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Thread #16587   Message #156541
Posted By: Richard Bridge
01-Jan-00 - 09:51 AM
Thread Name: Plea:Pub songs/chanteys for female lead!
Subject: RE: Plea:Pub songs/chanteys for female lead!
The Old Man from over the Sea (very rude, some versions).

General Taylor (just suits the female voice, it seems to me - and if it worries you leave out the verse about "I wish I was Old Stormy's son").

The Spotted Cow (not sea song).

Lady Lovibond (not trad)

A Sailor's life.

The Silkie (of Soulskerrie)

The death of Queen Jane.

Four drunken Maidens.

Sylvie went walking.

Three Score and Ten (speed it up).

Sally Free and Easy (use the first verse as a chorus - gets'em every time)

Johnny I hardly knew you.

The farewell Shanty (set the tune high and put the harmonies underneath).

About a dozen "broken token" songs.