ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go

Subject: Lyr Req: Shanty request
From: fi_in_nz
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:10 AM

Hi, I'm looking for the lyrics to a shanty the chorus of which goes:

I never thought I'd see the day
We sailed away for Botany Bay
Heave away boys, haul away boys
Haul on the halliard stamp and go

Can't seem to find it on the net.

Cheers Fiona

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shanty request
From: MMario
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:22 AM

this thread:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=122804

references a page with the lyrics - but I can't get the page to load

MMario

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shanty request
From: KathyW
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:59 AM

It looks like the linked reference you are referring to, http://www.precisionproductions.com/whalers/docs/Shantybook2009Proof.pdf
is no longer on the web.

It looks like the link was to the old website of the Wareham Whalers, which is now located here:
http://www.wareham-whalers.org.uk/index.htm
They have song lyrics on the site, but none seem to correspond to the chorus above.

I suspect that the "precisionproductions.com" link from the old thread was probably a link to the "2009 Festival Song Book" that these folks are selling:
http://www.falmouthshout.com

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shanty request
From: fi_in_nz
Date: 21 May 11 - 03:43 AM

Thanks for getting back to me.... anyone else know this song? I have a recording of it but I can't make out the words well enough to sing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 May 11 - 04:24 AM

Hi, fi-
I made the thread title more specific to see if it will catch the attention of somebody who can supply the lyrics.

-Joe Offer, Moderator-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: fi_in_nz
Date: 21 May 11 - 03:14 PM

Thanks Joe, still no sign of the lyrics though!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Noreen
Date: 21 May 11 - 06:46 PM

I've heard the song, fi, but don't know all the words.

If no-one comes along who does have them, perhaps you could type in what you CAN make out, and we'll try and fill in the missing bits?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: s&r
Date: 21 May 11 - 08:45 PM

Ruth from the shellbacks sings it = i'll try to find them

Stu

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 May 11 - 12:10 PM

fi-

Is the title actually "Haul on the halliard stamp and go"?

Any additional clues would be appreciated.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 May 11 - 04:48 PM

Botany Bay
Don't you weep you Sidney girls
Heave away boys, let her go.                                        
Anchors weighed and sails unfurled,
Heave away boys, haul away boys,                       
Haul on the halyard, stamp and go.
I never thought I'd see the day                                
We'd sail away from Botany Bay;
Heave away boys, haul away boys,                         
Haul on the halyard, stamp and go.

Blow today and blow tomorrow:
Blow away all care and sorrow:

Transport out and timber home:
Across the wide and raging foam:

With a fist full of tin, we'll leave the dock:
You Plymouth girls we soon will rock:

One more haul and that'll do:
For we're the bullies to kick her through:
                                       
Don't you weep you Sidney girls:                        
Anchors weighed and sails unfurled:
Written by Graham Moore and now sung by   The Shanty Annas

Subject: LYR ADD: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go (Botany
From: Noreen
Date: 22 May 11 - 04:53 PM

Thanks Mrs Duck!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 May 11 - 06:18 PM

Excellent!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 22 May 11 - 10:36 PM

G'day fi(ona)_in_nz,

My first reaction was that this had to be 'revival' composition ... and I see that it is the work of Graham Moore.

I'n sure that real sailors know where they are bound ... and especially where the dock actually is. Nobody really sailed off "bound for" Botany Bay" after the First Fleet, in 1788. Captain Phillip took a good hard look at Botany Bay ... and sent his officers off to look for a decent harbour ... and they pretty quickly came back and said the next harbour north was great ... and could hold all the navies in the world!

The destination "Botany Bay" may well have been written on convict sentence details ... and even shipping schedules, for some time ... but they all actually landed in Sydney Cove. I think the persistence of the error can be blamed on singers ... initially the ones flogging penny broadsides on the streets of London / Liverpool / Dublin / wherever ... and then (a century later) on Mayhew's production of Little Jack Shepherd with its version of Farewell to Ye Judges & Juries re-jigged as a 'music hall' song Botany Bay.

Admittedly, in these days of massive container ships ... and the necessity of quick transfer to mass transport ... Botany Bay is one of our major container shipping docks ... but it spent most of the 19th century being heavily guarded against a possible 'back door'
invasion by the Russians!

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 03:50 PM

Richard Adrianowicz has these lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: radriano
Date: 12 Apr 22 - 01:44 PM

The lyrics Mrs Duck posted are good, exept for one line:
"Anchors weighed and sails unfurled" should read "Anchor weighed and her sails unfurled." Here are the lyrics I use:

STAMP & GO
Written by Graham Moore

Don’t you weep, you Sidney girls
Chorus: Heave away, boys, let her go
Anchor weighed and her sails unfurled
Chorus: Heave away, boys, haul away boys
Chorus: Haul on the halyard, stamp and go

Full chorus:
I never thought I’d see the day
We’d sail away from Botany Bay
Heave away, boys, haul away, boys
Haul on the halyard, stamp and go

Shake her out and let her sail
Blow, ye winds, a pleasant gale

All blow today, all blow tomorrow
All blow away our sins and sorrow

Drive her on through the Old Bass Strait
On the open sea we’ll meet our fate

Greener fields we soon will find
And leave these hellish lands behind

Transport out and timber home
Across the wide and raging foam

With a fist full of tin, we’ll leave the dock
You Plymouth girls we soon will rock

One more haul and that’ll do
For we’re the bullies for to kick her through

Subject: RE: Lyr Req-Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: radriano
Date: 12 Apr 22 - 01:46 PM

Stamp & Go is sometimes also called Botany Bay.

Subject: RE: ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: GUEST,radriano
Date: 14 Apr 22 - 08:58 PM

I sent an email to Graham Moore asking for the correct lyrics but have not heard back from him yet.

It occurred to me that although this is presented as a halyard shanty the structure of the song is more like a capstan shanty, what with the grand chorus.

Subject: RE: ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: radriano
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 08:49 PM

I communicated with Graham Moore via email.

Graham Moore wrote ‘Stamp and Go’ for his folk musical “The Last of England,” telling the second part of the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs who were transported to Botany Bay in 1834.

Subject: RE: ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 09:32 PM

tiny little typo in the lyrics above

'Sidney' is really Sydney, where I live!

Subject: RE: ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: radriano
Date: 23 Apr 22 - 12:52 PM

Thanks for catching my typo, Sandra!
My apologies - yes, it's Sydney!

Subject: RE: ADD Shanty: Haul on the Halyard Stamp and Go
From: radriano
Date: 23 Apr 22 - 12:56 PM

Hi Charley:

The title Graham Moore gives this is STAMP AND GO.