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Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano

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GENERAL TAYLOR
ROUND THE BAY OF MEXICO
SANTIANA
SANTY ANNA
SANTY ANNA (2)


Related threads:
(origins) Origins: Help: Santiano - Any Lore? (22)
Lyr ADD: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna (32)
Lyr Req: Gen. Taylor Ran Away, revisited (6)
So who was Santa Anna? (27)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: The Pooka
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 12:38 PM

ThreadCreep Dicho: ThreadDrift Pooka here. :)

Yeah I figured Col. Crockett must've been a Freemason. But now that I think about it, I bet JFK was in the Knights Templar. (Camelot and all that, yknow... ;)

And now: the Official Crockett Family Website - with the Motto represented right in the address: www.goahead.org.
Turn your speakers on, and Click here


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy An
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:05 AM

Pooka: Thanks for that link! Please note, everyone, that there's a notice on that site about a temporary exhibit about Crockett at the Texas State Museum in Austin, through August 18, 2002. Lots of rare family artifacts and documents, in addition to many items on loan from other museums. Crockett buffs shouldn't miss this. Here's the page about it: http://www.goahead.org/texas_state_museum.htm


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 12:43 PM

An interesting read is Crockett's biography by John S. C. Abbott, in its entirety on the web. Especially worth reading is his Farewell poem in Ch. 11. Crockett
Crockett's knowledge of English was far better then that commonly stated. His "ignorance" was useful in gathering votes at the time, from a largely poorly educated electorate. His letters excoriating Andrew Jackson are masterpieces of vitriol.
At university, I played bridge with one of his descendants, who had a memory which could reconstruct bridge games played months before.
I will post his poem (part of which has been made into a song) in a separate thread.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy An
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:05 PM

Crockett's poem is in this thread: Lyr Add: DAVID CROCKETT'S FAREWELL POEM

Thanks, Dicho!


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Subject: Los San Patricios / Santa Ana
From: SharonA
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:44 PM

For more songs and comments about the US-Mexican war, see this thread: Songs about Los San Patricios?


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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNA (from Burl Ives)
From: Gerard
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 11:25 AM

Here is a version of "SANTY ANNA" from Burl Ives' Song in America; our musical heritage. 1962

"Oh have you heard the latest news?
Heave away, Santy Anna!
The Yankees, they took Vera Cruz,
All along the plains of Mexico"

"Oh Santy Anna fought for fame,
Heave away, Santy Anna!
He fought for fame and gained his name
All along the plains of Mexico"

"Oh Santy Anna had a wooden leg,
Heave away, Santy Anna!
He used it for a wooden peg,
All along the plains of Mexico."

"Bold Gen'ral Taylor gained the day,
Heave away, Santy Anna!
And Santy Anna ran away,
All along the plains of Mexico."

"Oh then we smashed them up and down,
Heave away, Santy Anna!
And took all of that Mexican ground,
All along the plains of Mexico."

"The Mexican maidens I do adore,
Heave away, Santy Anna!
I always want to be ashore,
All along the plains of Mexico."

Note: This is written from memory, there may be a few small differences in Ives' actual version.


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Subject: Lyr Add: PLAINS OF MEXICO and ROUND THE BAY OF MEX
From: Roberto
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 12:33 PM

Six "Santy Anno": sung by Dave Van Ronk; Odetta; Stan Hugill;The Watersons; A. L. Lloyd; Louis Killen. To Whom It May Concern. Bye. Roberto


Santy Anno

a) Santy Anno, Dave Van Ronk & The Foc'sle Singers, "Foc'sle Songs & Shanties - Folkways

Oh shellbacks have you heard the news
Heave away, Santy Anno!
The Yankees took Vera Cruz
All on the plains of Mexico

Brave general Taylor saved the day
Heave away, Santy Anno!
Drove those Mexicans away
All on the plains of Mexico

O Santy Anna had a wooden leg
Heave away, Santy Anno!
Wore it for a wooden peg
All on the plains of Mexico

O Santy anna fought for fame
Heave away, Santy Anno!
That is why we sing his name
All on the plains of Mexico

I thought I heard the old man say
Heave away, Santy Anno!
He'd give us grog this very day
All on the plains of Mexico



b) Santy Anno, Odetta, Sings ballads and blues, Tradition TCD 1004 (original LP, 1956)

We're sailing cross the river from Liverpool
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Round the Horn to Frisco Bay
Way out in Californee-o!

So heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Heave her up and away we'll go
Way out in Californee-O!

There's plenty of gold, so I've been told
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Plenty of gold, so I've been told
Way out in Californee-o!

So heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Heave her up and away we'll go
Way out in Californee-O!

Well, back in the days o' 49
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Back in the days of the good ol' time
Way out in Californee-O!

So heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Heave her up and away we'll go
Way out in Californee-O!


c) Santy Anno, Stan Hugill, Aboard the Cutty Sark, Greenwich Village GVRXCD207 (2000), - original LP: Greenwich Village GVRX 207 (1979)

We were sailing down the river from Liverpool
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Our sails were set and our hatches full
All across the plains of Mexico!

So we'll
heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Heave her up and away we'll go
All across the plains of Mexico!

Oh, in Mexico I long to be
Heave away – Santy Anno!
With a tight-waisted gal all on me knee
All across the plains of Mexico!

Now, when I was young and in me prime
Heave away – Santy Anno!
I chased them Spanish gals two at a time
All across the plains of Mexico!

But now I'm old and I'm getting' grey
Heave away – Santy Anno!
I'll soon drink my rum all day
All across the plains of Mexico!

Oh, I wish I was in Mexico
Heave away – Santy Anno!
Where there ain't no rain and there ain't no snow
All across the plains of Mexico!


d) The Plains of Mexico, The Watersons

Why do them yellow girls love me so?
Way hey Santy Anna
Because I don't tell them all I know!
Around the plains of Mexico

When I was a young lad in my prime
Way hey Santy Anna
I went to sea and I served my time
Around the plains of Mexico

When I was a young lad in my prime
Way hey Santy Anna
I knocked them yellow girls two at a time
Around the plains of Mexico

Them Liverpool girls don't wear no combs
Way hey Santy Anna
They comb their hair with a kipper backbone
Around the plains of Mexico

Oh Mexico oh Mexico
Way hey Santy Anna
To Mexico we must go
Around the plains of Mexico

Just one more pull and that shall do
Way hey Santy Anna
Oh we're the boys to pull her through
Around the plains of Mexico
   

e) Round the Bay of Mexico, A. L. Lloyd, Sea Shanties, Topic 12TS234 (1974)

Well, around the Bay of Mexico
Hey, Susianna!
Oh, Mexico is the place I belong in
Round the Bay of Mexico

Oh, why do them yaller gals love me so?
Hey, Susianna!
Because I don't tell them all I know
Round the Bay of Mexico

When I was a young man in my prime
Hey, Susianna!
I'd knock then little gals two at a time
Round the Bay of Mexico

Them Liverpool gals ain't got no comb
Hey, Susianna!
They comb their hair with a kipper backbone
Round the Bay of Mexico

Them Cardiff gals don't wear no frills
Hey, Susianna!
They're skinny and tight as codfish gills
Round the Bay of Mexico

What can you do in Tampa Bay
Hey, Susianna!
But give them flash gals all your pay?
Round the Bay of Mexico

Oh, times is hard and the wages low
Hey, Susianna!
It's time for us to roll and go
Round the Bay of Mexico


f) Suzy Anna, Louis Killen, Sailors, Ships & Chanteys, Volume 1, Knock-Out! KO-03, 1995

Around Cape Horn we all must go
Way-ay – Suzy Anna
'Round Cape Stiff to Mexico
Around the bays of Mexico

Oh, Mexico, my Mexico
Mexico is a place I know

I love them yellow gals, I declare
With their shining eyes and their long black hair

When I was a young man in me prime
I loved them yellow gals two at a time

Why do them yellow gals love me so?
Because I don't tell them all I know

Them Liverpool gals'll rob you blind
You're glad to leave them far behind

Them Liverpool gals don't use no comb
They combs their hair with the kipper backbone

Oh, times is hard and the wages low
It's time for us to roll and go


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 05:59 AM

I often sing Cape Stiff or Old Stiff for the repeat of Cape Horn., as in that last version. My croud usually pick up every intended and unintended pun and double entendre, but never even a smirk on that one.
Old and going grey,
Keith.


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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNA
From: Roberto
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 09:36 AM

One more Santy Anno:

Santy Anna, Ewan MacColl, in Ewan MacColl & A. L. Lloyd, Haul On The Bowlin' and other chanties and foc'sle songs, vol.1, Stinson Recordings, SLP 80

Oh, Santiana gained the day
Hooray, Santy Anno!
Oh, Santiana gained the day
All on the plains of Mexico!

