Subject: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 09 Jun 07 - 02:57 PM "(50) SAILORS SONGS OR 'CHANTIES'" 1887 (1st. Ed.) Frederick J. Davis R. N. R. (Late Captain in the Mercantile Marine), with music by Ferris Tozer. Boosey & Co., Ltd., London, 3rd. Ed. Anchor Songs 1. Sally Brown 2. Away for Rio 3. We're All Bound to Go 4. The Wide Missouri 5. Leave Her, Johnnie 6. Can't You Dance a Polka? 7. The Black Ball Line 8. Hoodah Day 9. Homeward Bound 10. Lowlands 11. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway 12. Eliza Lee 13. Hame, Dearie, Hame 14. As Off to the South'ard We Go 15. The Golden Vanitee 16. Yeo Ho, Heave Ho! 17. On the Plains of Mexico Setting Sail Songs 18. Haul the Bowlin' 19. Whiskey for My Johnnie 20. Reuben Ranzo 21. Blow, Boys, Blow 22. Blow the Man Down (14 verses) 23. Tom's Gone to *'Ilo 24. What to Do with a Drunken Sailor 25. Boney Was a Warrior 26. The Chantey-Man's Song 27. Highland Laddie 28. Hanging Johnnie 29. The Sailor's Loves 30. So Handy, My Boys 31. Haul Away, Jo 32. I'm Bound Away 33. Johnny Bowker 34. A Hundred Years Ago * (Apostrophe in the Contents, but not in the song itself) Song for Furling Sail 35. Paddy Doyle's Boots Songs for Pumping the Ship Out 36. One More Day for Johnnie 37a. A-Roving 37b. A-Roving (Simplified version) 38. Storm Along 39. The Saucy Sailor Boy 40. Mobile Bay 41. Fire Down Below 42. The Girl with the Blue Dress 43. Shallow Brown 44. The Ox-Eyed Man General Songs* 45. Eight Bells 46. Salt Horse 47. The Dead Horse 48. Married to a Mermaid 49. The Stormy Winds Do Blow 50. Farewell and Adieu to You ('We'll rant and we'll roar' chorus) * (Not chanteys, but popular on the seas) It seemed to me that indexes to the chanteys in the older books, or chanteys definitely collected before 1900, might be of some value. Captain Davis gives some extended versions, and some quite different from those usually heard. I will post those for which there are requests. I will add to this Index, and hope others will do the same. Shipcmo's Sea Song Tunes Index |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 09 Jun 07 - 07:55 PM My complete photocopy of Davis & Tozer's First Ed. (London: Boosey & Co., [1886]) contains only 24 songs. 1. Sally Brown 2. Away for Rio 3. We're All Bound to Go 4. The Wide Missouri 5. Leave Her, Johnnie 6. Can't You Dance a Polka? 7. The Black Ball Line 8. Hoodah Day 9. Homeward Bound 10. Whiskey for My Johnnie 11. Reuben Ranzo 12. Blow Boys, Blow 13. Blow the Man Down 14. Tom's Gone to Ilo 15. Hanging Johnnie 16. Haul Away Jo' 17. Haul the Bowlin' 18. Paddy Doyle's Boots 19. A-Roving 20. Storm Along 21. Mobile Bay 22. Salt Horse 23. The Dead Horse 24. Eight Bells The songs are not grouped into categories as in Q's copy, which must be of the Third Edition (1906). Writers for some reason (possibly wishful thinking) have commonly misdated this very much expanded edition to "ca1888." |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 09 Jun 07 - 08:52 PM I erred in referring the edition of 50 songs to the 1887 edition. To the First Edition were added 16 more, bringing "the number up to forty." Ten more were added for the Third Edition. No dates were given in the Third Edition. A Preface to the Revised Edition by W. K. Hill, commenting on various publications of chanteys, posits the question, "Is it not rather his duty to set down for permanent record only what he believes to have been the true original of the chanties in the mouths of their best exponents? The Editors of this collection, which has been revised for this new issue, worked upon the latter conception. Therefore those who render these chanties may be fairly sure that, as far as can be ascertained, they are singing the real songs of the sea in their original purity and force." |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 09 Jun 07 - 10:39 PM To add to the confusion, my photocopy of a copy of the "Third Edition," which I believe to be complete, does not include the Preface by W. K. Hill. Though the book contains fifty songs, the word "Fifty" or number "50" does not appear on the title page. Nor do I see the words "Revised Edition" anywhere. My suspicion is that the "Revised Edition" is identical to the third except for the addition of Hill's Preface. The Second Edition, with forty songs, is dated by World Cat firmly to 1888. The date of the First, which does not appear on the book, is given as "1886?" and what must be presumed as the Third as "1906?" A further edition, otherwise undescribed but presumably Q's, is dated to "191-?" The "1888" date for the Second Edition appears to be certain, but the correct date for the First and Third and "Revised" are less so. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 09 Jun 07 - 10:56 PM Q's copy appears to have added the words "Late Captain in the Mercantile Marine" to the title-page description of "Frederick J. Davis, R.N.R." on the Third. Davis and Tozer also produced a little-known collection of original songs called _Oceanus; or Echoes from Afloat_ (London: Marriot & Williams). The British Library Catalogue dates this as "1914?" |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 09 Jun 07 - 11:10 PM In the Third Edition I have, the number "50" appears on the cover. It does not appear in the title page, which is "Sailors' Songs or Chanties," and which bears the label "Revised Edition" at the top of the page. The preface to the Third Edition (not the revised) says "The demand for a third edition, within a short time after the appearance of the second, has induced the Authors to add ten more Songs to the previous collection." This statement suggests that it appeared soon after the Second, possibly before the "1906" suggested above. The ten additional songs in the Third Edition are credited to two sources- Laura A. Smith, 1888 (date of 1st. Ed.), "The Music of the Waters, A Collection of Sailors' Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations. Boatmen's, Fisherman's. and Rowing Songs, and Water Legends." Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. and "Those officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine who have assisted them [the editors] in obtaining airs of "Chanties" which otherwise they could not have secured." If a Second Edition with 40 songs is available, it could be checked against the 50 in the Third Edition to identify the 10 songs added from Laura Smith and other sources. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 10 Jun 07 - 12:37 PM An edition, presumably the first, was reviewed in the "Saturday Review" (London) for Aug. 22, 1887. This is most consistent with actual publication in 1887. World Cat does not seem to list an accessible copy of the Second Edition. I see now that Q's "Revised Ed." (for clarity, the "final edition") includes a "Simplified Version" of "A-Roving" (37b) that does not appear in the Third Ed. Q, can you post? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Jun 07 - 01:02 PM Lighter, I will post the versions of "A-Roving" in thread 5070, where there are versions, and a link to "A-rovin'" in the DT (keeping this thread for lists). 5070: Maid of Amsterdam |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 10 Jun 07 - 06:50 PM Thanks, Q. Something else to note is that my Third Ed. intro acknowledges Smith for "airs" rather than words. Since Davis & Tozer could not have known the words of such songs without also knowing the airs, should we suppose that they themselves invented the words printed with those airs? To make it all the more confusing, Bristol shantyman Stanley Slade, as genuine an article as Stan Hugill and said to be a stickler for authenticity, sang shanties for Peter Kennedy in 1950 that were identical to versions in Davis & Tozer. I don't see how that could be coincidental. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 10 Jun 07 - 08:13 PM I now believe, after going through several book lists and biblios., that the 'Third' with '50' on the cover (not title page), 'Revised' with preface by W. K. Hill, was the 1906 edition. I consider the authors, and the Boosey editors, to be honest. The 'airs' obtained are explained in the 1906 (?) preface- Here is the complete Third Ed. preface from the edition with '50' on the cover: "The demand for a third edition, within a short time after the appearance of the second, has induced the authors to add ten more songs to the previous collection. "The Authors desire to express their sincere thanks to Miss Laura A. Smith- the talented authoress of "British War Songs, &c., &c., - for her kind permission to use some of the airs from her well-known book, "The Music of the Waters,"* and also to those officers of the Royal Navy and Mercantile marine who have assisted them in obtaining airs of "Chanties" which otherwise they could not have secured." *THose who wish to study the subject of "Chanties" will find in this book the fullest information." |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:48 AM Q, my copy is unquestionably at least the Third Edition because it includes prefaces to three editions as well as fifty, not forty, songs. If yours contains an additional version of "A-Roving" plus another preface by Hill, it must be a later edition. Such an edition exists and is dated by World Cat to "191-?" Why Boosey published it as "Revised" rather than "Fourth" I can't imagine. A more significant issue, however, is the authenticity of the shanty words. Hugill himself suggests that some of them, notably those to "Can't You Dance a Polka?" were written by Davis & Tozer. He thought they were too coy and sentimental to have been acceptable to the British sailors he knew in the 1920s, many of whom had been at sea for more than twenty years. I'll say it again: Davis & Tozer credit Smith and the ships' officers for "airs" (melodies) and "airs of 'Chanties'" not "words" or complete "songs." And I have to believe that the shanties sung by Stanley Slade in 1950 came directly out of Davis & Tozer - why, I don't know. Were these the words he sang at sea around 1900? I don't know that either. