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Thread #102326   Message #3138575
Posted By: GUEST,JimP
19-Apr-11 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
King's Book of Chanties, Oliver Dotson Co. (1918) is mentioned above, but it doesn't look like anyone's transcribed the index, so here it is, from my copy. I should say that this is just a small pamphlet, and although the titles of these chanteys are familiar, many of the verses are quite different from those currently sung (at least around here - grin). I've kept King's spellings.

LONG DRAG CHANTIES
A Long Time Ago
Blow, Boys, Blow
Blow the Man Down
Bony Was a Warrior
Dead Horse, The
Hanging Johnnie
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
Reuben Ranzo
Roll the Cotton Down
Tom's Gone to Ilo
Whisky for My Johnnie

SHORT DRAG CHANTIES
Haul Away, Joe
Haul on the Bowline
Johnny Boker
Paddy Doyle

CAPSTAN CHANTIES
Homeward Bound
Hooda-Day
Plains of Mexico, The
Rio Grande
Sally Brown
We're All Bound to Go
Wide Missouri, The

PUMPING CHANTIES
One More Day
Storm-Along

OLD SEA SONGS
A-Roving
Farewell, and Adieu to You
High Barbaree
Rolling Home