE OPOWIESCI: Jan Tomaszewski, 1986, Gdansk

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: shipcmo
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:24 PM

Well now, I'm working on an index of the tunes in the books in my library; e.g.

Drunken Sailor, The (Early in the Morning)(Up She Rises) – Shanties from the Seven Seas(p109-12),
                                                                                             The Chanty Man Sings (words only)(p27),
                                                                                                   Roll And Go(p30),
                                                                                                   Capstan Bars(p40-1),
                                                                                                American Sea Songs and Chanteys (words only)(p612),
                                                                                                   Sea Songs and Shanties(p87-8),
                                                                                                   Everyman's Book of Sea Songs(p57-8),
                                                                                                   Songs of American Sailormen(p78),
                                                                                                   Shantymen & Shantyboys(p48),
                                                                                                   The Making of a Sailor(p121),
                                                                                                   The Book of Navy Songs(p138-9),
                                                                                                   Chanteying Aboard American Ships(p25-6),
                                                                                                   Songs of Sea Labour(p17)

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:37 PM

Jerry-

Not yet but I expect I soon will!

Thanks!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: JWB
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM

Charlie,

Have you discovered yet that the tune of "Dicey Reilly" (sp?) fits the words of Masefield's "Captain Stratton's Fancy" perfectly? A fun song to sing when rum is the libation of choice.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 10:57 AM

From PIPE ALL HANDS, edited by Geo. A. Zabriskie, published by "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, © 1938 (in order of appearance):

Sea Fever by John Masefield
A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield
Invitation by Don C. Seitz
When henry Morgan Sails by Don C. Seitz
The Isle of Pines by Don C. Seitz
Forty Singing Seamen by Alfred Noyes
A Ballad of John Silver by John Masefield
A Night at Dago Tom's by John Masefield
The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" by Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
The Standing Toast by Charles Dibdin
John Reilley as sung by Margaret Rhodes (Traditional)
The Sailor's Sheet Anchor by Charles Dibdin
Jack in His Element by Charles Dibdin
The Sailor to His Parrot by William H. Davies
Mother Carey by John Masefield
The Yarn of the "Loch Achray" by John Masefield
At Sea by Charles Dibdin
Ben the Boatswain by Charles Dibdin
Captain Stratton's Fancy by John Masefield
Credo by Don C. Seitz
The Ship of Rio by Walter de la Mere
The Wreck of the "Julie Plante" by Wm. Henry Drummond
Bill by John Masefield
Burial Party by John Masefield
Walking the Plank by Don C. Seitz

This anthology was privately published and is another labor of love.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 09:19 AM

Jerry-

We'll cut you some slack! Type up the list and post it when you have more time. ;~)

Here's a suggestion to Q:

Secure editing powers for this thread, if you don't already have them, and post a running list of the songbooks that have already been digested as an initial post, and update it periodically. As this thread gets longer it will become more likely that some poor sod such as myself will post an index that has already been posted.

I'm claiming first dibs on posting the index of PIPE ALL HANDS, edited by Geo. A. Zabriskie, published by "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, © 1938.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: JWB
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 10:43 PM

No chanteys in it, but full of sea songs is "Naval Songs and Ballads" edited by C.H.Firth, published by the Navy Records Society in 1908 (this is volume 33 of the Publications of the NRS). 123-page introduction by Professor Firth, 107 song lyrics (no music, but there is an index of tunes mentioned), and notes on each song and ballad. The songs are arranged chronologically, with the earliest dating to the 14th century (titled 'The Battle of Sluys').

Lots of the songs are unfamiliar to me, such as 'The English Seaman's Resolution', 'A Satyr on the Sea-Officers' and 'The Russians Won't Come Out'. But you'll find here 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate', 'The Death of Lord Nelson' and 'Andrew Barton'.

I wish I had time tonight to type up the list of songs...

Jerry

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Jun 07 - 11:46 AM

Q et al-

There are more poems by old-sailor poet Bill Adams that I've posted to his page at the Oldpoetry Website: Click here for website

I've also posted poems by other old sailor-poets Harry Kemp and Burt Franklin Jenness on that same website.

There is also a thread here at Mudcat titled Old Sailor-Poets where I periodically add to the inventory. But the Oldpoetry website is indexed while the one here is by order of posting.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 04:17 PM

Found my Frothingham, 1924 date with brief scores for the chanteys, which came from the Oliver Ditson Company and Stanton H. King.