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 11 Jun 07 - 12:43 PM I recently found an old LP of Oscar Brand sea shanties in my basement storage. I remember liking it because the songs were performed in a straightforward manner, with acoustic instruments and without excessive "production." "Johnny Came Down to Hilo," "The Stormy Winds do Blow," "Captain Kidd" and several other classic "chanties" are featured on this one. By the way, I have seen both "chanty" and "shanty" used by various writers and performers over the years, though I always favored the former as more historically correct. Any disputants? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Jun 07 - 01:33 PM SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES W. B. Whall 1910 & reprints Harmony: R. H. Whall & Ernest Reeves INDEX Across the Western Ocean Adieu to Maimuna Admiral Benbow A=Roving Banks of Sacramento, The Black Ball Line, The Blow, Boys, Blow Blow the Man Down Blow, ye Winds in the Morning Boney Boston Bound to the Rio Grande Buffalo, The Can't You Dance the Polka Cawsand Bay Challo Brown Cheer'ly Man Clear de Track, Let the Bulgine Run Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze Dead Horse, The Dixie Doo Me Ama Early in the Morning Farewell and Adieu Female Smuggler, The Fishes, The Good-bye, Fare You Well Hanging Johnny Haul Away, Jo High Barbaree Hog-Eye Man, The Homeward Bound Hundred Years Ago, A Jamboree Johnny Boker John's Gone to Hilo Lowlands Nigger Songs O, Fare you well, My Bonny Young Girls One More Day Paddy Doyle Plains of Mexico, The Poor Paddy who works on the Railway Reuben Ranzo Rolling Home Run, Let the Bulgine Run Sally Brown Saucy Arethusa, The Shakings Shannon and Chesapeake Shenandoah Sling the Flowing Bowl So Handy, My Girls St. Helena Soldier Stand to your Ground Stormalong Twenty-fourth of February, The Unmooring Voice of Her I Love, The We're All Bound to Go We'll Ranzo Way Whale, The Whisky Will Watch |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:00 PM SEA SONGS AND BALLADS from Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia Ed. Edith Fowke William H. Smith (Chanteys)and Fenwick Hatt (Sea Songs) Manuscripts INDEX Around the World and Home Again Arriving Back at Liverpool [N. S.] f. The Banks of Brandy Wine The Banks of Newfoundland (two songs) The Big Five Gallon Jar The Blind Sailor (9 verses) Blow the Man Down f. Bold Jack Donahoe (8 verses) Bound to Rio The Bounty Jumper (5 verses + cho.) The Braes of Balquhidder The Braes of Billquither Brigantine Sorocco f. The Cabin Boy f. The City of Baltimore f. The Cumberland's Crew The Desolate Widdow (9 verses; 'Isle of Man Shore) Fire in the Foretop f. The Frozen Girl (12 verses; Charlotte) The Ghostly Sailors (8 verses) Goodbye Fare Ye Well Hangman Johnnie Harbour Grace Haul the Alabama Bowline Isle of Fugi f.? Lay Out, Take Sheets and Haul (Paddy Lay Back) Liverpool Packet (The Dreadnaught) The Mary f. (Captain Conrad) [Mind How You Trifle with a Gun] (untitled) Old England's Gained the Day Old Hoss Old Mother Head's On the Banks of Newfoundland On the Banks of the Sacremento f. On the Plains of Mexico Our Fifer boy (C. G. Wright) The Pride of Glenco(e) The Rambling Irish Man Rolling Home to Merry England The Rose of Britains Isle The Rose of Britain's Isle The Rose of Tralee Sailor's Burial at Sea Sauer Kraut Say Old Man Screwing in Song Shenandore Shiloh Brown The Ship Lady Sherbrooke (12 verses) [The Shooting Star!] (untitled) Sweet Jinny on the Mor Then Turn Out You Jolly Tars f. Walking in de Middle of de Road Way Down in Tennessee We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots What You Going to Do with a Drunken Sailor? f. Whiskey for my Johnnie The Worn Out Sailor (Poor Old Sailor, rare broadside) f. - fragment. No scores. Edith Forke, ed., 1981, "Sea Songs and Ballads from Nineteenth Centuy Nova Scotia, The Willian H. Smith and Fenwick Hatt Manuscripts," Folklorica, NY and Phila. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:01 PM From A BOOK OF SHANTIES, edited by Cicely Fox Smith, published by Methuen & Co. LTD., London, UK, © 1927. Introduction Rio Grande Sally Brown I'm Bound Away The Banks of the Sacramento Bound to California Lowlands Away Bonney Was a Warrior Blow, Boys, Blow Whiskey Johnnie Tom's Gone to Hilo Cheerly Man The Sailor Likes His Bottle Hanging Johnnie Reuben Ranzo Blow the Man Down Billy Riley Roll the Cotton Down Poor Paddy Amsterdam Stormalong The Wide Missouri Can't You Dance the Polka? Across the Rockies Leave Her Johnnie Fare Ye Well Rolling Home Paddy Doyle's Boots There Goes One Holystoning The Stately Southerner The Rambling Sailor Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Rev Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:16 PM From: SONGS OF SEA LABOUR (CHANTIES)by Frank Bullen, F.R.G.S., and W.F. Arnold, with an appreciation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. London: Swan & Co. 1914. Two Notes: Notice the use of the "ch" spelling of "chanties" in a British publication. I've always thought that it was more common to use "sh" in the U.K. Also note that this book contains very little commentary on the chanteys, really only about 13 pages. The music is transcribed by Arnold from Bullen's singing, and the texts are only the first verse of each song, since Bullen claims that the words were usually extemporaneous and that a fixed text would be counter to the tradition. WINDLASS AND CAPSTAN CHANTIES 1. Mudder Dinah 2. Sister Susan 3. Ten Stone 4. Shanandoah 5. Sally Brown 6. Walk Along, Rosey 7. Good-Bye, Fare You Well 8. Stormalong 9. Leave Her Johnny 10. Johnny Come Down to Hilo 11. Rolling River 12. A-roving 13. Lowlands Away 14. Rio Grande 15. Poor Lucy Anna 16. Santy Anna 17. What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor 18. Poor Paddy 19. Oh! What Did You Give For Your Fine Leg O' Mutton 20. Hog-Eye Man 21. Can't You Dance the Polka 22. The Banks of the Sacramento HALLIARD CHANTIES 23. Tom's Gone to Hilo 24. Hanging Johnny 25. One More Day 26. Bound to Alabama 27. Liza Lee 28. Reuben Ranzo 29. Poor Old Man (Dead Horse) 30. Hilo Come Down Below 31. Boney Was a Warrior (John François) 32. Blow the Man Down 33. Coal Black Rose 34. Whisky Johnny 35. Blow Boys, Blow 36. The Bullgine FORESHEET CHANTIES 37. Haul the Bowline! 38. Do My Johnny Bowker 39. Haul Away Jo BUNT CHANTY 40. Paddy Doyle's Boots SEA SONGS 42. Farewell and Adieu to you Spanish Ladies 43. Lowlands Low |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:30 PM John Masefield, A SAILOR'S GARLAND (London: Macmillan, 1906). This is a general anthology of sea songs and poetry that includes a section on "Chanties." Words only. CHANTIES Lowlands Storm Along Whiskey Johnny Jean Francois Blow the Man Down Roll the Cotton Down Reuben Ranzo Roll and Go Roll Him Over Hanging Johnny Sally Brown Poor Old Joe Tommy's Gone A Long Time Ago Blow, Bullies, Blow The Rio Grande Sebastopol The Banks of the Sacramento The Maid of Amsterdam Hand Over Hand Haul Away, O Haul the Bowline Runaway Chorus Paddy Doyle Leave Her, Johnny |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:30 PM C. Fox Smith permathread- All of the chanteys-shanties in her book as listed above by Charley Noble are posted in thread 85881. C. Fox Smith Permathread I can't find a keyword that will locate this permathread. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:48 PM The Shanty Book Part I, Sailors Shanties Richard Runciman Terry, 1921 J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London Windlass and Capstan Shanties Bily Boy Bound for the Rio Grande Good-bye, fare ye well Johnny come down to Hilo Clear the track, let the Bulgine run Lowlands away Sally Brown Santy Anna Shenandoah Stormalong John The Hog's-eye Man The Wild Goose Shanty We're all bound to go What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Halliard Shanties Blow, my bully boys Blow the man down Cleer'ly, men Good morning, ladies all Hanging Johnny Hilo Somebody Oh run, let the Bullgine run Reuben Ranzo The Dead Horse Tom's gone to Hilo Whisky Johnny Boney was a warrior Fore-Sheet or Sweating-up Shanties Johnny Boker Haul away, Joe We'll haul the bowlin' Bunt Shanty Paddy Doyle's boots This volume is online. Midis are included for download. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20774/20774-h/20774-h.htm |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Naemanson Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:21 PM But, how many of us can sing all these songs from memory. I can't, can you. Would this be a fun challenge? Set a time limit and a place to meet to prove our point? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:56 PM What, Brett, you can't sing all these songs? Still, wouldn't it be fun to try! And Guam might just be the place for the international, hell, the intergalactic demonstration of who was the bestest of the best for execution! Why not write a grant so we can all afford to compete? Cheerily, Charley Noble, who may have consumed too much chardenay |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Naemanson Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:43 AM You know how your mind works when you are bored. I was driving to work today and thinking about this. It would be easy to set up. We would need to agree to an honor code. Someone else, other than the singer, would have to post the progress. Maybe there could be a singoff at the Getaway. I'd be happy to host it here but you all have to pay your own way. Charley, you're the expert on writing grants. Get busy. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:15 AM Check! |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Susan of DT Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:02 PM Not quite as old: Songs of American Sailormen Joanna C. Colcord 1938 Abram Brown Across the Western Ocean Alabama Andrew Rose A-Roving Bangidero Banks of Newfoundland, The Believe Me, Dearest Susan Billy Riley, O! Black Ball Line, The Blow, Boys, Blow Blow the Man Down Blow, Ye Winds Bold Daniels Boney Boston Boston Come-All-Ye, The Bottle O! Captain Kidd Cheerly, Man Clear the Track Coast of Peru Codfish Shanty, The Constitution and Guerriere, The Can't You Dance the Polka? Countersigns, The Cruise of the Bigler, The Derby Ram Diego's Bold Shores Dom Pedro, The Dreadnaught (Dreadnought), The Drei Reiter Am Thor Drunken Sailor, The Fair Princess Royal, The Fire Down Below Flying Cloud, The Franklin's Crew Galloping Randy Dandy O! Girls Around Cape Horn, The Golden Vanity, The Good-bye, Fare You Well! Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye Greenland Fishery Hanging Johnny Haul Away, Joe Haul on the Bowline Heave Away Her Bright Smile High Barbaree Highland Laddie Hog-eye Man, The Home, Dearie, Home Huckleberry Hunting Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore, A In de Mornin' Jamestown Homeward Bound, The John Cherokee Johnny Boker Johnny Come Down to Hilo Juley King Edwards Lass of Mohea, The Leave Her, Johnny Liza Lee Long Time Ago, A . Lowlands Mademoiselle from Armentieres Mobile Bay Old Sailor's Song One More Day Paddy Doyle Paddy Get Back Paddy Works on the Railway Persia's Crew, The Poor Old Man Retour Du Marin, Le Reuben Ranzo Rio Grande River Lea, The Rocks in de Mountens Roll the Cotton Down Rolling Down to Old Maui Rolling King Round the Corner Row, Bullies, Row Rules of the Road Run with the Bullgine Sacramento Sailors' "Come-all-ye" Sailor's Grave, The Sally Brown Santy Anna Shallo Brown Shenandoah Shenandoah, The Sindbad Sing Sally O! Slav Ho! Snapoo So Handy Stately Southerner, The Stormalong Ten Thousand Miles Away There She Blows! Tom's Gone to Hilo Up She Goes Whiskey Johnny Ye Parliament of England You Gentlemen of England |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 13 Jun 07 - 05:32 PM Colcord's book is revised and enlarged from her 1924 "Roll and Go." A good book, some reasonable copies at Abebooks. Also reprinted 1964. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Susan of DT Date: 14 Jun 07 - 08:28 AM Do you want indexes from newer books? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Dead Horse Date: 14 Jun 07 - 09:18 AM Are these the books that sailors took to sea with them, so as to have one hand on the rope and the other free for turning the pages while singing for Mrs Colchord et al ? :-) If so, I DO hope they had a good sense of humour (note: humour, not humor. Shanty, not chanty.) Nuff said? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 14 Jun 07 - 02:56 PM All sorts of songsters went to sea and journals of songs were made by sailors. How to keep men occupied during days of just sailing in clement weather, or just looking for targets, was a problem; continuous work was not feasible. Gale Huntington's book "Songs the Whalemen Sang" (repub. 2005, Mystic Seaport), 175 mid-19th c. songs from journals made up aboard sailing vessels, is a partial answer to your question. A second volume is in MS. Not all sailors were ignorant drunken louts, incapable of speaking understandably, although unfortunately some modern chantey singers adopt this persona. The old English words (14th c.) chant and chanting certainly would be known to the chantmen, although pronunciation with soft 'ch' was common. Chaunt already was becoming chant in the 17th c and was usual in 19th c. English. Humor, of course, is American; they lack humour (read long ago in an English magazine). |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Dead Horse Date: 14 Jun 07 - 04:49 PM :-) |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 14 Jun 07 - 07:40 PM "Sailors Chanties" P. A. Hutchison. 1906, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 19, no. 72, Mar. 1906, pp. 16-28. Coll. 1880's Fare ye well (Homeward bound) Poor Old Man I thought I heard the first-mate say Whiskey for Johnnie So handy, my boys, so handy Leave her, Johnnie, leave her Boney Blackball Line Goodbye my love, goodbye Blow, boys, blow (for Californy, O) Blow, my jolly boys, blow (Yankee ship came down the river) Blow the man down Dead horse (As I was going to Rigamarow) Polly Brown (Wide Missouri) Ol' Joe, bully ol' Joe Marching through Georgia (capstan) |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 15 Jun 07 - 09:09 AM Well, one of the more interesting sea music anthologies that's from the 1920's revival has to be SONGS OF THE SEA AND SAILORS' CHANTEYS, edited by Robert Frothingham, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Cambridge, MA, © 1924. It's generally available on the used bookseller websites and not too pricey: A Long Time Ago-Traditional "A Sailorman's a Freeman" by Archie Austin Coates Abandoned in the Ice by Chart Pitt Alchemy by Crosbie Garstin The Anchor by William Laird Apostrophe to the Ocean by Lord Byron A-Roving-Traditional Ballad of New Bedford by Aaron Davis Ballad of the "Bolivar" by Rudyard Kipling Ballad of the New Figurehead by Blanche Elizabeth Wade Beach-Comber by Harry Kemp Below the Line by William Daniel Billy Peg-Leg's Fiddle by Bill Adams Blow, Boys, Blow-Traditional Blow the Man Down-Traditional The Boatswain's Story by A. Binns Boney Was a Warrior-Traditional Burial at Sea by A. Binns The Call of the Seven Seas by Kendall Banning A Capital Ship by Charles Edward Carryl A Ceylon by Hugh Fisher Cheer of "The Trenton" by Walter Mitchell The China Clipper by Aaron Davis The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day D'Avolo's Prayer by John Masefield Dash to the Pole by A. Wallace Irwin Dead Horse-Traditional The Deckhands by Anonymous Deep-Water Song by John Reed Derelict by Young Ewing Allison The Delelict by C. Fox Smith The Derelict's Return by Lieut. John Anderson, RNR The Destroyer Men by Berton Braley Drake's Drum by Sir Henry Newbolt "Drint to the Men Who have Gone Ashore" by William McFee L' Envoi by Bill Adams Euthanasia by Colby Rucker Farewell and Adieu to You-Traditional The Fate of the Good Intent by Overland The First American Sailors by Wallice Rice Fish-Wharf Rhapsody by Frederick Manley Fog by Anonymous Four Deep-Sea Tars and Another by Anonymous Freighters by Edmund Leamy Ghost Ships by Gordon Seagrove The Golden Vanity-Traditional The Great Seducer by Cale Young Rice Green Escape by Christopher Morley Hail "Tusitala" by Joseph Conrad Hanging Johnny-Traditional Haul Away, Joe-Traditional Haul the Bowline-Traditional Haven by Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer Herve Riel by Robert Browning High Barbary-Traditional High Tide at 4 A.M. by William McFee Homeward Bound-Traditional Homeward Bound by William Daniel Hoodah-Day-Traditional "I've Been Dreamin'" by Bill Adams The Incorrigible by Larry O' Conner Islands by Richard Butler Gleanzer The Isle of Otherie by John Williams Brotherton Johnnie Chantey-Man by Bill Adams Johhny Bowker-Traditional L'envoi by Bill Adams The Landlubber's Toast by Thomas R. Ybarra The Last Chantey by Rudyard Kipling The Last Harbor by Helen Ives Gilcrist The Last Port by John D. Swain The Last Ship by Glenn Ward Dresbach The Last Voyage by Norah M. Holland The Leadman's Song by W. Pearce Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her-Traditional The "Leviathan's" Three Hundred by Anonymous The Long Trail by Rudyard Kipling The Lost Ship by Eugene R. White The Lubber by Carol Haynes Mariners by David Morton Of Mariners by Harold Vinal The Marines' Hymn by Anonymous The Master by Charles Buxton Going Mercantile Jack by Harold Begbie Merchandise by Anonymous Messmates by Sir Henry Newbolt O, Falmouth is a Fine Town by William E. Henley Of Mariners by Harold Vinal Of the Lost Ship by Eugene R. White To an Old Barge by Gordon Seagrove The Old Pilot Speaks by Phoebe Hoffman The Old Sailor by Glenn Ward Dresbach The Old-Timer by R. M. Patterson, Jr. On First Seeing the Ocean by John G. Neihardt One More Day-Traditional Out of the Fog by Dana Burnet Paddy Doyle-Traditional Pagan Hymn by A. John Runcie Penang by Cale Young Rice The Pirates of Tortuga by Hermann Hagedorn The Plains of Mexico-Traditional The Port o' Heart's Desire by John S. McGroaty The Port o' Missing Ships by Norah M. Holland Portrait of a Sailor by Milton Raison Ports of Call by Leo Hayes Realization by Ira South The Reefs by Crosbie Garstin The Remedy by Harry Kemp The return by Algernon Charles Swinburne Reuben Ranzo-Traditional The "Revenge" by Alfred Tennyson Rhyme of an Ancient Mariner by Anonymous Rio Grande-Traditional River Boat by Anonymous Roll the Cotton Down-Traditional Rolling Home-Traditional Running the Eastern Down by Felix Riesenberg The Rush of the "Oregon" by Arthur Guiterman Sailing Directions by Gordon Malherbe Hillman Sailing Orders by Anonymous To a Sailor Buried Ashore by Charles D. B. Roberts Sailor's Consolation by William Pitt A Sailor's Yarn by James Jeffrey Roche Sailors by J. Warren Merrill Sally Brown-Traditional The Saving of the "Cora Adams" by Lewis R. Freeman Sea Born by Harold Vinal A Sea Dirge by William Shakespear Sea fever by Mary Carolyn Davies Sea-Fever by John Masefield A Sea-Going Rubaiyat by William Francis Roantree The Sea Gypsy by Richard Hovey "The Sea is a Harp" by William Hamilton Hayne Sea mood by Milton Raison Sea Song by Charles Wharton Stork The sea Tramp by Burt Franklin Jenness The Sea Wind by Berton Braley The Seafarer by Anonymous The Seafaring Turn by Ira South Sealed Orders by E. E. C. Gibbs Service Stripes by Berton Braley Shenandoah-Traditional "Shipping News" by David Morton The Ships by Thomas Fleming Day "Ships That Pass" by C. Fox Smith Sing a Song of Steerage by Christopher Morley Song for All Seas, All Ships by Walt Whitman Song of the Derelict by John McCrae A Song of the Freebooters by Eugene R. White South Sea Stuff by James J. Montague Square peg by Gordon Seagrove The Stalking of the Sea-Wolves by Charles W. Thompson Storm-Along-Traditional Taken Ship by Charles Buxton Going The Tankers by Gordon Malherbe Hamilton Ten Thousand Miles Away by Anonymous The Wide Missouri-Traditional There's Nothing like a Ship at Sea by Harry Kemp The Three Fishers by Charles Kingley The Three Ships by C. Fox Smith Three Tarry Men by Edmund Leamy A Time-Expired Man by John G. Gartland To a Sailor Buried Ashore by Charles G. D. Roberts To an Old Barge by Gordon Seagrove Tom Bowling by Charles Dibden Tom's Gone to Ilo-Traditional The Tops'l Schooner by Kenneth rand The Tracks of the Trades by Lewis R. Freeman "Tramp Steamer Standing Out, Sir" by James V. Murray A "Tusitala" Forebitter by W. L. Werner "Tusitala's" Christening Ode by R. D. Turnball The Voyagers by Henry Adams Bellows The Ward Room Toast by Anonymous The Water-Front by Anonymous We'll Go to Sea No More by Miss Corbett We're All Bound to Go-Traditional West India Dock Road by Thomas Burke What ho! She Blows! By Wallace Irwin Where Lies the Land? by Arthur Hugh Cloud Whisky for My Johnnie-Traditional The Wide Missouri-Traditional The "William P. Frye" by Jeanne Robert Foster Window Song by Nancy Shores Windows Over Water by Leslie Nelson Jennings The Wistful One by Abigail Cresson With the Submarines by Don Marquis The Wooley by Richard Butler Glaenzer The World of Ships by Burt Franklin Jenness This anthology includes both traditional songs, contemporary songs (from the early 20th century), and nautical poetry. Several women composers are included. There are many jewels in this collection, awaiting refurbishing. Unfortunately there is no musical notation. However, there is an excellent forward and full references and the whole anthology is clearly a labor of love. