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Thread #126347   Message #2866038
Posted By: John Minear
17-Mar-10 - 11:02 AM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Part II 1855-1870

{1858} SEA DRIFT, Hercules Robinson

"Oh Sally Brown, Sally Brown, oh!"
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{1858} OBERLIN STUDENTS' MONTHLY, article by I. Allen

"Jim along Josey"
"Outward and Homeward Bound" [windlass]
"Storm along my stormies" [windlass]
"Oh haulee, heigho, cheeryman!" [topsail halyards]
"Heigho, heave and go" [windlass]
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{1859} "Songs of the Chantey-Man", THE BELLMAN, Captain John Robinson

Maid of Amsterdam
Oh My Santi (i.e., "New York Girls")
Ranso Ray / Huckleberry Picking (two versions of the same song)
Blow, Boys, Blow!
Derby Ram
Dance the Boatman Dance
Old Stormy
We're All Bound Away (i.e., "Heave Away, My Johnnies")
Sacramento
Shenandoah!
The Black Ball Line
Sally Brown (two melodies)
Rio Grande
Sailors Like the Bottle O!
Catting the Anchor (i.e., "Cheer'ly Men!")
Haul Away, Joe!
Reuben Ranso
Poor Old Man
Hanging Johnny
Highland Laddie
Paddy on the Railway
Shallo Brown!
One More Day!
John Cherokee
Bangidero
Galloping Randy Dandy O!
Blow the Man Down
Whisky for My Johnny
Haul the Bowline
Young Girls, Can't You Hilo?
Santa Anna
My Tom's Gone to Hilo!
To the Spanish Main - Slav Ho!
'Tis Time for Us to Leave Her!
Paddy Doyle
Boney Was a Warrior
We're Homeward Bound (i.e., "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well!")
The Ox-eyed Man
Farewell and Adieu (i.e., "Spanish Ladies")
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{1861-1872}SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES, W.B.Whall, (1910), East Indiamen

"Sally Brown"
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{1863} J.S. Scott, London, England,
{1864} James Wright, Leith, England

"Sally Brown"
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{1862} From Rev. Thomas H. Stacy, "Rev. Otis Robinson Bacheler, M.D., D.D., FIFTY-THREE YEARS A MISSIONARY TO INDIA, printed on shipboard during a voyage from Boston to Calcutta.

"Santa Anna"
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{late 1865 (Lighter, 2/26)} ON BOARD THE ROCKET, Adams Robert Chamblet, [as "Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow"]. Specifically hears "Walk along, my Sally Brown" in Genoa, Italy as Virginia tobacco is being unloaded

"Sally Brown"
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{1867-1885} Jack Murray, Aberdeen, Scotland

"Sally Brown"
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{1867} SLAVE SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES, William James Allen

"Shock Along, John"
"Round the Corn, Sally"
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{late 1860's (Lighter 2/1)} Harding, West Indies, British, American and Blue Nose (Nova Scotia) ships
        & perhaps Tobago Smith, West Indies
{1868} Captain Edward B. Trumbull, Salem, MA
{1869} Robert Yeoman, Dundee, Scotland
{1869} Richard Maitland, Atlantic, San Francisco, Blackball Line to Liverpool, Hong Kong, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Scotland

"Sally Brown"
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{1869-1880} SONGS OF SEA LABOUR, Frank Bullen, (1914)[ weighing anchor & flywheel pumps] Bournemouth, England; West Indies, Gulf of Mexico ports

"Sally Brown"
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{1869} THE ARK OF ELM ISLAND, Rev. Elijah Kellogg, (1871)

"Hoojun, John, a hoojun" (hoojun/hoosier/hooker ?)
Isaiah's Song "Stow me long, stow me!" [warping to dock]
Flour's Song "Hilo, boys, a hilo!" [warping to dock]
"Hand Ober Hand" [warping to dock]
Walking Song "Fire down below" [warping to dock]
John John Crow "John, John Crow is a dandy , O!" [halyard]
"Highland laddie"
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