For those looking for Bill Adams songs, there are five: Stowaway, I've Been Dreamin', Johnnie Chantey-Man, Billy Peg-Leg's Fiddle, and L'Envoi.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 05:34 PM

King had spent six years at sea in the merchant service and another six in the U.S. Navy before swallowing the anchor ca1899. In the '20s he sang some shanties for James M. Carpenter.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM

The finest collection of chanteys and sailors' songs on the net is the large one collected in robokopp. This site is still available, through musicanet.org, but is no longer being maintained. Many midis. A sailors' dictionary is included.
I fear for the future of this source.

http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/shanty.html
Shanties and Sailor Songs

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 02:05 PM

Trivia-
S. H. King was appointed official chantie instructor (1918) by the United States Shipping Board. He was religious, and often led bible studies at sailors' rests.

A long drag chantey, A Long Time Ago, from his "Book of Chanties,? [shortened title?] is on robokopp: http://musicanet.org/robokopp/shanty/alonglon.htm

The date on the book is given as 1918 by robokopp.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 01:50 PM

Frothingham- there was a reprint, which I haven't seen. The 1924 original had 288pp., the music of the chanteys starting on p. 241 according to a dealer's description that I found. The chanteys are reprinted from King.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Lighter
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 01:27 PM

That's funny; the copy I've seen contains melodies for the shanties, which come from Stanton H. King's "King's Book of Chanties" (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1918).

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 09:09 AM

Well, one of the more interesting sea music anthologies that's from the 1920's revival has to be SONGS OF THE SEA AND SAILORS' CHANTEYS, edited by Robert Frothingham, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Cambridge, MA, © 1924. It's generally available on the used bookseller websites and not too pricey:

A Long Time Ago-Traditional
"A Sailorman's a Freeman" by Archie Austin Coates
Abandoned in the Ice by Chart Pitt
Alchemy by Crosbie Garstin
The Anchor by William Laird
Apostrophe to the Ocean by Lord Byron
A-Roving-Traditional
Ballad of New Bedford by Aaron Davis
Ballad of the "Bolivar" by Rudyard Kipling
Ballad of the New Figurehead by Blanche Elizabeth Wade
Beach-Comber by Harry Kemp
Below the Line by William Daniel
Billy Peg-Leg's Fiddle by Bill Adams
Blow, Boys, Blow-Traditional
Blow the Man Down-Traditional
The Boatswain's Story by A. Binns
Boney Was a Warrior-Traditional
Burial at Sea by A. Binns
The Call of the Seven Seas by Kendall Banning
A Capital Ship by Charles Edward Carryl
A Ceylon by Hugh Fisher
Cheer of "The Trenton" by Walter Mitchell
The China Clipper by Aaron Davis
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day
D'Avolo's Prayer by John Masefield
Dash to the Pole by A. Wallace Irwin
Dead Horse-Traditional
The Deckhands by Anonymous
Deep-Water Song by John Reed
Derelict by Young Ewing Allison
The Delelict by C. Fox Smith
The Derelict's Return by Lieut. John Anderson, RNR
The Destroyer Men by Berton Braley
Drake's Drum by Sir Henry Newbolt
"Drint to the Men Who have Gone Ashore" by William McFee
L' Envoi by Bill Adams
Euthanasia by Colby Rucker
Farewell and Adieu to You-Traditional
The Fate of the Good Intent by Overland
The First American Sailors by Wallice Rice
Fish-Wharf Rhapsody by Frederick Manley
Fog by Anonymous
Four Deep-Sea Tars and Another by Anonymous
Freighters by Edmund Leamy
Ghost Ships by Gordon Seagrove
The Golden Vanity-Traditional
The Great Seducer by Cale Young Rice
Green Escape by Christopher Morley
Hail "Tusitala" by Joseph Conrad
Hanging Johnny-Traditional
Haul Away, Joe-Traditional
Haul the Bowline-Traditional
Haven by Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer
Herve Riel by Robert Browning
High Barbary-Traditional
High Tide at 4 A.M. by William McFee
Homeward Bound-Traditional
Homeward Bound by William Daniel
Hoodah-Day-Traditional
"I've Been Dreamin'" by Bill Adams
The Incorrigible by Larry O' Conner
Islands by Richard Butler Gleanzer
The Isle of Otherie by John Williams Brotherton
Johnnie Chantey-Man by Bill Adams
Johhny Bowker-Traditional
L'envoi by Bill Adams
The Landlubber's Toast by Thomas R. Ybarra
The Last Chantey by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Harbor by Helen Ives Gilcrist
The Last Port by John D. Swain
The Last Ship by Glenn Ward Dresbach
The Last Voyage by Norah M. Holland
The Leadman's Song by W. Pearce
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her-Traditional
The "Leviathan's" Three Hundred by Anonymous
The Long Trail by Rudyard Kipling
The Lost Ship by Eugene R. White
The Lubber by Carol Haynes
Mariners by David Morton
Of Mariners by Harold Vinal
The Marines' Hymn by Anonymous
The Master by Charles Buxton Going
Mercantile Jack by Harold Begbie
Merchandise by Anonymous
Messmates by Sir Henry Newbolt
O, Falmouth is a Fine Town by William E. Henley
Of Mariners by Harold Vinal
Of the Lost Ship by Eugene R. White
To an Old Barge by Gordon Seagrove
The Old Pilot Speaks by Phoebe Hoffman
The Old Sailor by Glenn Ward Dresbach
The Old-Timer by R. M. Patterson, Jr.
On First Seeing the Ocean by John G. Neihardt
One More Day-Traditional
Out of the Fog by Dana Burnet
Paddy Doyle-Traditional
Pagan Hymn by A. John Runcie
Penang by Cale Young Rice
The Pirates of Tortuga by Hermann Hagedorn
The Plains of Mexico-Traditional
The Port o' Heart's Desire by John S. McGroaty
The Port o' Missing Ships by Norah M. Holland
Portrait of a Sailor by Milton Raison
Ports of Call by Leo Hayes
Realization by Ira South
The Reefs by Crosbie Garstin
The Remedy by Harry Kemp
The return by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Reuben Ranzo-Traditional
The "Revenge" by Alfred Tennyson
Rhyme of an Ancient Mariner by Anonymous
Rio Grande-Traditional
River Boat by Anonymous
Roll the Cotton Down-Traditional
Rolling Home-Traditional
Running the Eastern Down by Felix Riesenberg
The Rush of the "Oregon" by Arthur Guiterman
Sailing Directions by Gordon Malherbe Hillman
Sailing Orders by Anonymous
To a Sailor Buried Ashore by Charles D. B. Roberts
Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt
A Sailor's Yarn by James Jeffrey Roche
Sailors by J. Warren Merrill
Sally Brown-Traditional
The Saving of the "Cora Adams" by Lewis R. Freeman
Sea Born by Harold Vinal
A Sea Dirge by William Shakespear
Sea fever by Mary Carolyn Davies
Sea-Fever by John Masefield
A Sea-Going Rubaiyat by William Francis Roantree
The Sea Gypsy by Richard Hovey
"The Sea is a Harp" by William Hamilton Hayne
Sea mood by Milton Raison
Sea Song by Charles Wharton Stork
The sea Tramp by Burt Franklin Jenness
The Sea Wind by Berton Braley
The Seafarer by Anonymous
The Seafaring Turn by Ira South
Sealed Orders by E. E. C. Gibbs
Service Stripes by Berton Braley
Shenandoah-Traditional
"Shipping News" by David Morton
The Ships by Thomas Fleming Day
"Ships That Pass" by C. Fox Smith
Sing a Song of Steerage by Christopher Morley
Song for All Seas, All Ships by Walt Whitman
Song of the Derelict by John McCrae
A Song of the Freebooters by Eugene R. White
South Sea Stuff by James J. Montague
Square peg by Gordon Seagrove
The Stalking of the Sea-Wolves by Charles W. Thompson
Storm-Along-Traditional
Taken Ship by Charles Buxton Going
The Tankers by Gordon Malherbe Hamilton
Ten Thousand Miles Away by Anonymous
The Wide Missouri-Traditional
There's Nothing like a Ship at Sea by Harry Kemp
The Three Fishers by Charles Kingley
The Three Ships by C. Fox Smith
Three Tarry Men by Edmund Leamy
A Time-Expired Man by John G. Gartland
To a Sailor Buried Ashore by Charles G. D. Roberts
To an Old Barge by Gordon Seagrove
Tom Bowling by Charles Dibden
Tom's Gone to Ilo-Traditional
The Tops'l Schooner by Kenneth rand
The Tracks of the Trades by Lewis R. Freeman
"Tramp Steamer Standing Out, Sir" by James V. Murray
A "Tusitala" Forebitter by W. L. Werner
"Tusitala's" Christening Ode by R. D. Turnball
The Voyagers by Henry Adams Bellows
The Ward Room Toast by Anonymous
The Water-Front by Anonymous
We'll Go to Sea No More by Miss Corbett
We're All Bound to Go-Traditional
West India Dock Road by Thomas Burke
What ho! She Blows! By Wallace Irwin
Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Cloud
Whisky for My Johnnie-Traditional
The Wide Missouri-Traditional
The "William P. Frye" by Jeanne Robert Foster
Window Song by Nancy Shores
Windows Over Water by Leslie Nelson Jennings
The Wistful One by Abigail Cresson
With the Submarines by Don Marquis
The Wooley by Richard Butler Glaenzer
The World of Ships by Burt Franklin Jenness

This anthology includes both traditional songs, contemporary songs (from the early 20th century), and nautical poetry. Several women composers are included. There are many jewels in this collection, awaiting refurbishing. Unfortunately there is no musical notation. However, there is an excellent forward and full references and the whole anthology is clearly a labor of love.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 07:40 PM

