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Posted By: shipcmo
17-Apr-10 - 11:57 AM
Thread Name: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index
Re 25 Jun 07 post Naval Songs And Ballads, Firth, C.H., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991.
One of the indexes at the back of the book is as follows: TUNES MENTIONED Admiral Benbow Admiral Byng and brave West Admiral Keppel Triumphant A Fig for France and Holland too A hunting we will go Aim not too high An Orange Arethusa Awake, oh my Cloris Banstead Downs Brave Vernon's Triumph Cannons rore Captain Death Captain Ward Cawsand Bay Chevy Chase Come and Listen to my Ditty Coming Down Death of Admiral Benbow Digby's Farewell Down by a Crystal River side Dub a Dub, or, the Seaman's Tantara ra Duke of Lorain and the Princess Royal Every Man Keep his own Room Five Sail of Frigats bound for Malago Fond boy Glorious Charles of Sweden Gossip Joan Hearts of Oak Hey! For the honour of Old England Hey Ho, my Hony I am a Jovial Batchelor I often for my Jenny strove I prethee Love turn to me I was, d'ye see, a Waterman Iantha Ianthe, I'le go to Sir Richard In the merry month of June John Dory John Duke of Marlborough Ladies of London Let Caesar Live long Let the soldiers rejoice Let us drink and sing, and merrily troul the bowl Monsieur Ragou, or the Dancing Hobby horses Mounseers Almaigne O so ungrateful a creature Our Noble King in his progress Packington' Pound Round about the Hollow Tree Russel's Farewell Sail before the mast Shannon and Chesapeake Tars of the Blanche The Dancing Hobby horses, v. Monsieur Ragou The Husky Night The Jovial Cobbler The King's going to Bulloign The Landlady of France The Lillies of France The Poor Benjamin The Ring of Gold The Seaman's Tantara ra, v. Dub a Dub The Spinning Wheel The stormy winds do blow The Two English Travellers The Vicar of Bray Thursday in the morn To all you ladies now at land We'll go no more to Greenland When this old Cap was New Which nobody can deny
From the NOTES P. 328. Cawsand Bay. Version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton, who writes: 'It was brought into vouge about fifty years ago by a dear friend and brother officer of mine, Richard Creagh Saunders, then Naval Instructor of the Marlborough, the flagship of the Mediterranean. He was a man of poetic feeling, with a pretty turn for versifying, and a good knowledge of music, though no voice to speak of. The account he gave menof it is this: He was staying in the country with an old messmate – I don't think he mentioned the name – who one day gve him some old journals, scrapbooks, &c., to look through; and among them he found this song, which he copied there and then. Of its origin there was no trace. I more than half suspect that he was himself the author of it. The tune to which he always sang it, and which his successors have of course followed, is, he said, an adaptation of an air in Don Giovanni.'