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Lighter Date: 15 Jun 07 - 01:27 PM That's funny; the copy I've seen contains melodies for the shanties, which come from Stanton H. King's "King's Book of Chanties" (Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1918). |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Jun 07 - 01:50 PM Frothingham- there was a reprint, which I haven't seen. The 1924 original had 288pp., the music of the chanteys starting on p. 241 according to a dealer's description that I found. The chanteys are reprinted from King. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Jun 07 - 02:05 PM Trivia- S. H. King was appointed official chantie instructor (1918) by the United States Shipping Board. He was religious, and often led bible studies at sailors' rests. A long drag chantey, A Long Time Ago, from his "Book of Chanties,? [shortened title?] is on robokopp: http://musicanet.org/robokopp/shanty/alonglon.htm The date on the book is given as 1918 by robokopp. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM The finest collection of chanteys and sailors' songs on the net is the large one collected in robokopp. This site is still available, through musicanet.org, but is no longer being maintained. Many midis. A sailors' dictionary is included. I fear for the future of this source. http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/shanty.html Shanties and Sailor Songs |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 15 Jun 07 - 05:34 PM King had spent six years at sea in the merchant service and another six in the U.S. Navy before swallowing the anchor ca1899. In the '20s he sang some shanties for James M. Carpenter. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 22 Jun 07 - 04:17 PM Found my Frothingham, 1924 date with brief scores for the chanteys, which came from the Oliver Ditson Company and Stanton H. King. For those looking for Bill Adams songs, there are five: Stowaway, I've Been Dreamin', Johnnie Chantey-Man, Billy Peg-Leg's Fiddle, and L'Envoi. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jun 07 - 11:46 AM Q et al- There are more poems by old-sailor poet Bill Adams that I've posted to his page at the Oldpoetry Website: Click here for website I've also posted poems by other old sailor-poets Harry Kemp and Burt Franklin Jenness on that same website. There is also a thread here at Mudcat titled Old Sailor-Poets where I periodically add to the inventory. But the Oldpoetry website is indexed while the one here is by order of posting. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: JWB Date: 25 Jun 07 - 10:43 PM No chanteys in it, but full of sea songs is "Naval Songs and Ballads" edited by C.H.Firth, published by the Navy Records Society in 1908 (this is volume 33 of the Publications of the NRS). 123-page introduction by Professor Firth, 107 song lyrics (no music, but there is an index of tunes mentioned), and notes on each song and ballad. The songs are arranged chronologically, with the earliest dating to the 14th century (titled 'The Battle of Sluys'). Lots of the songs are unfamiliar to me, such as 'The English Seaman's Resolution', 'A Satyr on the Sea-Officers' and 'The Russians Won't Come Out'. But you'll find here 'Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate', 'The Death of Lord Nelson' and 'Andrew Barton'. I wish I had time tonight to type up the list of songs... Jerry |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Jun 07 - 09:19 AM Jerry- We'll cut you some slack! Type up the list and post it when you have more time. ;~) Here's a suggestion to Q: Secure editing powers for this thread, if you don't already have them, and post a running list of the songbooks that have already been digested as an initial post, and update it periodically. As this thread gets longer it will become more likely that some poor sod such as myself will post an index that has already been posted. I'm claiming first dibs on posting the index of PIPE ALL HANDS, edited by Geo. A. Zabriskie, published by "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, © 1938. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Jun 07 - 10:57 AM From PIPE ALL HANDS, edited by Geo. A. Zabriskie, published by "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, © 1938 (in order of appearance): Sea Fever by John Masefield A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield Invitation by Don C. Seitz When henry Morgan Sails by Don C. Seitz The Isle of Pines by Don C. Seitz Forty Singing Seamen by Alfred Noyes A Ballad of John Silver by John Masefield A Night at Dago Tom's by John Masefield The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" by Sir William Schwenk Gilbert The Standing Toast by Charles Dibdin John Reilley as sung by Margaret Rhodes (Traditional) The Sailor's Sheet Anchor by Charles Dibdin Jack in His Element by Charles Dibdin The Sailor to His Parrot by William H. Davies Mother Carey by John Masefield The Yarn of the "Loch Achray" by John Masefield At Sea by Charles Dibdin Ben the Boatswain by Charles Dibdin Captain Stratton's Fancy by John Masefield Credo by Don C. Seitz The Ship of Rio by Walter de la Mere The Wreck of the "Julie Plante" by Wm. Henry Drummond Bill by John Masefield Burial Party by John Masefield Walking the Plank by Don C. Seitz This anthology was privately published and is another labor of love. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: JWB Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM Charlie, Have you discovered yet that the tune of "Dicey Reilly" (sp?) fits the words of Masefield's "Captain Stratton's Fancy" perfectly? A fun song to sing when rum is the libation of choice. Jerry |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:37 PM Jerry- Not yet but I expect I soon will! Thanks! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:24 PM Well now, I'm working on an index of the tunes in the books in my library; e.g. Drunken Sailor, The (Early in the Morning)(Up She Rises) – Shanties from the Seven Seas(p109-12), The Chanty Man Sings (words only)(p27), Roll And Go(p30), Capstan Bars(p40-1), American Sea Songs and Chanteys (words only)(p612), Sea Songs and Shanties(p87-8), Everyman's Book of Sea Songs(p57-8), Songs of American Sailormen(p78), Shantymen & Shantyboys(p48), The Making of a Sailor(p121), The Book of Navy Songs(p138-9), Chanteying Aboard American Ships(p25-6), Songs of Sea Labour(p17) |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:26 PM Here's my Library: *Abrahams, Roger D., Deep the water, shallow the shore. U of Texas Press, 1974. *Baker & Miall, Evryman's book of sea songs. J.M. Dent, 1982. *Bone, David W Capstan Bars. Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932. *Colcord, Joanna Carver, Songs of American sailormen. New York, W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1938. *Colcord, Joanna Carver, Roll and go. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill company, ca1924. *Dingle, Aylward Edward, Spin a yarn, sailor: by Captain "Sinbad". Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company, 1935. Doerflinger, William Main, Songs of the sailor and lumberman. New York, Macmillan Co., 1972. *Doerflinger, William Main, Shantymen and shantyboys. New York, Macmillan, 1951 Firth, C.H., Naval Songs And Ballads., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991. *Frye, John, The men all singing. Norfolk, Va., Donning, 1978. *Harlow, Frederick Pease, The Making of a Sailor. Marine Research Society, Salem, 1928. *Harlow, F.P., Chanteying Aboard American Ships. Mystic Seaport, 2004. Harry, Lahaina, Rhyming in the Rigging. Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge, 1978. *Healy, James N. Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967. Hugill, Stan, Songs of the Sea. McGraw, 1977. *Hugill, Stan, Shanties and sailors' songs. London, Jenkins, 1969. *Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the seven seas. Mystic Seaport , 1994. Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the seven seas. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961 *Huntington, Gale, Songs The Whalemen Sang. Mystic Seaport, 2005. *Lomax, John Avery, Best loved American folk songs. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1947. *Lomax, Alan, The folk songs of North America. Illustrated. London, Cassell, 1960. *Meloney, William Brown IV, The Chanty Man Sings. C.J.O'Brien, New York, 1926. *Palmer, Roy, The Oxford book of sea songs. New York , Oxford University Press, 1986 * *Pond, William A. Naval Songs. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints. Shay, Frank, An American sailor's treasury. New York, Smithmark 1991. *Shay, Frank, American sea songs and chanteys. New York, W. W. Norton 1948. *Smith, C. Fox, A Book of Shanties. Methuen & Co., London, 1927. *Smith, Laura Alexandrine, The Music of the Waters. London. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1888. *Stone, Christopher, Sea Songs And Ballads. Oxford, 1906. * *USNA, Trident Society, The book of Navy songs. Annapolis, Md. United States Naval Institute, 1955. *Whall, W. B., Sea songs and shanties. Glasgow, J. Brown & son, 1920. Bok, Gordon, Time and the Flying Snow. Folk-Legacy Records, Sharon, 1977. *Bullen, Frank T. & Arnold, W.F., Songs of Sea Labour. London, 1914, (Xerox copy) Edward C. Cove, 25 Humorous Sailing Songs. Third Wish Publishing Co., Lincoln, 1982. Koch, John, Sea Shanties. ANFOR Music Publishing, Brooklyn, 1979. Mariide, To Make the Welkin Ring. Shanty Seattle, Seattle, 1981, Millar, John Fitzhugh, A collection of Sea Chanteys. Williamsburg, ca1980 . *Palmer, Roy, The Valiant Sailor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973. * Rogers, Stan, Songs from Fogarty's Cove. 1982, OPC Publications, Ottawa *Salley, George, A Seaman's Hymnal. Two Schooners, Gloucester Point, 1983. Terry, Richard Runciman, The Shanty Book Part I, Sailors Shanties. J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London. 