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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: voyager Date: 18 Sep 20 - 04:28 PM reposting 'blue clicky thing' Dave Van Ronk - Santy Anno |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: voyager Date: 18 Sep 20 - 04:27 PM My favorite version here - a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_1Uf9R99zs">Dave Van Ronk - Santy Anno from the Down in Washington Square CD The Smithsonian Recordings - Down in Washington Square fair winds voyager |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Lighter Date: 18 Sep 20 - 01:46 PM Sung by John M. "Sailor Dad" Hunt (1876-1951) in a folk music program broadcast from the White House, May 17, 1934: We’re sailin’ down the river from Liverpool, ‘Eave away, Santy Anno! Around Cape Horn to Frisco Bay, All on the plains of Mexico! [Cho.:] So ‘eave ‘er up and away we’ll go, ‘Eave away, Santy Anno! ‘Eave ‘er up and away we’ll go, All on the plains of Mexico! Back in the days of ‘Forty-Nine,… Those were the days of the good old times…. There’s plenty of gold so I’ve been told,… On the banks of the Sacrament-ho [sic]…. Santy Anno was a good old man,… Till he got into war with your Uncle Sam…. They fought all night, and they fought all day… On the bloody [fields?] of Monterrey…. When Zachary Taylor won the day,…. He made poor Santy run away…. General Scott and Taylor too,… They made Santy Anno meet his Waterloo…. When I leave [this ship?] I’ll settle down,… And marry a girl named Sally Brown. Source: Richmond Times Dispatch Sunday Magazine (July 12, 1936), p. 3-4. Hunt commented, “We had a feller leadin’ the shanty by name McCarthy; he put a lot o’ stuff in it that didn’t belong there.” |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST,Hugh Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:04 PM The 'female pirate version' mentioned a dozen years ago, or one like it, is on youtube here The poster didn't know who the singers were. lyrics: The Navy would never have a lass at sea Away Santy Ano! So I went in search of piracy All on the coast of Mexico And now we sail the southern seas And we'll have those navy lads on their knees CH. So heave her up and away we'll go Away Santy Ano! To Mexico where the warm winds blow All on the coast of Mexico. In Mexico I want to be With a cask of rum on a drinking spree Them native lads I do adore With their eyes that shine and coal-black hair CH. When I was a young lass in me prime I had them Irish lads two at a time But I'll never leave the sea to settle down When I can have a lad in every town CH. Oh the times is hard and the wages low But we pirates must all roll and go * (I'm not entirely sure about the last line) Hugh |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:33 AM THEY MOVED TO GERMANY |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: VIN Date: 15 May 07 - 08:39 AM Reading this thread reminds me of an LP of sea shanties i had years ago by Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart with this song on it. Anyone know anything about or what became of Colin and Shirley? |
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Subject: Lyr. Add: Sandy Anna From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 14 May 07 - 10:24 PM From the Georgia Sea Islands: Lyr. Add: SANDY ANNA Seaman, what's the madda? Hoo-ray 'o'ray Seaman, what's the madda? Hooray, Sandy Anna. Seaman stole my dolla' Hooray 'o'ray He stole it in Savannah Hooray, Sandy Anna. He spend it in Havana Hooray 'o'ray I caught 'im in his colla' Hooray, Sandy Anna. I skake 'im till he holla' Hooray 'o'ray Seaman stole my dolla' Hooray, Sandy Anna. No. 49, With score, for lead tenor and basses. Lydia Parrish, 1969, 1992, "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands," pp. 206-207. Brown Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Sep 06 - 05:02 PM The story of Thomas Adams and his chewing gum is mostly from here: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bladams.htm If Santa Anna had gone into business with Adams, and actually emigrated to the States, he also would have become rich, but he died poor. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 27 Sep 06 - 04:53 PM Mostly true, Guest Jim. Santa Anna, during one of his exiles, stayed with Thomas Adams at his Staten Island home. Adams had failed in several endeavors, and was a photographer at the time (1860's). Whether Adams was already experimenting with chicle, I don't know, but Santa Anna suggested some possible uses for the chicle (gum) from the sapodilla tree. Adams failed with bicycle tires, boots and toys. Santa Anna had provided quantities of the material. In 1861, Adams opened a little factory to make chewing gum from the chicle, and (cliché) the rest is history. Santa Anna was the son of a man who dealt in real estate and mortgages, and seemingly was hopeless as a prospect for business, so he was entered into military school. He was charismatic, and soon rose to command. Interspersed with spells in the military, he was successful in politics, being elected president six times. He was hopeless as an administrator (and a victim of poor judgement in war), and suffered periods of exile, which he endured in Cuba, Jamaica, and the United States. During the French occupation, Santa Anna, fighting against them, lost a leg, but this didn't stop his adventures in politics, the Mexican War, etc. His last exile ended in 1874, and he returned to Mexico, dying in 1876 at the age of 82. Most of the above is out of my head, but I think more accurate information is posted in other threads. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST,Jim Date: 27 Sep 06 - 02:47 PM I read years ago in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" that Santa Anna eventually emigrated to the United States, where he imported Chickle from Mexico and introduced chewing gum, previously unknown here. I don't care if its true or not, it sounds great, so I believe it. (Would Ripley lie?) Anyway, stickler for historical accuracy that I am, I usually sing the usual verses, but always add somewhere in the song: 'Twas General Taylor gained the day Heave away . . . Poor Santianno, he ran away All on the plains . . . |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Sep 06 - 07:21 PM Then there'd the the Full Monty version, Scanty Man. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Lighter Date: 26 Sep 06 - 07:17 PM Snuffy, how about "shandy-man" ? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Snuffy Date: 26 Sep 06 - 07:15 PM Shantyman ... er, no ... Shanteyman ... er, no ... Chanteyman ... er, no ... Chantyman ... er, no ... Schantieman ... er, no ... Shanty Man ... er, no ... Chauntey man .... (to be continued in our next issue) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:26 PM "Spelling accuracy" is a pretty bizarre concept when it comes to sea shanties, which were about as oral a tradition as you could possiobly had. "Excuse me Mr Shantyman, how do you spell that?" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST Date: 25 Sep 06 - 11:02 PM Cape Cod Girls |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:57 PM O! Santianna fought for fame! Away Santianna! And Santianna gained a name All on the plains of Mexico! Mexico, Mexico, Away Santianno! Mexico is a place I know! All on the plains of Mexico! O! Santianna had a wooden leg Heave away, Santianna! He used it for a cribbage peg All on the plains of Mexico! Chorus: Heave her up, and away we'll go Heave away, Santianna! Heave her up, and away we'll go All on the plains of Mexico''' O! Santianna fought for his gold Heave away, Santianna! The deeds he did have oft been told All on the plains of Mexico Chorus O! Santianna gain'd the day, Heave away, Santianna! He gain'd the day at Molly-Del-Rey*. All on the plains of Mexico Chorus He won the day at Molly-Del-Rey, Heave away, Santianna! And General Taylor he ran away. All on the plains of Mexico Chorus O! Santianna fought for his life, Heave away, Santianna! He gained his way in the terrible strife. All on the plains of Mexico Chorus O! Santianna's men were brave, Heave away, Santianna! Many found a hero's grave. All on the plains of Mexico! Chorus O! Santianna's day is o'er, Heave away, Santianna! Santianna will fight no more. All on the plains of Mexico! Chorus O! Santianna's day is gorn, Heave away, Santianna! We left him buried off Cape Horn. All on the plains of Mexico! Chorus We dug his grave with a golden spade, Heave away, Santianna! And marked the spot where he was laid. All on the plains of Mexico From wikipedia. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:13 PM Allmusic.com lists: 18 recordings called SANTY ANNO 14 recordings called SANTIANO 1 recording called SANTY ANNY-O 1 recording called SANTY ANNA 1 recording called AWEIGH, SANTY ANO Here's a Wikipedia article about Antonio López de Santa Anna. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: Bernard Date: 23 Sep 06 - 04:49 PM Only seven years late...!! ;o) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santy Anno / Santy Ano / Santy Anna From: GUEST,Mrs. Capt. Jack Sparrow Date: 23 Sep 06 - 01:40 AM Actually the spelling is not Santy Anno, it's spelled Santianno. (I'm a stickler for spelling accuracy.) |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Apr 99 - 04:48 PM Cuilionn, this sounds interesting. Can you (or anybody) give us more invormation about Victory? Maybe we can find it on the Web, and maybe we can track down some copies of the CD. All I found was victoryrecords.com, which is punk and ska and hardcore music. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Scombat Date: 09 Apr 99 - 04:24 PM Thanks Joe...that snippet on Encarta is such a tease!..I sometimes find myself just listening to the sixty-second sample over & over & over & over &......... |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Cuilionn Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:37 AM I dinnae hae a current address for the Victory Music Co-op, (usit tae be a card-carryin' an' payin' member, back when I cuid afford charity tae onyane ither than masel') but ilka recordin' they've done is pure deid brilliant. They're based in Washington State, an' dae a wide range o' educational projects an' community musical wairk. I ken they've dane mair than ane album o' sea sangs. There's a mair recent ane that may be in print, but--Guid Grief--ma mind is gang blank due tae th' stress o' ma scholarly wairk. I haed nae idea that Encarta had captured a snippet o' th' Victory Co-op's wairk. I wish the Co-op haed a muckle wider audience for th' fine wairk they dae...as a seminary scholar, I'll gie them ma vote for "best religious organization," since th' mere thocht o' their musical offerins maks me feel, weel, religious!!! --Cuilionn |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Apr 99 - 04:26 PM Scotty/scombat - the caption on the "Santy Anno" recording on Encarta says it's from a 1989 album called "Victory Sings at Sea." I think this link will get you to a list of songs on the CD. Unfortunately, the CD is no longer available, or "in print" or whatever it is they call CD's that aren't available for sale any more. That cut sure is a good recording, isn't it? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Scombat Date: 07 Apr 99 - 04:35 PM Awesome!! This may be the version on Encarta '98 that I've been curious about (it's uncredited on it)...well, the first couple verses are the same at least...See Ya', Scombat |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNO (from Hank Kramer) From: Jon W. Date: 07 Apr 99 - 01:32 PM Here is a version I recorded off the radio a few months ago. If anyone has any more information on this artist or his recordings, I would appreciate it. It is a rough, traditional, unaccompanied, full and lusty voiced version.
SANTY ANNO |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Helen Date: 05 Apr 99 - 11:40 PM Joe, I'm shocked, just absolutely flabbergasted, that you didn't believe me **grin** Helen |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Apr 99 - 08:18 PM Hi, Helen - I didn't believe you that Donovan recorded a song about the Alamo, so I looked it up at Folk Music An Index to Recorded Resources. Sure enough, Donovan did "Remember the Alamo," which I guess is the same song by Jane Bowers that was recorded by the Kingston Trio. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Helen Date: 05 Apr 99 - 06:44 PM Hi all, When I read the name of this thread I started *hearing* in my head the song sung by Donovan in the 60's or 70's. The words of one part were something like: "Hey, Santiana, they're killing your soldiers below..(something, something)...So the rest of Texas will know, and remember the Alamo" I've got the album (vinyl) somewhere so I could hunt out the words - I don't think it is the same as the songs I found doing a DT search using the word "Alamo". But I guess this song thread is about a ship. [The problem with being a Mudcateer is that every time I read a thread name about a certain song I keep walking around for days hearing the lines I do remember (which is usually only a snippet) over and over and over.] Helen |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNA From: Arkie Date: 05 Apr 99 - 11:07 AM A couple of other verses not mentioned above:
Oh have you heard the latest news
Santy Anna had a wooden leg |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNO From: rich r Date: 04 Apr 99 - 11:55 PM There's no need to reverse history just for the sake of a good song. All three versions in the DT are historically hysterical. Some believe that these verses were actually composed by British seamen to taunt their American counterparts with whom they had lively competition. There are some legitimate American versions also that more acurately reflect historical truth.
We're sailing down the river from Liverpool, (alt. From Boston town we're bound away)
CH: So heave her up and away we'll go,
She's a fast clipper ship and a bully good crew....
There's plenty of gold so I've been told.....
Back in the days of Forty-nine....
When Zachary Taylor gained the day....
General Scott and Taylor, too....
When I leave this ship, I will settle down....
Santy Anno was a good old man....
