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Thread #163608 Message #3905292
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
13-Feb-18 - 01:21 AM
Thread Name: Any Shanty groups fancy going this song?
Subject: Any Shanty groups fancy going this song?
I adapted this song from a John Masefield poem about Long John Silver several years ago. The John Masefield estate gave me permission to do it and it appeared on a charity album to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Although I've loved Treasure Island all my life - its a song I'm not really confident of being able to communicate to an audience. So no one much has heard the song. The recent popularity of shanty groups has made realise - heres something maybe their audiences would like.
A shanty group would certainly give it a lustier dimension than my weedy guitar accompaniment.