1921 Weiss, Caryl P., The Liverpool Judies Song Book. Capawa Music, Bala-Cynwyd, 1977. Weiss, Caryl P., Here's a Good Luck to the Pint Pot. Capawa Music, Bala-Cynwyd, 1979. Chanteys and Caulking Chants, The Bay: It Makes Us Who We Are, (flyer) Menhaden Chanteys, Maryland Marine Notes Vol 18, No 1 (loose pages) Singers Preserve Chanties of Virginia Fishermen, from NPR Web Site (single page) Jack's Kit or, Saturday night in the forecastle. By an old salt. New-York, Bunce & Brother, 18-- ,(Xerox copy) HIEV RUND: Das Seemannsliederbuch: Heiko Fenn, 1978, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg Die Fanfare: Deutsche Volks- und Marschlieder, Adiolf Hoffmann, 1956, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg Die Seemannskiste: Band 2, 1954, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg Die Seemannskiste: Band 3, 1966, Musikverlag Hans Sikorski, Hamburg SANGHAEFTE: "1976" Statens Skoleskib, Danmark CAHIERS CHANTS de MARINS: 60 Chansons Paroles et Musique Pour Chanter A Bord, le Chasse-maree Wat lijdt den zeerman al verdriet: Het Nederlandse zeemanslied in de zeiltijd (1600-1900), C.A.Davids, 1980, Haag Spiewnik, shanties '87, VI OGOLNOPOLSKI FESTIWAL, Krakow ORSKIE OPOWIESCI: Jan Tomaszewski, 1986, Gdansk |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:00 PM Admirable collection! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 27 Feb 10 - 06:00 PM For your "Drunken Sailor" entry, don't forget to check out ... Olmsted, F.A. 1841. Incidents of a Whaling Voyage. New York: D. Appleton & Co. ...which appears to be the first printing of it. Available on Google Books. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 09 Apr 10 - 09:08 AM The Way of the Ship: Shanties and Shantymen, Terry, Richard Runciman, Fireship Press, Tucson, 2008. (contains both Part I & Part II of The Shanty Book, Sailor Shanties) A-roving (I) A-roving (II) Banks of the Sacremento, The Billy Boy Black Ball Line, The Blow, my bully boys Blow the man down Blow ye winds of morning Boney was a warrior Bound for the Rio Grande Bully Boat, The Can't you dance the polka? Cheer'ly, men Clear the track, let the Bullgine run Dead Horse, The Do let me go Drummer and the cook, The Fire down below Good-bye, fare ye well Good morning, ladies all Hanging Johnny Haul away, Joe Haul away, Joe (II) Hilo, John Brown Hilonday Hilo Somebody Hog's-eye Man, The Hundred years ago, A John Brown's Body Johnny Boker Johnny come down to Hilo Lizer Lee Long time ago, A Lowlnds away Miss Lucy Long My Johnny My Tommy's gone away O Billy Riley Oh run, let the Bullgine run One more day Paddy Doyle's boots Paddy works on the railway Reuben Ranzo Roll the cotton down Round the corner, Sally Sailor likes his bottle, O!, The Sally Brown Santy Anna Shallow Brown Shaver, The Shenandoah Sing fare you well So handy, me gels Stormalong Stormalong John Time for us to leave her Tom's gone to Hilo We'll haul the bowlin' We're all bound to go Walk him along, Johnny What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Whisky Johnny Whoop Jamboree Wild Goose Shanty, The Won't you go my way? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 09 Apr 10 - 04:00 PM Chanteying Aboard American Ships, Harlow, F.P., Mystic Seaport, 2004. A Fal-De-Lal-Day A Hundred Years Ago Aboard the Henry Clay Across the Western Ocean Adieu to Maimuna Ah-Hoo-E-La-E Along the Lowlands A-Roving (The Maid of Amsterdam) Baffin's Bay Banks of Sacremento Barber Song, The Barnacle Bill the Sailor Black Ball Line, The Blow Boys Blow Blow the Man Down Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Boston Bo'sun's Story The Calling the Watch Can't You Dance the Polka Christopher Columbus Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run Coast of Peru, The Constitution and the Guerriere, The Cruise of the Dreadnaught Darky Sunday School, The Dead Horse, The Dixie's Isle Do Me Ama Drunken Sailor, The (Up She Rises) Early in the Morning Edgartown Whaling Song Fate of the Nancy Bell, The Fire Down Below From Surabaya to Pasoeroean Golden Vanitee Greenland Whale, The Gwine to Git a Home Bime By Handsome Charlie's Sing Out Hanging Johnny Haul Away, Joe Haul the Bowline Hauling in the Slack of the Foresheet Heave Away Cheerily Heave Away My Johnnies (We're All Bound To Go) High Barbaree Hilo, My Ranzo Way Hog-Eye Man, The Home on the Mountain Wave, a Homeward Bound (Good-bye Fare You Well) Horn of the Hiram Q, The I Love the Blue Mountains It's Advertised in Boston Japanese Short Drag John Francois (Boney Was a Warrior) John, John Crow Johnny Boker Johnny Get Your Oatcake Done (Jamboree) Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her Let Go the Reefy Tackle Lindy Lowe Liverpool Girls, The Long Time Ago, a Lowlands Married to a Mermaid Mermaid, The Merman, The Mobile Bay Nancy Lee Nantucket P'int Nantucket Skipper, The Oh, Poor Paddy Works on the Railway Old Nantucket Whaling Song Old Stormy One More Day Outward Bound Paddy Doyle and his Boots Pirate of the Isle, The Poor Old Joe Poor Old Man Priest and the Nuns, The Reuben Ranzo Riding on a Donkey Rio Grande Roll the Cotton Down Rolling Down to Old Maui Rolling Home Sailor's Alphabet, The Sally Brown (Roll and Go) Santa Ana (On the Plains of Mexico) Santy Shallow Brown Shannon and Chesapeake Ship Lord Wolsely, The Short Cry or Sing Out, a Short Drag Sing Out, a Slapander-Gosheka So Handy, My Boys, So Handy Song of the Fishes South Australia Storm Along John Stormy Sun Down Below Ten Thousand Miles Away Tommy's Gone to Hilo Topsail Halliards 'Twas a Love of Adventure Walk Away, a Way Sing Sally Weather Main Brace We're All Surrounded Whale, The Whalemen's Wives, The Whiskey Yankee Man-of-War, The Yankee Tars |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Apr 10 - 04:18 PM Love them alpha lists! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 11 Apr 10 - 04:40 PM The Seven Seas Shanty Book, Sampson, John , Boosey & Co., London, 1927. CAPSTAN SHANTIES Rio Grande The Dreadnaught We're all bound to go Shenandoah Roving Santa Anna The Blackball Line Sally Brown High Barbaree Lowlands Can't you dance the polka There's fire down below Mister Stormalong Homeward Bound One more day Leave her, Johnnie,leave her When Johnny comes own to Hilo Clear the track, let the Bullgine run FORE SHEET SHANTIES Hauling on the Bowline Haul away, Joe HALLIARD SHANTIES Blow the man down Reuben Ranzo Whiskey Hanging Johnny A long time ago Boney John's gone to Hilo Blow, boys, blow Dead Horse Roll the Cotton down So handy, my boys, so handy Hurrah, sing fare-you-well RUNAWAY SHANTIES The Drunken Sailor Highland Laddie BUNTING SHANTY Paddy Doyle SEA SONGS Rolling Home The Stately Southerner Spanish Ladies Mainsail Haul According to the act |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 12 Apr 10 - 09:51 AM Naval Songs, Pond, William A. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints. Absent Friends And You, Mary Adieu to Maimuma A Life on the Ocean Wave All Hands Ahoy! All on Account of Eliza America, Commerce and Freedom American Flag America, or, My Country, 'Tis of Thee Anchor's Weigh'd A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea Ballad of Billee Taylor Ballad of the Oysterman Banner of the Stars Barney Buntline, or, The Sailor's Consolation Best (The) Bower Anchor Black Ball Black Eyed Susan Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow Bonny Boat By the Blue Sea Canadian Boat Song Cease, Rude Boreas Columbia Rules the Sea Columbia's Seamen Come, Loose Every Sail Comrades, Join the Flag of Glory Constellation and Insurgente Constitution and Guerriere Dreadnought (The) Enterprise and Boxer(words only) Every Inch a Sailor Fisherman's Daughter Flag of the Constellation Flash Frigate Freedom of the Seas For Sheeting Home Topsails (Outward Bound ) For Rousing Up the Bunt of a Sail (Paddy Doyle) Gale (The) Gallant Thunderbomb Gen'l Taylor Gained the Day Girl I Left Behind Me Good Bye, Charlie Good Night, Ladies Hail, Columbia Haul Away, Joe Haul Out the Bo'line Haul the Bowline Here's a Health to Thee, Tom Breeze High Barbary Homeward Bound Hornet, or, Victory No. 5 I am a Merry Sailor Lad I Love to Roam I'm Afloat I Wish I was Old Stormy's Son Jack's Claim to Poll Jack's Yarn (Little Jack) Jack Ratlin John Francois Johnny Boker Kearsage and Alabama Keep Me in My Tarpaulin Jacket Knock a Man Down Larboard Watch Larry O'Brien Lee Gangway Chorus (A Roving) Let the Ocean Heave to the Tempest's Wing Life On the Ocean Wave Life's Weather Gauge Lighthouse (The) Light of Memory Lily of the Lake Little Jack, or, the Sailor's Story Liverpool Jack Manhattan, Dear Isle Meeting (The) Melodies of Many Lands Mermaids; or, On Friday Morning My Johnny Was a Shoemaker My Tommy's Gone a High-Low Nancy (The) Nancy, Dear Nancy Lee Norfolk Girls Oh! They Call Me Hanging Johnny Oh! The Hogeye men are all the Go Old Storm Along Our Navy(words only) Paddle Your Own Canoe Paddy, Come Work on the Railway Parlement of England Paul Jone's Victory Perry's Victory Pilot (The) Pirate of the Isle Polly Poor Jack Practise Cruise Pull Away Red, White and Blue Reuben Ranzo Rio Grande Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep Rolling Home Royal Fisher Rules of the Road at Sea Sailing by the Lowlands Sailor Boy's Farewell Sailor's (The) Journal Sea and Land Victories Sea, the Glorious Sea Seamen of Columbia Shenadore Ship Ahoy Siege of Tripoli Song of the Fishes Star Spangled Banner Tar's Farewell Ten Thousand Miles Away There's Melody, Boys The Two Proud Sisters of the Sea Three Bells Three Fishers Went Sailing Tom Bowling Tom Tackle Torpedo and the Whale True Blue Truxton's Victory United States and Macedonian (1)(words only) United States and Macedonian (2)(words only) Unmooring Wasp's Frolic (words only) We Be Three Poor Mariners Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea What Will You Do, Love? Whiskey Johnny Will Watch Wives and