Oh, Mexico, oh, Mexico
Hooray, Santy Anno!
Oh, Mexico, where I must go
All on the plains of Mexico!

Them little gals I do adore
Hooray, Santy Anno!
Their shining eyes and long black hair
All on the plains of Mexico!

Oh, why do them yellow gals love me so?
Hooray, Santy Anno!
Because I don't tell 'em all I know
All on the plains of Mexico!

When I was a young man in my prime
Hooray, Santy Anno!
I knocked them little gals two at a time
All on the plains of Mexico!

Them Liverpool gals ain't got no comb
Hooray, Santy Anno!
They comb their hair with a kipper backbone
All on the plains of Mexico!

Oh, time 't is hard and the wages low
Hooray, Santy Anno!
It's time for us to roll and go
All on the plains of Mexico!


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: GUEST,Dave Hatton
Date: 25 Apr 05 - 05:22 PM

Any ideas on the chords for Santy Anno - preferably the Spinners version, which I think is pretty akin to the Ewan MacColl version?
Many thanks
Dave


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Subject: Czech version
From: GUEST,jabberwock@seznam.cz
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 07:52 PM

Hi there, all of you.
I'm just lurking around the internet to find about
the origins of this excellent song, and I must
tank you very much for the links and also the other lyrics
versions. In exchance I post the czech version, how It's
sang in my country ...music by Jacques Plante, Paul Durand,
verses by Ivo Fisher, interpreted by Waldemar Matuska (1967)

       Em                      G    D
1. Kdo o sobě chce říct, že je námořník,
          Em      G D
   měl by znát Santiano,
   Am               D       Hm
   bílou loď, co má štíhlej dřík,
          Em    D       Em
   jak ty krásný holky v Saint Malo?
    Em                G   D
Rf: Sem s písničkou a do kola,
         Em       G D
    johohó, Santiano,
    Am                  D Hm
    když Bůh dá, tak už ráno
          Em       D    Em
    kotva žbluňkne doma mu mola.

2. Jen koření od zádi až po špici
    veze k nám Santiano.
    Celá loď voní skořicí
    jak ty sladký holky v Saint Malo.
Rf:
3. A ten, kdo nešel spát, slyší vítr hrát
    v ráhnoví, Santiano.       (orig: ráno ví, Santiano)
    Zpívá si tu, co já mám rád,
    co ji zpívaj všechny holky u nás v Saint Malo.
Rf:
4. Mou přídí zatím dál vlny zmítají,
    ale já, Santiano,
    vidím už, jak nás vítají
    všecky holky u nás v Saint Malo.
Rf:

I realize that unfortunately most of you cannot understand
meaning of those verses, ...so very roughly imagine that its
about a ship sailing to saint malo (which is problably there
only because of the poetry style). As I understand,the song
is in first person (mostly) like the ship was singing to itself,
pointing out specificaly the girls, spice, wind, sailors
and the seas. It is played very quick.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Feb 06 - 08:09 PM

Jabberwock-

I would like to hear the czech version sung some time. I bet it sounds great!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Fliss
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 06:08 PM

We had French students at the Boat Inn Sessions over a six month period in 2004. We got to know them quite well and the one lad Nico sang well. His best song was Santiano in french... while the rest of the musicians sang it in english.

Ive done a trawl for the french words Im hoping that this is the same song.

Santiano

C'est un fameux trois mât
fin comme un oiseau
hisse et ho! santiano
dix huit noeuds quatre cents tonneaux
je suis fier d'y être matelot

REFRAIN :
tiens bon la barre et tiens bon le vent
hisse et ho! santiano
si dieu veut toujours droit devant
nous irons jusqu'à san francisco

je pars pour de longs mois en laissant margot
hisse et ho! santiano
d'y penser j'en ai le coeur gros
en doublant les feux de st malo

REFRAIN
on prétend que là bas l'argent coule à flot
hisse et ho! santiano
on trouve l'or au fond des ruisseaux
j'en ramenerai plusieurs lingots

REFRAIN
un jour je reviendrai chargé de cadeaux
hisse et ho! santiano
au pays j'irai revoir margot
à son doigt je passerai l'anneau

REFRAIN
tiens bon le cap et tiens bon le vent
hisse et ho! santiano
sur la mer qu fait le gros dos
nous irons jusqu'à san franscico


fliss
ps I used the key words
chansons des marins santiano paroles


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: GUEST,Jakkin Wiss
Date: 19 May 09 - 05:36 AM

Heres a version sung by the Irish swedish group dublin fair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5hZxTFUOzI



Personally i stick with the version that the sailors on the East India trading ship Gothenborg sings when they sail. The closest version is this that has been posted here earlier:


From Boston Town we're bound away,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Around Cape Horn to Frisco Bay,
We're bound for Californi-o.
So Heave her up and away we'll go,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Heave her up and away we'll go,
We're bound for Californi-o.