"Sailors Chanties"
P. A. Hutchison. 1906, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 19, no. 72, Mar. 1906, pp. 16-28.
Coll. 1880's

Fare ye well (Homeward bound)
Poor Old Man
I thought I heard the first-mate say
Whiskey for Johnnie
So handy, my boys, so handy
Leave her, Johnnie, leave her
Boney
Blackball Line
Goodbye my love, goodbye
Blow, boys, blow (for Californy, O)
Blow, my jolly boys, blow (Yankee ship came down the river)
Blow the man down
Dead horse (As I was going to Rigamarow)
Polly Brown (Wide Missouri)
Ol' Joe, bully ol' Joe
Marching through Georgia (capstan)

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Dead Horse
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 04:49 PM

:-)

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 02:56 PM

All sorts of songsters went to sea and journals of songs were made by sailors.
How to keep men occupied during days of just sailing in clement weather, or just looking for targets, was a problem; continuous work was not feasible.

Gale Huntington's book "Songs the Whalemen Sang" (repub. 2005, Mystic Seaport), 175 mid-19th c. songs from journals made up aboard sailing vessels, is a partial answer to your question. A second volume is in MS.

Not all sailors were ignorant drunken louts, incapable of speaking understandably, although unfortunately some modern chantey singers adopt this persona.

The old English words (14th c.) chant and chanting certainly would be known to the chantmen, although pronunciation with soft 'ch' was common.
Chaunt already was becoming chant in the 17th c and was usual in 19th c. English.

Humor, of course, is American; they lack humour (read long ago in an English magazine).

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Dead Horse
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 09:18 AM

Are these the books that sailors took to sea with them, so as to have one hand on the rope and the other free for turning the pages while singing for Mrs Colchord et al ? :-)
If so, I DO hope they had a good sense of humour (note: humour, not humor. Shanty, not chanty.)
Nuff said?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Susan of DT
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 08:28 AM

Do you want indexes from newer books?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 05:32 PM

Colcord's book is revised and enlarged from her 1924 "Roll and Go." A good book, some reasonable copies at Abebooks. Also reprinted 1964.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Susan of DT
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:02 PM

Not quite as old:

Songs of American Sailormen
Joanna C. Colcord
1938

Abram Brown
Across the Western Ocean
Alabama
Andrew Rose
A-Roving
Bangidero
Banks of Newfoundland, The
Believe Me, Dearest Susan
Billy Riley, O!
Black Ball Line, The
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow the Man Down
Blow, Ye Winds
Bold Daniels
Boney
Boston
Boston Come-All-Ye, The
Bottle O!
Captain Kidd
Cheerly, Man
Clear the Track
Coast of Peru
Codfish Shanty, The
Constitution and Guerriere, The
Can't You Dance the Polka?
Countersigns, The
Cruise of the Bigler, The
Derby Ram
Diego's Bold Shores
Dom Pedro, The
Dreadnaught (Dreadnought), The
Drei Reiter Am Thor
Drunken Sailor, The
Fair Princess Royal, The
Fire Down Below
Flying Cloud, The
Franklin's Crew
Galloping Randy Dandy O!
Girls Around Cape Horn, The
Golden Vanity, The
Good-bye, Fare You Well!
Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye
Greenland Fishery
Hanging Johnny
Haul Away, Joe
Haul on the Bowline
Heave Away
Her Bright Smile
High Barbaree
Highland Laddie        
Hog-eye Man, The
Home, Dearie, Home
Huckleberry Hunting
Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore, A
In de Mornin'
Jamestown Homeward Bound, The
John Cherokee
Johnny Boker
Johnny Come Down to Hilo
Juley
King Edwards
Lass of Mohea, The
Leave Her, Johnny
Liza Lee
Long Time Ago, A .
Lowlands        
Mademoiselle from Armentieres
Mobile Bay
Old Sailor's Song
One More Day
Paddy Doyle
Paddy Get Back
Paddy Works on the Railway
Persia's Crew, The
Poor Old Man
Retour Du Marin, Le
Reuben Ranzo
Rio Grande
River Lea, The
Rocks in de Mountens
Roll the Cotton Down
Rolling Down to Old Maui
Rolling King
Round the Corner
Row, Bullies, Row
Rules of the Road
Run with the Bullgine
Sacramento
Sailors' "Come-all-ye"
Sailor's Grave, The
Sally Brown
Santy Anna
Shallo Brown
Shenandoah
Shenandoah, The
Sindbad
Sing Sally O!
Slav Ho!
Snapoo
So Handy
Stately Southerner, The
Stormalong
Ten Thousand Miles Away
There She Blows!
Tom's Gone to Hilo
Up She Goes
Whiskey Johnny
Ye Parliament of England
You Gentlemen of England

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:15 AM

Check!