Sweethearts Yankee Chronology Yankee Girls Yankee Man of War Yankee Tars Yankee Thunders Young Midshipman |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 13 Apr 10 - 08:04 AM Songs The Whalemen Sang, Huntington, Gale, Mystic Seaport, 2005 A Charming Fellow A Farmer's Boy A Fitting Out A Life on the Ocean Wave Anew Liberty Song A New Sea Song A New Song A Sailor's Trade is a Roving Life A Song on the Nantucket Ladies A Whaling Scene Adieu My Native Land Adieu to Erin American Stranger, see When first into This Country An Ancient Riddle Angels Whisper Aran's Lonely Home As I Grow Old Banks of Banna Banks of Champlain Banks of Glenco Banks of the Schuylkill Bark Gay Head Bark Ocean Rover Barney McCoy, see Norah Darling Beaco Light Beggarman Behind the Green Bush Betsy is a Beauty Fair, see Fair Betsy Bible Story Billy O'Rourke Blessed land of Love and Liberty Blow High Blow Low Blow Ye Winds Bold Privateer, see Captain Calls All Hands Bonaparte Bonaparte on St. Helena Bonnet of Blue Bonny Bunch of Roses-O Bride's Farewell Bright Phoebe British Man-of-War California Song Can of Grog Captain Captain Calls All Hands Captain James Captain's Apprentice, see Captain James Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold, see Nobleman's Daughter Caroline of Edinburgh Town, see Lovely Caroline Coast of Peru Come Let Us Be Jolly Confession County of Tyrone Covent Garden Croppy Boy Cruise of the Dove Cupid's Garden see Covent Garden Dark-Eyed Sailor Dauntless Sailor Demon of the Sea Desolation Diego's Bold Shore Down Wapping Dying Soldier Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Erin's Lovely Home, see Aran's Lonely Home Factor's Song, see Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts Fair Betsy Fanny Blair Fare You Well Farewell My Dear Nancy First Time I Saw My Love Flora the Lily of the West Flowing Bowl, see Sling the Flowing Bowl Gennett and Genoe Gosport Beach, see Undutiful Daughter Gosport Tragedy, see Ship Carpenter Green Linnet Greenland Whale Hearts of Gold Heathen Dear Hunter's Lane I Can Not Call Her Mother I Had a Handsome Fortune I Was Once a Sailor In Days When We Went Gipsying Indian Hunter Jacket So Blue, see Bonnet of Blue Jamie's on the Stormy Sea Jojn Brown John Bull's Epistle John Riley Keyhole in the Door Lass of Mowee Lily of the West Little Mary the Sailor's Bride, see Beggarman Little Mohee, see Lass of Mowee Loose Every Sail to the Breeze Lord Our God Love Song in the Year 1769 Lovely Caroline Maid of Erin Maid on the Shore Mantle So Green Mary's Dream McDonald's Return to Glenco, see Banks of Glenco Moll Brooks Moon Is Brightly Beaming Love Most Beautiful Mother's Admonition, see Tarry Trousers My Flora and I, see Shepherd's Lament Nelson Neptune Nobleman's Daughter Norah Darling Now We Steer Our Course for Home O Logie O Buchan Ocean Ocean Queen Old Horse Old Hulk One Night Sad and Languid Our Old Friend Coffin Our Ship Is Lying in Harbour Phoebe, see Bright Phoebe Pilot Pirate of the Isles Plowboy's Courtship, see Queen of the May Pol and Sal Post Below Prayer Prayer at the Start of a Voyage Pretty Sally Pride of Kildare Queen of the May Recruiting Sargeant Reily's Jailed Rinordine Rolling Down to Old Mohee Rose of Allendale Rover of the Sea Row On Sailor Boy's Song Sailor from Dover, see Pretty Sally Sailor's Adieu, see Topsail Shivers in the Wind Sailor's Come All Ye, see Hearts of Gold Sailor's Farewell Sandshark Sarah Mariah Cornell Saturday Night at Sea Sea Captain, see Maid on the Shore Sea Ran High Sequel to Will Watch Sheffield Prentice Boy Shepherd's Daughter Shepherd's Lament Shepherd's Resolution, see Behind the Green Bush Ship Carpenter Ship Euphrasia Silvery Moon Silvery Tide Sling the Flowing Bowl Song of Solomon's Temple Song of Courtship Sons of Liberty Sons of Worth Sovereign of the Sea Springfield Mountain Storm, see The Tempest Storm Was Loud Susan the Pride of Kildare Tarry Trousers Terrible Polly The Sea The Tempest The Times The Wreath There She Blows,see Wounde Whale Thou Hast Learned to Love Another Topsail Shivers in the Wind Turkey Factor in Foreign Parts Turkish Lady Undutiful Daughter Village Born Beauty Virtuous America Wait for the Wagon We Met 'Twas in a Crowd Wedding Rite, see I Can Not Call Her Mother Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea Whalefish Song Whaleman's Lament Whaler's Song When First into this Country When I Remember Wide World of Waters William Taylor Willie and Mary, see Beggarman Willie Gray Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea Willy Rily, see Reily's Jailed Wings of a Goney Women Love Kissing as Well as the Men Wounded Whale Yankee Doodle, see The Times Ye Parliaments of England Yonder Stands a Handsome lady, see Song on Courtship Young Sailor Bold, see Nobleman's Daughter Young Shepherd, see Shepherd's Lament Young Virgin |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 13 Apr 10 - 09:35 AM I will continue posting the contents of the various books in my library (see a previous post for the titles), concentrating on those that are currently available, unless someone has a particular interest. Cheers, Geo |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 14 Apr 10 - 02:43 PM Boxing the Compass, Palmer, Roy, Yorkshire, Herron, 2001. Admiral Byng Andrew Rose Another of Seafarers Balena, The Banks of Newfoundland, The Bargeman's ABC, The Bengamin's Lamentation, The Blow the Man Down Blow Ye Winds Boatie Rows, The Boatswain's Call, The Bold Adventures of Captain Ross Bold Princess Royal Ceasar's Victory, The Candlelight Fisherman, The Captain Barton's Distress Captain Glen's Unhappy Voyage Captain James Captain Kid's Farewell Captain Mansfield's Fight with the Turks City of Baltimore, The Common Sailor, The Copy of Verses composed by Captain Henry Every, A Copy of Verses on Jefferys the Seaman, A Cordial Advice Death of Admiral Benbow, The Deep Sea Tug Diesel and Shale Disappointed Sailor, The Disconsolate Judy's Lamentation Distressed Men of War Dolphin's Return, The Dockyard Gate, The Dreadnought, The Duke William England's Great Loss by a Storm of Wind English Courage Displayed Excellent New Song, An Execution of Five Pirates for Murder Famous Fight at Malago, The Famous Sea Fight between Captain and the Rainbow, The Fancy Frigate, The Fare Ye Well, lovely Nancy Female Cabin Boy, The Fiddler's Green Final Trawl, The Fire Ship, The First of the Emigrants, The Fisher Lad of Whitby, The Fishes' Lamentation, The Flying Cloud, The Flying Dutchman, The George Jones Golden Voyage, The Grace Darling Greenland Men, The Greenland Voyage, The Greenland Whale Fishery, The Grimsby Fishermen, The Grimsby Lads, The Heave away, my Johnny Holy Ground, The Homeward Bound Honour of Bristol, The I am an Ancient Mariner Jackie Tar Jack Tar Jervis Bay, The John Dory Jolly Sailor'd True Description of a Man-of-War, The Joyful New Ballad, A Kola Run, The Lady Franklin's Lament Leave her, Johnny Leaving of Liverpool, The Liverpool Girls Liverpool John Looking for a Ship Loss of the Amphitrite Loss of the Evelyn Marie, The Lucky Sailor, The Lustily, lustily Maui Boat, Leinster, The Man-of-War's Garland, The Merchant Shipping Act, The Montague Whaler, The Nelson's Death and Victory Net for a Raven, A New Sea Song New Song, called the Frolicsome Sea Captain, A New Song called the Victory, A New Song on the Blanford, A New Song on the Total Defeat of the French Fleet, A North Country Collier, The Off to Sea Once More Paddy West Pleasant and Delightful Praise of Sailors, The President Parker Rambling Sailor, The Ram It! I'm RDP Ratcliffe Highway Roll, Alabama, Roll Rolling Home Rolling Sailor, The Rounding the Horn Sailor's Alphabet, The Sailor's Christmas Day, The Sailor's Complaint, The Sailors for my Money Sailor's Hornpipe, The Sailor's Lamentation, The Sailor's Life, A Sailor's Only Delight, The Sailor's Wives, The Sally Munro Sea Fight, The Seaman's Compass, The Sea Martyrs, The Seamen and Soldier's Last Farewell, The Seamen's Distress, The Sramen's Wives' Vindication, The Second of August Servant of Rosemary Lane, The Shannon and Chesapeake Shaw-Savill's Buccaneers Ship in Distress, The Ship is all Laden, The Shoals of Herring, The Silk Merchant's Daughter, The Sinking of the Graf Spee, The Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing in the Lowlands Smacksman, The Smuggler's Victory, The Song Song of the Seamen and Land Soldiers, A Song on the Duke's Late Glorious Victory, A Spanish Ladies Stormy Weather, Boys Strike the Bell Swallow the Anchor Swell My Net Full Tars of the Blanche, The Three Jolly Fishermen Three Score and Ten Tiger Bay Unseaworthy Ship, The Upon Sir Francis Drake's Return Valiant Sailor, The Whip Jamboree William Taylor Winning of Cales, The Wreck of the Northfleet, The Wreck of the Royal Charter, The Yankee Man-of-War, The Young Sailor Cut Down, The |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 15 Apr 10 - 02:42 PM Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Mystic Seaport , 1994. (abridged) Abel Brown the Sailor Aboard the Kangaroo According to the Act Across the Rockies Across the Western Ocean A Hundred Years Ago Alabama Albertina A Long Time Ago Amsterdam Anglesey, The A-rollin' Down the River A-rovin' As Off to the South'ard We Go Away for Rio! Away Susanna! A Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother Baltimore Banks of the Sacremento Banks o'Newf'n'land Big Five-Gallon Jar Billy Boy Billy Riley Blood-Red Roses Blow, Boys, Blow Blow, Boys, Blow, for Californi-O! Blow the Man Down Blow Ye winds Boney Bosun's Alphabet, The Bound for the Rio Grande Bound to Australia Bound to California Bully Boat, The Bully in the Alley Bunch o' Roses California Californi-O! Campanayro, The Campanero, The Can't Ye Dance the Polka? Can't Ye Hilo? Captain Stormalong Challo Brown Charlie One More Day Cheer, Boys, Cheer Cheerily Man (Men) Chinee Bumboatman, The Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run Coal Black Rose Codfish Shanty, The Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John Dan, Dan Dead Horse, The Derby Ram Dixie Land Do Let Me Go, Gels Do Let Me Lone, Susan Donkey Riding Doodle Let Me Go Dreadnaught, The Drunken Sailor Ebenezer, The Eki Dumah Eliza Lee Essequibo River Farewell and Adieu to You Fare Ye Well, My Bonnie Young Girl Fire Down Below