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Piff Lyr Req: sea shanties (14) RE: Lyr Req: sea shanties 15 Feb 11


I would commend Cyril Tawney's songs, especially the "Grey Funnell Line" and "Chicken on a raft". Barry Dransfield made the most beautiful recording I know of "Grey Funnell Line" on his album "Be Your Own Man". Also check out Ewan MacColl's "Net Hauling Song" and of course his classic "Shoals of Herring". Archie Fisher wrote a fine song about the decline of the fishing called "The Final Trawl": the House Band recorded this on their "Stonetown" album. To return to Barry Dransfield again, the album "Be Your Own Man" also includes his fabulous song about the Hastings fishing fleet, "I once was a fiŝerman" which has become a session "standard" down here, and his latest album "Unruly" also includes a song on a similar theme called "Haul Away" with words set to the melody from Georg Telemann's trumpet concerto - sounds bizarre but it works extrmely well!


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