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Naemanson
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:43 AM

You know how your mind works when you are bored. I was driving to work today and thinking about this. It would be easy to set up. We would need to agree to an honor code. Someone else, other than the singer, would have to post the progress. Maybe there could be a singoff at the Getaway.

I'd be happy to host it here but you all have to pay your own way. Charley, you're the expert on writing grants. Get busy.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:56 PM

What, Brett, you can't sing all these songs? Still, wouldn't it be fun to try! And Guam might just be the place for the international, hell, the intergalactic demonstration of who was the bestest of the best for execution!

Why not write a grant so we can all afford to compete?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, who may have consumed too much chardenay

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:21 PM

But, how many of us can sing all these songs from memory. I can't, can you. Would this be a fun challenge? Set a time limit and a place to meet to prove our point?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:48 PM

The Shanty Book Part I, Sailors Shanties
Richard Runciman Terry, 1921
J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London

Windlass and Capstan Shanties

Bily Boy
Bound for the Rio Grande
Good-bye, fare ye well
Johnny come down to Hilo
Clear the track, let the Bulgine run
Lowlands away
Sally Brown
Santy Anna
Shenandoah
Stormalong John
The Hog's-eye Man
The Wild Goose Shanty
We're all bound to go
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

Halliard Shanties

Blow, my bully boys
Blow the man down
Cleer'ly, men
Good morning, ladies all
Hanging Johnny
Hilo Somebody
Oh run, let the Bullgine run
Reuben Ranzo
The Dead Horse
Tom's gone to Hilo
Whisky Johnny
Boney was a warrior

Fore-Sheet or Sweating-up Shanties

Johnny Boker
Haul away, Joe
We'll haul the bowlin'

Bunt Shanty

Paddy Doyle's boots

This volume is online. Midis are included for download.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20774/20774-h/20774-h.htm

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:30 PM

C. Fox Smith permathread- All of the chanteys-shanties in her book as listed above by Charley Noble are posted in thread 85881.
C. Fox Smith Permathread

I can't find a keyword that will locate this permathread.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:30 PM

John Masefield, A SAILOR'S GARLAND (London: Macmillan, 1906). This is a general anthology of sea songs and poetry that includes a section on "Chanties." Words only.

CHANTIES

Lowlands
Storm Along
Whiskey Johnny
Jean Francois
Blow the Man Down
Roll the Cotton Down
Reuben Ranzo
Roll and Go
Roll Him Over
Hanging Johnny
Sally Brown
Poor Old Joe
Tommy's Gone
A Long Time Ago
Blow, Bullies, Blow
The Rio Grande
Sebastopol
The Banks of the Sacramento
The Maid of Amsterdam
Hand Over Hand
Haul Away, O
Haul the Bowline
Runaway Chorus
Paddy Doyle
Leave Her, Johnny

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Rev
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:16 PM

From: SONGS OF SEA LABOUR (CHANTIES)by Frank Bullen, F.R.G.S., and W.F. Arnold, with an appreciation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Swan & Co. 1914.

Two Notes: Notice the use of the "ch" spelling of "chanties" in a British publication. I've always thought that it was more common to use "sh" in the U.K.

Also note that this book contains very little commentary on the chanteys, really only about 13 pages. The music is transcribed by Arnold from Bullen's singing, and the texts are only the first verse of each song, since Bullen claims that the words were usually extemporaneous and that a fixed text would be counter to the tradition.

WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN CHANTIES
1. Mudder Dinah
2. Sister Susan
3. Ten Stone
4. Shanandoah
5. Sally Brown
6. Walk Along, Rosey
7. Good-Bye, Fare You Well
8. Stormalong
9. Leave Her Johnny
10. Johnny Come Down to Hilo
11. Rolling River
12. A-roving
13. Lowlands Away
14. Rio Grande
15. Poor Lucy Anna
16. Santy Anna
17. What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
18. Poor Paddy
19. Oh! What Did You Give For Your Fine Leg O' Mutton
20. Hog-Eye Man
21. Can't You Dance the Polka
22. The Banks of the Sacramento

HALLIARD CHANTIES
23. Tom's Gone to Hilo
24. Hanging Johnny
25. One More Day
26. Bound to Alabama
27. Liza Lee
28. Reuben Ranzo
29. Poor Old Man (Dead Horse)
30. Hilo Come Down Below
31. Boney Was a Warrior (John François)
32. Blow the Man Down
33. Coal Black Rose
34. Whisky Johnny
35. Blow Boys, Blow
36. The Bullgine

FORESHEET CHANTIES
37. Haul the Bowline!
38. Do My Johnny Bowker
39. Haul Away Jo

BUNT CHANTY
40. Paddy Doyle's Boots

SEA SONGS
42. Farewell and Adieu to you Spanish Ladies
43. Lowlands Low

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:01 PM

From A BOOK OF SHANTIES, edited by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Methuen & Co. LTD., London, UK, © 1927.