Fire Ship, The Fishes, The Five-Gallon Jar, The Flash Frigate, The Flash Packet, The Fol-de-lol-day 'Frisco Ship, The Gals o' Chile, The Gals o' Dublin Town, The Gal With the Blue Dress, The General Taylor Gimme De Banjo Girl in Portland Street, The Golden Vanitee, The Goodbye, Fare-ye-well Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye Goodbye, Sing Fare You Well Good Morning, Ladies All Good Morning, Ladies All (Roller Bowler) Go To Sea No More Go To Sea Once More Hand-over-hand Chants Handy Bandy Barque, The Handy, Me Boys (Handy, Me Girls) Hanging Johnny Harp Without the Crown, The Haul Away, Boys, Haul Away! Haul Away, Joe (Jo) Haul Away the Bowline Haul 'er Away! Hauley, Hauley-ho! Haul Him Away! Haul the Bowline Hawks Eye Man, The Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away Heave Away Cheerily O! Heave Away, Me Johnnies Heave, My Boys, Away He-bang, She-bang Hello, Somebody! Hieland Laddie High Barbaree High-O, Come Roll Me Over Hilo, Boys, Hilo Hilo, Come Down Below Hilo, Johnny Brown Hilonday Hilo, Somebody Below Hilo, Somebody, Hilo Hog0eye (Hogs-eye) Man, The Holy Ground One More, The Holystoning and Cargo-stowing Songs Home,Dearie, Home Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare-ye-well) Homeward Bound (Oh, We are Homeward Bound Today) Homeward Bound (To the Liverpool Docks) Hooker John Hooraw for the Blackball Line Hooraw, Me Loolo Boys (Gels) Huckleberry Hunting Hurrah, Sing Fare You Well I'm Bound Away In 'Frisco Bay Irish Emigrant, The Jack-All-Alone Jack Tar Ja, Ja,Ja! Jamboree Jenny, Get Your Oatcake Done Jinny Keep Yer Ringtail Warm John, Come Tell Us As We Haul Away John Dameray (N. Silsbee) John Kkanaka Johnny Bowker Johnny, Come Down the Backstay Johnny, Come Down to Hilo Johnny, Come to Hilo Johnny Poker Johnny Polka Johnny's Gone to Hilo Johnny, Walkalong to Hilo Knock a Man Down Larry Marr Lay Me Down Leave Her, Bullies, Leave Her Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her Limejuice Ship, The Little Ball o' Yarn, The Liverpool Judies (Girls), The Liverpool Packet, The Liverpool Song, The Liza Lee Lowlands Lowlands (Golden Vanitee) Lowlands (My Dollar an' a Half a Day) Lowlands Away Lowland Sea, The Lowlands Low, The Maggie May Maid of Amsterdam, The Mainsail Haul Miss Juliana Brown Miss Lucy Long Miss Lucy Loo Mister Stormalong Mister Stormalong John Mobile Bay Mudder Dinah My Bonnie Highland Lassie-O My Dollar an' a Half a Day New York Gals, The Oak and the Ash, The Off to Sea Once More Oh, Aye, Rio Oh, I'm Going to Leave Her Oh, Stormalong Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo Old Santy Ana Ols Stormalong Old Swansea Town One More O Mary, Come Down! On Board of the Kangaroo One More Day Only One More Day Outward and Homeward Bound Ox-eye Man, The Paddy Doyle's Boots Paddy, Lay Back Paddy West Paddy Works on the Railway Pay Me the Money Down Plains of Mexico, The Poor Lucy Anna Poor Old Horse Poor Old Joe Poor Old Man Poor Paddy Works on the Railway Put Yer Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away Rando Ray Randy Dandy P! Ratcliffe Highway Reuben Ranzo Rio Grande Rise Me Up from Down Below River Lea, The Rock 'n' Row Me Over Roll, Alabama, Roll Roll and Go! (A Long Time Ago) Roll and Go! (Tommy's on the Tops'l Yard) Roll, Boys, Roll! Roll, Bullies, Roll! Roller Bowler Rollin' Down to Trinidad Rolling Home Rolling King Rolling River, The Roll, Julia, Roll Roll 'n' Go (Sally Brown) Roll the Cotton Down Roll the Old Chariot Roll the Woodpile Down Round the Bay of Mexico Round the Corner, Sally Royal Artillery Man Ruler King Run, Let the Bulgine Run Sacramento Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The Sailor Loves, The Sailor's Alphabet, The Sailor's Grace, The Sailor's Way, The St. Helena Soldier Sally Brown Sally Rackett Saltpetre Shanty Santa Anna Santiana Saucy Arabella, The Saucy Jack Tar, The Saucy Sailor Boy, The Seafarers Sebastopol Serafina Shake Her, Johnny, Shake Her! Shallow Brown Shanghai Brown Shaver, The Shenandoah Shenandoah (Bullen) Shenandoah, The Shiloh Brown Shinbone Al Sing a Song, Blow-along O! Sing Hilo, Me Ranzo Ray Sing-outs for Rope, Capstan, and Halyard Winch Sing, Sally O! Sister Susan Skonnert Albertina Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle So Early in the Morning So Handy, My Boys Sound the Jubilee South Australia Southern Ladies Spanish Ladies Stand to Yer Ground Stormalong Stormalong John Stormalong, Lads, Stormy Stormy Along, John Sweatin'-up Chants Ten Stone Ten Thousand Miles Away Tiddy High O! Time for Us to Leave Her Timme Heave-O, Hang Her Hilo! 'Tis Time nfor Us to Go Tommy's Gone Away Tommy's On the Top'l Yard Tom's Gone to Hilo (Ilo) To My Hero Bangidero Towrope Girls, The Up She Goes Valparaiso Round the Horn Van Dieman's Land Walkalong, Miss Susiana Brown Walkalong, My Rosie Walkalong, You Sally Brown Walk Him Along, John Walk Me Along, Johnny 'Way. Me Susiana! 'Way, Stormalong John We'll Go to Sea no More We'll Ranzo Way We're All Bound to Go Where Am I to Go, M'Johnnies? Whisky Johnny Wide Missouri The Wild Goose Shanty The Won't Ye Go My Way? Wo Stormalong Yankee John, Stormalong Yaw, Yaw, Yaw Yeo Heave Ho! |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 15 Apr 10 - 04:39 PM Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, (complete) Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961 Abel Brown the Sailor Aboard the Kangaroo According to the Act Across the Rockies Across the Western Ocean A Hundred Years Ago A Kom Till Mig Pa Lordag Kvall Alabama Albertina A Long Time Ago American Railway, The Amsterdam Anglesey, The Arlis A-rollin' Down the River A-rovin' As Off to the South'ard We Go As-tu Connu le Per' Lanc'lot? Away for Rio! Away Susanna! A Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother Baltimore Banks of the Sacremento Banks o'Newf'n'land Big Five-Gallon Jar Billy Boy Billy Riley Blood-Red Roses Blow, Boys, Blow Blow, Boys, Blow, for Californi-O! Blow the Man Down Blow Ye winds Boney Bosun's Alphabet, The Bound for the Rio Grande Bound to Australia Bound to California Brindisi di Marinai Bully Boat, The Bully in the Alley Bunch o' Roses California Californi-O! Campanayro, The Campanero, The Can't Ye Dance the Polka? Can't Ye Hilo? Captain Kidd Captain Stormalong C'est en Passant sur l'Pont de Morlaix Challo Brown Charlie One More Day Cheer, Boys, Cheer Cheerily Man (Men) Chinee Bumboatman, The Cialoma Di Li Tunnari Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run Coal Black Rose Codfish Shanty, The Come-along, Git-along, Stormalong John Dance the Boatman Dan, Dan Dar Gigo Tre Flickor Das Sampanmadchen David Straat Dead Horse, The De History ob de World De Hoffnung De Kock Den Gamla Briggen Der Allerbeste Koch Derby Ram Der Hamborger Veermaster Der Hamborger Vullrigger Derriere Chez Nous y a z'un Petit Bois De Runer von Hamborg De Sandy Boy Det Blaser Kallt, Kallt Vader Ifran Sjon Det Hande Sig I Goteborg Die Gute Alte Brigg Dirty Old Pig, The Dixie Dixie Land Do Let Me Go, Gels Do Let Me Lone, Susan Donkey Riding Doodle Let Me Go Dreadnaught, The Drunken Sailor E Amola! Ebenezer, The Ej Bor Vi Sorja, Ej Bor Vi Klaga Eki Dumah Eliza Lee En Jaeger Gik At Jage En Sjoman Alskar Havets Vag Rn Sjomansvisa fran Kinakusten En Ung Sjoman Forlustar Es Gingen Drei Madchen Essequibo River Et Nous Irons a Valparaiso Fantali for Julia Farewell and Adieu to You Fare Ye Well, My Bonnie Young Girl Farval, Farval, Fortjusande Mo Fire Down Below Fire Ship, The Fishes, The Five-Gallon Jar, The Flash Frigate, The Flash Packet, The Flying Cloud, The Fol-de-lol-day Frisch Auf, Alle Mann an Deck 'Frisco Ship, The Gals o' Chile, The Gals o' Dublin Town, The Gal With the Blue Dress, The General Taylor Gimme De Banjo Girl in Portland Street, The Golden Vanitee, The GoodBye, Farewell: As-Tu Connu le Per Lanc'lot?, Et Nous Irons a Valparaiso Goodbye, Fare-ye-well Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye Goodbye, Sing Fare You Well Good Morning, Ladies All Good Morning, Ladies All (Roller Bowler) Good Night Ladies Go Rowing Go To Sea No More Go To Sea Once More Gumtree Canoe, The Halarvisa Hamburg, Du Schone Stadt Hand-over-hand Chants Handy Bandy Barque, The Handy, Me Boys (Handy, Me Girls) Hanging Johnny Harp Without the Crown, The Haul Away, Boys, Haul Away! Haul Away, Joe (Jo) Haul Away the Bowline Haul 'er Away! Hauley, Hauley-ho! Haul Him Away! Haul the Bowline Hawks Eye Man, The Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away Heave Away Cheerily O! Heave Away, Me Johnnies Heave, My Boys, Away He-bang, She-bang Hello, Somebody! Hieland Laddie High Barbaree High-O, Come Roll Me Over Hilo, Boys, Hilo Hilo, Come Down Below Hilo, Johnny Brown Hilonday Hilo, Somebody Below Hilo, Somebody, Hilo Hob-y-derri-Dando Hog-eye (Hogs-eye) Man, The Holy Ground One More, The Holystoning and Cargo-stowing Songs Home, Dearie, Home Home, Home, Home Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare-ye-well) Homeward Bound (Oh, We are Homeward Bound Today) Homeward Bound (To the Liverpool Docks) Ho Molly! Hooker John Hooraw for the Blackball Line Hooraw, Me Loolo Boys (Gels) Hourra, Mes Boues, Hourra! Huckleberry Hunting Hu, Hu, Hu! Hullabaloo-Balay Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah! I'm Bound Away In Cam'eltoon Once More In 'Frisco Bay Irish Emigrant, The Jack-All-Alone Jack Tar Ja, Ja,Ja! Jamboree Jean Francois de Nantes Jenny, Get Your Oatcake Done Jinny Keep Yer Ringtail Warm John Brown's Body John Bull John Cherokee John, Come Tell Us As We Haul Away John Damaray John Dameray (N. Silsbee) John Kkanaka Johnny Bowker Johnny, Bcome-along Johnny, Come Down the Backstay Johnny, Come Down to Hilo Johnny, Come to Hilo Johnny Poker Johnny Polka Johnny's Gone to Hilo (Ilo) Johnny, Walkalong to Hilo Julia Knock a Man Down Kom Hor, Kom Hor La Danae La Margot Lampa bbo Lampa La Pique Larry Marr Lay Me Down Leave Her, Bullies, Leave Her Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her Le Grand Coureur Limejuice Ship, The Limerick Shanty, The Little Ball o' Yarn, The Liverpool Judies (Girls), The Liverpool Packet, The Liverpool Song, The Liza Lee Lower the Boat Down Lowlands Lowlands (Golden Vanitee) Lowlands (My Dollar an' a Half a Day) Lowlands Away Lowland Sea, The Lowlands Low, The Magelhan (original) Magellan (Rolling