Bob Dylan has recorded "Days of 49" rich r |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Mark Roffe Date: 04 Apr 99 - 01:29 PM I heard Tony Sandler and Ralph Young ("Sandler & Young") sing pretty much the version that dulcimer wrote earlier in this thread. That was at a concert at American U. in D.C. in 1966. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Matthew Bram Date: 04 Apr 99 - 10:37 AM I just heard a female pirate version of Santy Anno, which starts something like this:
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Date: 03 Apr 99 - 10:35 AM Hey Rasta let's watch it with that "ancient history" stuff. Those of us sensitive types who lived it prefer the more accurate appelation of "golden age". That term works well in the comic book industry to describe those that cost a dime new. I guess when your music is ancient history, mine will be primordial...they'll need a Rosetta Stone to decipher it.--John |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 03 Apr 99 - 10:35 AM Scombat, I suspect that was "Spider" John Koerner. He had heart bypass surgery last year and is reportedly recovering well. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Scombat Date: 03 Apr 99 - 09:27 AM Odetta did this song as well...also a blues version by a guy with the middle name of "Spider"! |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Lesley N. Date: 03 Apr 99 - 09:24 AM Another historical aside - Stan Hugill speculates that the tune does not concern the Mexican General Santa Anna, but Sainte Anne, patron saint of Breton seamen. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Rasta Date: 03 Apr 99 - 12:57 AM Also-Santy Anno was recorded by --I know ancient history (the kingston trio) on one of their earlyl albums with the late great Dave Guard.---Im not sure weather Dylan did a cut of this song and if he hasent its bound to be on one of his next off beat projects.---rumor has it the Spice Girls may cut it soon.-----In some way the song reminds me of a tune I learned from a Judy Collins alblum --song was called (Bulgine Run) or Black Ball line ---Peace--- Rasta |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Harry O Date: 02 Apr 99 - 08:09 PM Santiana - various spellings. A windlass shanty. One of three work-songs roped in bt whalemen to lighten their pulley hauling. The other two songs popular aboard the whalers were the halyard shanty "Ranzo" and the general-purpose shanty "We'll Ranzo Way". Strangely enough the whaling men don't sem to have produced any shanties of their own. For lyrics see "Shanties and Sailors' Songs" Stan Gugill, London 1969 Hope this is of help. Harry O |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SANTY ANNO (from Woods Tea Co.) From: dulcimer Date: 02 Apr 99 - 07:13 PM Here is a version I got off a tape by Woods Tea Co., put out back in the early '80. I have seen fuller versions and ones that refer to the Mexican War and give the title meaning. This is about a 2 1/2-minute version for popular consumption.
We're sailing cross the River from Liverpool
Chorus
Back in the days of the 49
There's plenty of gold so I've been told
She's a fast clipper ship and a wholly good crew |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Matthew Bram Date: 02 Apr 99 - 06:38 PM I have lyrics to about a half dozen completely different versions of Santy Anno. Have you chacked the databse? Just for fun, here's an extract from a footnote I wrote about Santy Anno in my book: According to The Book of Lists, General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna (1795?-1876) was one of the 5 worst generals in military history. In the Mexican-American War alone (1846-1848), he lost every battle he ever fought! Early in his career, Sam Houston's men caught him in his underwear, trying to escape from the bed of a woman while his troops were being decimated by an attack that came during their siesta!! A dozen years later, he fled a losing battle in the Mexican American War so quickly that he left behind his famous wooden leg, which the Americans found. Soon, folks all over America were wearing little wooden-leg pins on their lapels to "honor" this event. However, this ignoble ending has not stopped us from totally reversing history for the sake of a good sea shanty. In this version, Santy beats Taylor. After all, his name is so much more musical, that he deserves the glory for that reason alone. |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Scotty Date: 02 Apr 99 - 04:04 PM Has anyone heard the snippit of Santy Anno on the Encarta'98 encyclopedia? My neice was doing a report on sea shanties an came across an awesome sample of this tune ...Does anyone know who performed it?? See Ya', Scotty... |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Barry Finn Date: 02 Apr 99 - 11:48 AM Try the DT. Enter [ plains of Mexico ] into the search box & you'll come up with 3 versions. Barry |
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Subject: RE: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Roger in Baltimore Date: 02 Apr 99 - 06:23 AM Mark, Do you have some snippets of verses or chorus. A couple of Santy Anno's come to mind and I don't have that John Stewart recording. Roger in Baltimore |
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Subject: Looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno From: Mark Austin Date: 02 Apr 99 - 03:30 AM The message says it all really. I'm looking for the lyrics to Santy Anno as found on the John Stewart/Darwins Army CD. Please email me on mmaustin@dial.pipex.com Cheers Mark |
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