She's a fast clipper ship and a bully crew,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
A down-east Yankee for her captain, too.
We're bound for Californi-o.
So Heave her up and away we'll go,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Heave her up and away we'll go,
We're bound for Californi-o.

Back in the days of Forty-nine,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Those were the days of the good old times,
Way out in Californi-o.
So Heave her up and away we'll go,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Heave her up and away we'll go,
We're bound for Californi-o.

When I leave ship I'll settle down
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano
I'll marry a girl named Sally Brown
Way out in Californi-o
So Heave her up and away we'll go,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Heave her up and away we'll go,
We're bound for Californi-o.

There's plenty of gold, so I've been told,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Plenty of gold so I've been told
Way out in Californi-o
So Heave her up and away we'll go,
Heave aweigh (Heave aweigh!) Santy Ano.
Heave her up and away we'll go,
We're bound for Californi-o.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: David C. Carter
Date: 19 May 09 - 06:08 AM

Fliss:

I just youtubed "Hugues Aufray"Santiano.

It's got to be the same version.

You may,or may not know that Hugues Aufray sings a lot of Dylan songs in French.They've played live together a few times here.

Cheers
David


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: GUEST,Bob Dire
Date: 05 May 15 - 05:36 PM

Does anyone can give me the Bill Schustik's version of Santianna ?

It would be very nice

Thank you


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Lighter
Date: 31 May 20 - 06:55 PM

"The Ocean Herald," 1863, published aboard ship Susan Hinks, Boston, Capt. Atwood, by Rev. Otis R. Bacheler (in Rev. Thomas H. Stacy, "Rev. Otis Robinson Bacheler, M.D., D.D., Fifty-Three Years Missionary to India" (Boston: Morning Star Publishing, 1904), pp. 295-296:


                                          CAPSTAN SONG.

General Taylor gained the day,
Hurrah Santa Anna!
General Taylor gained the day
All on the plains of Mexico.

He gained the day at Monterey,
Hurrah Santa Anna!
He gained the day at Monterey,
All on the plains of Mexico.

Santa Anna ran away,
Hurrah Santa Anna!
He ran away from Monterey,
All on the plains of Mexico.

General Jackson's at New Orleans,
Hurrah Santa Anna!
General Jackson's at New Orleans,
All on the plains of Mexico.

'Twas there he gave the British beans,
Hurrah Santa Anna!
'Twas there he gave the British beans,
All on the plains of Mexico.

(Compare the Jackson stanzas in the current "Fire Maringo!" thread. With a little tweaking they can be sung to the "Santy Anna" tune, but concern an earlier generation. Coincidence?)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Lighter
Date: 31 May 20 - 06:56 PM

>sigh< That should be 1862, not '63.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Lighter
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 03:19 PM

Collected by Herbert Halpert from Blanding Sloan in New York City, July, 1938:

"Sahnty Ahnna lost his leg,
Along the plains of Mexico!
Hurrah, Sahnty Ahnna!

"Sahnty Ahnna's dead and gone,
Along the plains of Mexico!
Hurrah, Sahnty Ahnna!

"My father sang that song. He was a drummer boy in the Mexican War, and that was sung by the American troops."

Sloan's tune is similar to those used today, but not so good.

We can't know whether his father actually heard it in the Mexican War of 1846-48 or picked it up later. Santa Anna lived till 1876.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jul 21 - 11:11 PM

Bringing this up to the top. Queries about songs and lyrics such as this one should take place here at Mudcat (where there is a good chance they already exist) than on the announcement page on Facebook. This database is a great resource for lyrics and is much easier to search than Facebook. Thanks.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: GUEST,#
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 12:03 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4Im7v-d9k

The above link is in answer to GUEST,Bob Dire        05 May 15 - 05:36 PM 's request


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Heave Away Santiana / Aweigh Santy Ano
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jul 21 - 12:44 PM

Leave it to #, he always gets his man!


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