143 - Shanandar (Cecil Sharp version) - Halyard Shanty

This version of Shenandoah is given to us, by Cecil Sharp, which was sung to him by sailor Mr. James Thomas of Cambourne. Mr. Thomas said this was often used aboard the "City of Washington", a ship which he sailed to America in 1870, as a halyard shanty. In Cecil Sharp's "English Folk Chanteys" (1914) there are actually two versions of Shanadar, I will only reconstruct the one mentioned by Stan Hugill.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 178).


Shanandar (Cecil Sharp version) - Halyard Shanty


Shanadar is a rolin river,
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