Songs about shellfish

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 May 21 - 06:13 PM

It seems from this that there were until recently Samoan songs to welcome the palolo worm:

http://www.pireport.org/articles/2005/12/01/scarce-â%C2%80%C2%98paloloâ%C2%80%C2%99-blamed-samoan-cultural-slips

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 18 May 21 - 06:42 PM

“Conchyta, Plaut. Qui conchas legit & musculos… Pefcheur de moufles. A muffhell man: a cockleman: an oyfterman: he that gathereth and taketh up fhellfifh.”
[The Nomenclator, Higins, 1585]

Just a quick skim, dozens more:
Lyr Req: Conch Ain't Got No Bone (Blind Blake)
Lyr Req: The Oyster Girl
Lyr Add: I Am a Brisk and Sprightly Lad
(To the tune of Melton Oysters, included)
Lyr Req: Real Nice Clambake (Rodgers, Hammerstein)

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 19 May 21 - 01:49 AM

Morecambe Bay by Maggie Holland. Written as she passed Morecambe Bay on a WCML train.

The 2007 folk song "On Morecambe Bay" by Southport singer Kevin Littlewood, recorded by Christy Moore.

Two songs about the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster on the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England, when at least 21 Chinese illegal immigrant labourers were drowned by an incoming tide while picking cockles off the Lancashire coast.

BALLERINA by Dave Walters

She's hove to again, pulled her head to wind
Drifting to nowhere borne by the tide
Roll on the day when she sails clean away
Her white winding wake to her stern

Chorus
She's a ship without water, a king's ransom daughter
Sailing alone on the tide
She slowly advanced, squared up then danced
The belle ballerina of the bay

A lovely song about a nobby - a Morecambe Bay prawner he sailed.

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 May 21 - 05:42 AM

Dead Shrimp Blues by Robert Johnson

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 May 21 - 08:44 AM

Molly Malone.......... Singing cockles and mussels alive-alive-oh

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: GUEST,Julia L
Date: 19 May 21 - 11:51 PM

Ranger1 mentioned this song by Fred Gosbee. It's on his record "The Ballad of Cappy John" by Castlebay

CLAMDIGGER © Fred Gosbee
   
You think that diggers have a life of ease
You think they come and go just as they please
In the air and in the sun
A peck or two and then they're done

Ho clams! You need 'em for chowder
Ho clams! You eat 'em with fries
Ho clams! I'll be a digger,
I'll be a digger until the day I die

See that old clamdigger in the mud
I guess that digging just gets in your blood
As long as he has kids to feed
His boots and hoe are all he needs

A digger sets his timepiece by the tide
Goes down to the shore when flats are wide
Bends his back and pulls his hoe
Digs as fast as he can go

In wintertime it's cold but still we go
Out on the flats although it's ten below
That onshore breeze is awful chill
If diggin' don't get you the frostbite will

In summertime the diggin' days are long
You get two tides a day if you are strong
Then when you think you're getting ahead
The state man says the tide is red

Red tide means that you can't sell your clams
Means you have to scuttle all your plans
Feed the kids; put off the rent
You have to scrape for every cent

In a restaurant or in your home
Now that you have listened to my song
When you sit and eat your clams
Just remember who I am

Subject: RE: Songs about shellfish
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 20 May 21 - 04:28 PM

morecambe tragedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SRJuzyhvU0

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