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22 Aug 04 - 06:09 PM (#1253793) Subject: Lyr Add: Robinson's 'Good-bye, Fare You Well' From: GUEST,Lighter (w/o cookie) This is the version of the capstan shanty "Good-bye, Fare You Well!" recorded by Captain Leighton Robinson in 1939. We're homeward bound, I hear them say, Good-bye, fare you well, good-bye, fare you well! We're homeward bound, I hear them say, Hurrah, my boys! We're homeward bound! [Similarly:] We're homeward bound this very day.... We're homeward bound for Frisco town.... Oh, heave away, she's up and down.... Our anchor, boys, we soon will see.... We're homeward bound, 'tis a joyous sound.... Oh, I thought I heard our old man say.... Oh, Frisco Bay is three months and a day.... Oh, those Frisco girls they have got us in tow.... It's good-bye to Katie and good-bye to Nell.... Oh, it's good-bye again, and fare you well.... And now I hear our first mate say.... We've got the flukes at last in sight.... Robinson Recordings
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18 Feb 07 - 09:05 PM (#1972123) Subject: Lyr Add: GOODBYE, FARE YE WELL From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: GOODBYE, FARE YE WELL (Capstan* chanty, coll. 1890s) Solo- Our anchor we'll weigh, and our sails we will set, Chorus- Good-bye, fare ye well, Good-bye, fare ye well, Solo- The friends we are leaving we leave with regret, Chorus- Hurrah my boys, we're homeward bound! We're homeward bound, oh joyful sound! Good-bye, fare ye well, Good-bye, fare ye well, Come rally the capstan and run quick around, Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound! We're homeward bound, we'd have you know, Good-bye, fare ye well, Good-bye, fare ye well, And over the water to England must go, Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound. Heave with a will, and heave long and strong, Good-bye, fare ye well, Good-bye, fare ye well, Sing a good chorus, for 't is a good song, Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound. "We're homeward bound," you've heard us say, Good-bye, fare ye well, Good-bye, fare ye well, Hook on the cat-fall, there, and run her away, Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound! *"The capstan is used in bringing the anchor to the "cat-head," the beam to which the anchor is lashed while the ship is at sea. The anchor is raised from the bottom by the windlass, situated below the fo'csle-deck, but worked from the latter by means of handles which travel up and down." P. A. Hutchison, "Sailors' Chanties," 1906, Jour. American Folk-Lore, vol. 19, no. 72, p. 17-18. "Fare You Well," from "A Book of Shanties, C. Fox Smith, in thread 85881: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=85881 |