Thanks for the compendium! I was first alerted by a friend who sent me a link cos you look quite like one of my son's.. Now he is weird but it's comic books not shanties!:)


I had got my old Hugill book out looking for more words to 'Doodle let me go (Yellow girls)'which i sang at a Sheffield session a few weeks ago but your collection has sent me back to shanties I haven't sung since I was a lad in the 50s. Not on a ship I must add just as a keen fan of Topic Records and a singer of 'girl pulling shanties' in the newly emerging folk clubs.! How simple life was back then.