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Thread #159260   Message #3774394
Posted By: Bat Goddess
22-Feb-16 - 07:12 PM
Thread Name: February Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
Subject: RE: February Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
Charlie has posted some great photos at Facebook and Nick has posted a slew of photos at The Folk Revival Facebook group page. Dianne, when I've got a minute, I'll email you some of them.

Don, by the way, met us yesterday at the USS Constitution Museum in Boston (well, Charlestown) for the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime Sing to help represent the Press Room session (even though he had to drive NORTH to Boston rather than SOUTH from NH -- we weren't so much the New Hampshire contingent as the PRESS ROOM contingent.

I've been playing catch up today since I had four sessions (and a sleep deficit) for the past five days.

But here is the beginning, at least, of my report.

The crew (not counting the kids from BU) were me, Hutch, Nick N., Dianne L., Don Hale (Don, you can email me for anyone's last name that you don't know), Charlie I. (Charley Noble -- no relation to Nick), Tami B. (Ranger1), Gail F., Nicole H., Maddie the music major from Bates College, Jim F., Mike M. (who brought the young crowd in), Jeff Warner, and Gail D. and her sister Janice and Gail's daughter listening. Oh, and Dave and Robin from whom Nick rented accommodations in Greenland (no, not THAT one -- New Hampshire).

What we sang --

1. Sailor's Prayer (Tom Lewis) - Linn (Bat Goddess)
2. Fall Down, Billy O'Shea - Hutch
3. Eddystoe Light - Nick & Don
4. Bye, Bye My Roseanna - Dianne
5. Fire Marengo - Charlie
6. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn
7. River Lea - Hutch
8. Farewell to Tarwaithie - Don
9. Stormalong, Stormy, Stormalong - Charlie
10. Isle au Haut - Dianne
11. Nine Times a Night - Linn
12. West Indies Blues - Hutch & Charlie
13. Bold Riley - Nick
14. Farewell to Nova Scotia - Nicole
15. Leave Her, Johnny - Don (that's once... ;-) )
16. Bailey's Mistake - Charlie
17. Combing the Mane - Nick (from John Roberts' and Deb Cowan's new CD)
18. Old Zeb - Hutch
19. William Taylor - Gail F.
20. All For Me Grog - Dianne
21. Drink To the Men Who've Gone Ashore - Charlie
22. Pay Me My Money Down - Hutch
23. Oklahoma! - Dianne & Nick in honor of one of the college students who came in with Mike -- they're attending a retreat at the Sheraton; she was from Oklahoma. Others were from Georgia and San Francisco as well as Boston.
24. Rolling Home - Gail F.
25. Oh, Molasses - Nick (a bit of Boston history the BU kids probably hadn't heard)
26. Shawnie-Town - Hutch
27. Cannery Shed - Linn
28. Bonnie Bunch of Thyme - Dianne
29. Down Below (no, not THAT one) - Maddy from Bates
30. Hey Rain - Hutch
31. Natchez and Delta Queen Race - Charlie
32. Blackwater Bill (poem by Paul MacNeil, late of Newburyport's The Grog; currently living in the Philippines) - Linn
33. Out Along the Bay - Hutch (which he wrote)
34. Roseabella - Don
35. A Night at Dago Tom's (from the Masefield poem) - Charlie
36. Blow Ye Winds In the Morning - Nick
37. A Newfie's a Newfie Wherever He Goes - Mike M. (I'm not sure of the title)
38. Crossing the Bar - Jeff Warner
39. Clementine (but sung to a Welsh tune; in honor of the first song Tom sang in public at age 5) - Dianne
40. South Australia - Jim F.
41. Jolly Roving Tar (but not THAT one) - Nicole H.
42. Maggie May - Linn
43. All Through the Ale - Jeff Warner in memory of Roy Harris
___*__ Here Nick kept notes because I had to head to the Dave Surette & Susie Burke concert. Thanks, Nick! ___*___
44.The Old She-Crab - Charlie
45.The Lobster (By the Wayside version) - Dianne
46. Pubic Hair (parody to tune of"Baby Face") - Dianne
47. Felim's Boat - Gail F.
48. Whale of a Tale - Nick
49. Yangtze River - Charlie
50. Where Am I To Go - Mike
51. Tinker, Tailor - Dianne
52. Seaman's Hymn (Nelson's Prayer) - Don and the company