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Thread #98911   Message #1970056
Posted By: Severn
16-Feb-07 - 03:31 PM
Thread Name: christmas shanty/sea song
Subject: RE: christmas shanty/sea song
One called "The Sailor's Carol", a Gordon Bok setting of a poem by Charles Causley, is on Gordon's album "Schooners" (Timberhead THD C005)

The version that Nowell Sing We Clear sing of "I Saw Three Ships" has the ships carrying "crawns", that is to say the skulls of the Three Wise Men up the Rhine to be kept as relics in Koln Cathedral. One crawn per ship-must've been a union contract, I guess. That one is on "Hail Smiling Morn!" (Golden Hind Music GHM 102)

Of course, there's always "Haul The Decks" or the shortened version of the aforementioned Carol "I Saw Three Ships (In Half)"....