Introduction
Rio Grande
Sally Brown
I'm Bound Away
The Banks of the Sacramento
Bound to California
Lowlands Away
Bonney Was a Warrior
Blow, Boys, Blow
Whiskey Johnnie
Tom's Gone to Hilo
Cheerly Man
The Sailor Likes His Bottle
Hanging Johnnie
Reuben Ranzo
Blow the Man Down
Billy Riley
Roll the Cotton Down
Poor Paddy
Amsterdam
Stormalong
The Wide Missouri
Can't You Dance the Polka?
Across the Rockies
Leave Her Johnnie
Fare Ye Well
Rolling Home
Paddy Doyle's Boots
There Goes One
Holystoning
The Stately Southerner
The Rambling Sailor

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:00 PM

SEA SONGS AND BALLADS from Nineteenth
Century Nova Scotia
Ed. Edith Fowke
William H. Smith (Chanteys)and
Fenwick Hatt (Sea Songs) Manuscripts

INDEX

Around the World and Home Again
Arriving Back at Liverpool [N. S.] f.
The Banks of Brandy Wine
The Banks of Newfoundland (two songs)
The Big Five Gallon Jar
The Blind Sailor (9 verses)
Blow the Man Down f.
Bold Jack Donahoe (8 verses)
Bound to Rio
The Bounty Jumper (5 verses + cho.)
The Braes of Balquhidder
The Braes of Billquither
Brigantine Sorocco f.
The Cabin Boy f.
The City of Baltimore f.
The Cumberland's Crew
The Desolate Widdow (9 verses; 'Isle of Man Shore)
Fire in the Foretop f.
The Frozen Girl (12 verses; Charlotte)
The Ghostly Sailors (8 verses)
Goodbye Fare Ye Well
Hangman Johnnie
Harbour Grace
Haul the Alabama Bowline
Isle of Fugi f.?
Lay Out, Take Sheets and Haul (Paddy Lay Back)
Liverpool Packet (The Dreadnaught)
The Mary f. (Captain Conrad)
[Mind How You Trifle with a Gun] (untitled)
Old England's Gained the Day
Old Hoss
Old Mother Head's
On the Banks of Newfoundland
On the Banks of the Sacremento f.
On the Plains of Mexico
Our Fifer boy (C. G. Wright)
The Pride of Glenco(e)
The Rambling Irish Man
Rolling Home to Merry England
The Rose of Britains Isle
The Rose of Britain's Isle
The Rose of Tralee
Sailor's Burial at Sea
Sauer Kraut
Say Old Man
Screwing in Song
Shenandore
Shiloh Brown
The Ship Lady Sherbrooke (12 verses)
[The Shooting Star!]   (untitled)
Sweet Jinny on the Mor
Then Turn Out You Jolly Tars f.
Walking in de Middle of de Road
Way Down in Tennessee
We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots
What You Going to Do with a Drunken Sailor? f.
Whiskey for my Johnnie
The Worn Out Sailor (Poor Old Sailor, rare broadside)

f. - fragment. No scores.
Edith Forke, ed., 1981, "Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth Centuy Nova Scotia, The Willian H. Smith and Fenwick Hatt Manuscripts," Folklorica, NY and Phila.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 01:33 PM

SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES
W. B. Whall 1910 & reprints
Harmony: R. H. Whall & Ernest Reeves

INDEX

Across the Western Ocean
Adieu to Maimuna
Admiral Benbow
A=Roving
Banks of Sacramento, The
Black Ball Line, The
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow the Man Down
Blow, ye Winds in the Morning
Boney
Boston
Bound to the Rio Grande
Buffalo, The
Can't You Dance the Polka
Cawsand Bay
Challo Brown
Cheer'ly Man
Clear de Track, Let the Bulgine Run
Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze
Dead Horse, The
Dixie
Doo Me Ama
Early in the Morning
Farewell and Adieu
Female Smuggler, The
Fishes, The
Good-bye, Fare You Well
Hanging Johnny
Haul Away, Jo
High Barbaree
Hog-Eye Man, The
Homeward Bound
Hundred Years Ago, A
Jamboree
Johnny Boker
John's Gone to Hilo
Lowlands
Nigger Songs
O, Fare you well, My Bonny Young Girls
One More Day
Paddy Doyle
Plains of Mexico, The
Poor Paddy who works on the Railway
Reuben Ranzo
Rolling Home
Run, Let the Bulgine Run
Sally Brown
Saucy Arethusa, The
Shakings
Shannon and Chesapeake
Shenandoah
Sling the Flowing Bowl
So Handy, My Girls
St. Helena Soldier
Stand to your Ground
Stormalong
Twenty-fourth of February, The
Unmooring
Voice of Her I Love, The
We're All Bound to Go
We'll Ranzo Way
Whale, The
Whisky
Will Watch

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 12:43 PM

I recently found an old LP of Oscar Brand sea shanties in my basement storage. I remember liking it because the songs were performed in a straightforward manner, with acoustic instruments and without excessive "production." "Johnny Came Down to Hilo," "The Stormy Winds do Blow," "Captain Kidd" and several other classic "chanties"
are featured on this one. By the way, I have seen both "chanty" and "shanty" used by various writers and performers over the years, though I always favored the former as more historically correct. Any disputants?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:48 AM

Q, my copy is unquestionably at least the Third Edition because it includes prefaces to three editions as well as fifty, not forty, songs. If yours contains an additional version of "A-Roving" plus another preface by Hill, it must be a later edition. Such an edition exists and is dated by World Cat to "191-?"

Why Boosey published it as "Revised" rather than "Fourth" I can't imagine.

A more significant issue, however, is the authenticity of the shanty words. Hugill himself suggests that some of them, notably those to "Can't You Dance a Polka?" were written by Davis & Tozer. He thought they were too coy and sentimental to have been acceptable to the British sailors he knew in the 1920s, many of whom had been at sea for more than twenty years.

I'll say it again: Davis & Tozer credit Smith and the ships' officers for "airs" (melodies) and "airs of 'Chanties'" not "words" or complete "songs." And I have to believe that the shanties sung by Stanley Slade in 1950 came directly out of Davis & Tozer - why, I don't know. Were these the words he sang at sea around 1900? I don't know that either.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 08:13 PM

I now believe, after going through several book lists and biblios., that the 'Third' with '50' on the cover (not title page), 'Revised' with preface by W. K. Hill, was the 1906 edition. I consider the authors, and the Boosey editors, to be honest. The 'airs' obtained are explained in the 1906 (?) preface- Here is the complete Third Ed. preface from the edition with '50' on the cover:

"The demand for a third edition, within a short time after the appearance of the second, has induced the authors to add ten more songs to the previous collection.
"The Authors desire to express their sincere thanks to Miss Laura A. Smith- the talented authoress of "British War Songs, &c., &c., - for her kind permission to use some of the airs from her well-known book, "The Music of the Waters,"* and also to those officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile marine who have assisted them in obtaining airs of "Chanties" which otherwise they could not have secured."
*THose who wish to study the subject of "Chanties" will find in this book the fullest information."

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 06:50 PM

Thanks, Q.

Something else to note is that my Third Ed. intro acknowledges Smith for "airs" rather than words. Since Davis & Tozer could not have known the words of such songs without also knowing the airs, should we suppose that they themselves invented the words printed with those airs?

To make it all the more confusing, Bristol shantyman Stanley Slade, as genuine an article as Stan Hugill and said to be a stickler for authenticity, sang shanties for Peter Kennedy in 1950 that were identical to versions in Davis & Tozer. I don't see how that could be coincidental.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 01:02 PM

Lighter, I will post the versions of "A-Roving" in thread 5070, where there are versions, and a link to "A-rovin'" in the DT      
   (keeping this thread for lists).
5070: Maid of Amsterdam

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 12:37 PM

An edition, presumably the first, was reviewed in the "Saturday Review" (London) for Aug. 22, 1887. This is most consistent with actual publication in 1887.

World Cat does not seem to list an accessible copy of the Second Edition.

I see now that Q's "Revised Ed." (for clarity, the "final edition") includes a "Simplified Version" of "A-Roving" (37b) that does not appear in the Third Ed. Q, can you post?

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 11:10 PM

In the Third Edition I have, the number "50" appears on the cover.
It does not appear in the title page, which is "Sailors' Songs or Chanties," and which bears the label "Revised Edition" at the top of the page.
The preface to the Third Edition (not the revised) says "The demand for a third edition, within a short time after the appearance of the second, has induced the Authors to add ten more Songs to the previous collection." This statement suggests that it appeared soon after the Second, possibly before the "1906" suggested above.

The ten additional songs in the Third Edition are credited to two sources-
Laura A. Smith, 1888 (date of 1st. Ed.), "The Music of the Waters, A Collection of Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations. Boatmen's, Fisherman's. and Rowing Songs, and Water Legends." Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
and "Those officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine who have assisted them [the editors] in obtaining airs of "Chanties" which otherwise they could not have secured."

If a Second Edition with 40 songs is available, it could be checked against the 50 in the Third Edition to identify the 10 songs added from Laura Smith and other sources.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 10:56 PM

Q's copy appears to have added the words "Late Captain in the Mercantile Marine" to the title-page description of "Frederick J. Davis, R.N.R." on the Third.

Davis and Tozer also produced a little-known collection of original songs called _Oceanus; or Echoes from Afloat_ (London: Marriot & Williams). The British Library Catalogue dates this as "1914?"

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 10:39 PM

To add to the confusion, my photocopy of a copy of the "Third Edition," which I believe to be complete, does not include the Preface by W. K. Hill. Though the book contains fifty songs, the word "Fifty" or number "50" does not appear on the title page. Nor do I see the words "Revised Edition" anywhere.

My suspicion is that the "Revised Edition" is identical to the third except for the addition of Hill's Preface.

The Second Edition, with forty songs, is dated by World Cat firmly to 1888. The date of the First, which does not appear on the book, is given as "1886?" and what must be presumed as the Third as "1906?" A further edition, otherwise undescribed but presumably Q's, is dated to "191-?"

The "1888" date for the Second Edition appears to be certain, but the correct date for the First and Third and "Revised" are less so.

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 08:52 PM

I erred in referring the edition of 50 songs to the 1887 edition.

To the First Edition were added 16 more, bringing "the number up to forty." Ten more were added for the Third Edition. No dates were given in the Third Edition.
A Preface to the Revised Edition by W. K. Hill, commenting on various publications of chanteys, posits the question, "Is it not rather his duty to set down for permanent record only what he believes to have been the true original of the chanties in the mouths of their best exponents? The Editors of this collection, which has been revised for this new issue, worked upon the latter conception. Therefore those who render these chanties may be fairly sure that, as far as can be ascertained, they are singing the real songs of the sea in their original purity and force."

Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 07:55 PM

My complete photocopy of Davis & Tozer's First Ed. (London: Boosey & Co., [1886]) contains only 24 songs.

1. Sally Brown
2. Away for Rio
3. We're All Bound to Go
4. The Wide Missouri
5. Leave Her, Johnnie
6. Can't You Dance a Polka?
7. The Black Ball Line
8. Hoodah Day
9. Homeward Bound
10. Whiskey for My Johnnie
11. Reuben Ranzo
12. Blow Boys, Blow
13. Blow the Man Down
14. Tom's Gone to Ilo
15. Hanging Johnnie
16. Haul Away Jo'
17. Haul the Bowlin'
18. Paddy Doyle's Boots
19. A-Roving
20. Storm Along
21. Mobile Bay
22. Salt Horse
23. The Dead Horse
24. Eight Bells

The songs are not grouped into categories as in Q's copy, which must be of the Third Edition (1906). Writers for some reason (possibly wishful thinking) have commonly misdated this very much expanded edition to "ca1888."

Subject: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 02:57 PM

"(50) SAILORS SONGS OR 'CHANTIES'"
1887 (1st. Ed.)
Frederick J. Davis R. N. R. (Late Captain in the Mercantile Marine), with music by Ferris Tozer. Boosey & Co., Ltd., London, 3rd. Ed.

Anchor Songs

1. Sally Brown
2. Away for Rio
3. We're All Bound to Go
4. The Wide Missouri
5. Leave Her, Johnnie
6. Can't You Dance a Polka?
7. The Black Ball Line
8. Hoodah Day
9. Homeward Bound
10. Lowlands
11. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
12. Eliza Lee
13. Hame, Dearie, Hame
14. As Off to the South'ard We Go
15. The Golden Vanitee
16. Yeo Ho, Heave Ho!
17. On the Plains of Mexico

Setting Sail Songs

18. Haul the Bowlin'
19. Whiskey for My Johnnie
20. Reuben Ranzo
21. Blow, Boys, Blow
22. Blow the Man Down (14 verses)
23. Tom's Gone to *'Ilo
24. What to Do with a Drunken Sailor
25. Boney Was a Warrior
26. The Chantey-Man's Song
27. Highland Laddie
28. Hanging Johnnie
29. The Sailor's Loves
30. So Handy, My Boys
31. Haul Away, Jo
32. I'm Bound Away
33. Johnny Bowker
34. A Hundred Years Ago
* (Apostrophe in the Contents, but not in the song itself)

Song for Furling Sail

35. Paddy Doyle's Boots

Songs for Pumping the Ship Out

36. One More Day for Johnnie
37a. A-Roving
37b. A-Roving (Simplified version)
38. Storm Along
39. The Saucy Sailor Boy
40. Mobile Bay
41. Fire Down Below
42. The Girl with the Blue Dress
43. Shallow Brown
44. The Ox-Eyed Man

General Songs*

45. Eight Bells
46. Salt Horse
47. The Dead Horse
48. Married to a Mermaid
49. The Stormy Winds Do Blow
50. Farewell and Adieu to You ('We'll rant and we'll roar' chorus)
* (Not chanteys, but popular on the seas)

It seemed to me that indexes to the chanteys in the older books, or chanteys definitely collected before 1900, might be of some value.
Captain Davis gives some extended versions, and some quite different from those usually heard. I will post those for which there are requests.

I will add to this Index, and hope others will do the same.

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