Home) Maggie May Maid of Amsterdam, The Mainsail Haul Mermaid, The Merrily We Roll Along MinMand Han Var En Sjomand Miss Juliana Brown Miss Lucy Long Miss Lucy Loo Mister Stormalong Mister Stormalong John Mobile Bay Mochyn Du Mudder Dinah My Bonnie Highland Lassie-O My Dollar an' a Half a Day My Johnny Natiomal Song Used for Hauling (Russian) New York Gals, The Oak and the Ash, The O Du Glade Sjoman Off to Sea Once More Oh, Aye, Rio Oh, I'm Going to Leave Her Oh, Stormalong Oh, Susanna Oh, Who's Been Here? Old Brig, The Old English Chantey Old Moke Pickin' on the Banjo Old Santy Ana Ols Stormalong Old Swansea Town One More O Mary, Come Down! On Board of the Kangaroo One More Day Only One More Day Opsang for Jonas Anton Hjelm Opsang for Preciosa Outward and Homeward Bound Ox-eye Man, The Paddy Doyle's Boots Paddy, Get Back Paddy, Lay Back Paddy West Paddy Works on the Railway Pay Me the Money Down Plains of Mexico, The Poor Lucy Anna Poor Old Horse Poor Old Joe Poor Old Man Poor Paddy Works on the Railway Powder Monkey, The Quand la Boiteuse Va-t-au Marche Put Yer Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away Rando Ray Randy Dandy O! Ratcliffe Highway Reuben Ranzo Rio Grande Rise Me Up from Down Below River Lea, The Rock 'n' Row Me Over Roll, Alabama, Roll Roll and Go! (A Long Time Ago) Roll and Go! (Tommy's on the Tops'l Yard) Roll, Boys, Roll! Roll, Bullies, Roll! Roller Bowler Rollin' Down to Trinidad Rolling Home Rolling Home by the Silvery Moon Rolling King Rolling River, The Roll, Julia, Roll Roll 'n' Go (Sally Brown) Roll the Cotton Down Roll the Old Chariot Roll the Woodpile Down Rosabell Fredolin Round the Bay of Mexico Round the Corner, Sally Round Yr Horn Royal Artillery Man Ruler King Run, Let the Bulgine Run Russian Chantey for Heaving the Anchor Russian Song for Heaving the Anchor Sacramento Sailor Foireman Sailor Likes His Bottle-O, The Sailor Loves, The Sailor's Alphabet, The Sailor's Grace, The Sailor's Way, The St. Helena Soldier Sally Brown Sally Rackett Saltpetre Shanty Samuel Hall Santa Anna Santiana Saucy Arabella, The Saucy Jack Tar, The Saucy Sailor Boy, The Seafarers Sebastopol Serafina Shake Her, Johnny, Shake Her! Shallow Brown Shanghai Brown Shanty for the Christina Packet Shaver, The Shenandoah Shenandoah (Bullen) Shenandoah, The Shiloh Brown Shinbone Al Shule Agra Singapor-Sang Sing a Song, Blow-along O! Sing Hilo, Me Ranzo Ray Sing-outs for Rope, Capstan, and Halyard Winch Sing, Sally O! Siste Reis Sister Susan Skeppet Bernadotte Skon Jungfrun Hon Gangar Sig Till Hogsta Berg Skonnert Albertina Slack Away Yer Reefy Tayckle So Early in the Morning So Handy, My Boys So Heave Away Sound the Jubilee South Australia Southern Ladies Spanish Ladies Stand to Yer Ground Stormalong Stormalong John Stormalong, Lads, Stormy Stormy Along, John Stormy Winds do Blow, The Supen Ut, En Dram Pa Man Susannavisan Svineper Sweatin'-up Chants Sweet Nightengale Syng Hoit Faleri Tapiocum Ten Stone Ten Thousand Miles Away Three Sailors of Bristol City Tiddy High O! Time for Us to Leave Her Timme Heave-O, Hang Her Hilo! 'Tis Time nfor Us to Go Tommy's Gone Away Tommy's On the Top'l Yard Tom's Gone to Hilo (Ilo) To My Hero Bangidero Towrope Girls, The Upidee, Upidah Up She Goes Up, Up, My Boys, Up a Hill Valparaiso Round the Horn Van Dieman's Land Ved Ankerhioning Vi Styrte Utover Atlanten Walkalong, Miss Susiana Brown Walkalong, My Rosie Walkalong, You Sally Brown Walk Him Along, John Walk Me Along, Johnny Wat Wi Doht 'Way. Me Susiana! 'Way, Stormalong John We'll Go to Sea no More We'll Ranzo Way We're All Bound to Go Where Am I to Go, M'Johnnies? Whisky Johnny Whiskey, You're My Darling Wide Missouri The Wild Goose Shanty The Won't Ye Go My Way? Wo Stormalong Yankee John, Stormalong Yaw, Yaw, Yaw Yellow Rose of Texas, The Yeo Heave Ho! |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 15 Apr 10 - 05:15 PM Sea Songs And Ballads from Nineteeth Century Nova Scotia, Fowke, Edith, 1981 AROUND THE WORLD AND HOME AGAIN ARRIVING BACK AT LIVERPOOL THE BANKS OF BRANDY WINE THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND THE BIG FIVE GALLON JAR THE BLIND SAILOR BLOW THE MAN DOWN BOLD JACK DONAHOE BOUND TO RIO THE BOUNTY JUMPER THE BRAES OF BALQUITHER BRIGANTINE SOROCCO THE CABIN BOY THE CITY OF BALTIMORE THE CUMBERLAND'S CREW THE DESOLATE WIDDOW FIRE IN THE FORETOP THE FROZEN GIRL THE GHOSTLY SAILORS GOODBYE FARE YE WELL HANGMAN JOHNNIE HARBOUR GRACE HAUL THE ALABAMA BOWLINE ISLE OF FUGI LAY OUT, TAKE SHEETS AND HAUL LIVERPOOL PACKET THE MARY (MIND HOW YOU TRIFLE WITH A GUN) OLD ENGLAND'S GAINED THE DAY OLD HOSS OLD MOTHER HEAD'S ON THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND ON THE BANKS OF THE SACREMENTO ON THE PLAINS OF MEXICO OUR FIFER BOY THE PRIDE OF GLENCOE THE RAMBLING IRISH MAN ROLLING HOME TO MERRY ENGLAND THE ROSE OF BRITAIN'S ISLE THE ROSE OF BRITON'S ISLE THE ROSE OF TRALEE SAILOR'S BURIAL AT SEA SAUER KRAUT SAY OLD MAN SCREWIN IN SONG SHENANDORE SHILOH BROWN THE SHIP LADY SHERBROOKE THE SHIP LADY SHEREBROOK [THE SHOOTING STAR] SWEET JINNY ON THE MOOR THEN TURN OUT YOU JOLLY TARS WALKING IN DE MIDDLE OF DE ROAD WAY DOWN IN TENNESSEE WE'LL PAY PADDY DOYLE FOR HIS BOOTS WHAT YOU GOING TO DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? WHISKEY FOR MY JOHNNIE THE WORN OUT SAILOR |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 16 Apr 10 - 01:40 PM Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, Healy, James N. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967 SAILORS AND THEIR LOVES The Belfast Sailor (quote)(words only) The Drowning of Thomas Murphy Bold Denis McCarthy The Sailor and his Love Sligo Shore (quote)(words only) The Saddest Breeze The Sailor from Limerick Town Charming Mary Neal Your Faithful Sailor Boy SHANTIES Haul Away, Joe (quote)(words only) Across The Western Ocean Paddy Doyle Paddy on the Railway The Montague We're all Bound to Go The Old Horse TALL SHIPS A-VOYAGING A Sailor's Way (quote)(words only) The Middlesex Flora The Ballad of the Blind Sailors The Boys of Baltimore Commodore Jack Barry Captain Coulston Manning the Pirate (quote)(words only) Kelly the Pirate The Ouzel (quote)(words only) Fineen O'Driscoll, the Rover The Dack of Baltimore Grainnu Mhaol WRECKS The Poulduff Fisherman (quote)(words only) The Pomona The French 'Cavavaille' The Loss of the Hantoon Baidin Fheidhlimidh (Phelim's wee boat) The Rescue of the Vivandiere The Sorroful Fate of O'Brien The Sinking of the Lusitania (quote)(words only) The Fate of the Mailboat SPANISH WINE AND WILD GEESE Roisin dubh; Dark Rosaleen Salonika (quote) St. Patrick's Arrival Lonely Banna Strand Sailing in the Lowlands Low The Lowlands of Hollond The Irish Drummer Van Dieman's Land To the Aid of the Pope COME BACK TO ERIN McDermott's Farewell (quote)(words only) The County of Mayo The Emigrant's Voyage to America My Love Nell The Loss of the Atlantic Steamship The Glasgow Sweet Cootehill Town The Streams of Bunclody Adieu to Erin (quote)(words only) At the Dawn of the Morning Captain Thompson THE FISHERMEN OF THE COAST Arranmore Boat Song (quote)(words only) Herring the King The Queen of Connemara The Boatman of Kinsale My Connor the Fisherman The Banks of Newfoundland The Faythe Fishing Fleet Arranmore Boat Song SONGS OF THE LAKES AND RIVERS My Colleeb Deas Donn (quote)(words only) My Beautiful Shannon The lake of Coolfin An tAmhrainin Siodraimin A Sweet Little Song The Banks of the Calm Golden Suir The Cruise of the Calabar The Strabane Fleet The Rivers THE COASTLINE The Curlew (quote)(words only) The Holy Ground (quote)(words only) The Regatta (quote)(words only) The Praises of Kingston Harbour Eochaill My Sunday Morning Maiden In Praise of Kinsale (quote)(words only) The Kinsale Ballad Bantry Bay Galway Bay |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 16 Apr 10 - 03:31 PM Capstan Bars, Bone, David, W Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932. SHORT HAUL CHANTIES Haul on th' Bowlin' Early in th' Morning Hand o'er Hand Boney Paddy Doyle The "Dead Horse" Chanty HALYARD CHANTIES Ranzo Blow, Boys, Blow Tom's Gone t' Hilo DEBT AND CREDIT Blow th' Man Down "Whis-key, John-nie" Roll th' Cotton Down CAPATAN CHANTIES Sally Brown Amsterdam Shenandoah OUT OF THE BLUE The Rio Grande Homeward Bound The Liverpool Girls WINDLASS AND PUMP CHANTIESLowlands Stormalong Santy Ana "LEAVE HER, JOHNNIE, LEAVE HER!" THE LIVERPOOL SONG |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 17 Apr 10 - 11:57 AM Re 25 Jun 07 post Naval Songs And Ballads, Firth, C.H., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991. One of the indexes at the back of the book is as follows: TUNES MENTIONED Admiral Benbow Admiral Byng and brave West Admiral Keppel Triumphant A Fig for France and Holland too A hunting we will go Aim not too high An Orange Arethusa Awake, oh my Cloris Banstead Downs Brave Vernon's Triumph Cannons rore Captain Death Captain Ward Cawsand Bay Chevy Chase Come and Listen to my Ditty Coming Down Death of Admiral Benbow Digby's Farewell Down by a Crystal River side Dub a Dub, or, the Seaman's Tantara ra Duke of Lorain and the Princess Royal Every Man Keep his own Room Five Sail of Frigats bound for Malago Fond boy Glorious Charles of Sweden Gossip Joan Hearts of Oak Hey! For the honour of Old England Hey Ho, my Hony I am a Jovial Batchelor I often for my Jenny strove I prethee Love turn to me I was, d'ye see, a Waterman Iantha Ianthe, I'le go to Sir Richard In the merry month of June John Dory John Duke of Marlborough Ladies of London Let Caesar Live long Let the soldiers rejoice Let us drink and sing, and merrily troul the bowl Monsieur Ragou, or the Dancing Hobby horses Mounseers Almaigne O so ungrateful a creature Our Noble King in his progress Packington' Pound Round about the Hollow Tree Russel's Farewell Sail before the mast Shannon and Chesapeake Tars of the Blanche The Dancing Hobby horses, v. Monsieur Ragou The Husky Night The Jovial Cobbler The King's going to Bulloign The Landlady of France The Lillies of France The Poor Benjamin The Ring of Gold The Seaman's Tantara ra, v. Dub a Dub The Spinning Wheel The stormy winds do blow The Two English Travellers The Vicar of Bray Thursday in the morn To all you ladies now at land We'll go no more to Greenland When this old Cap was New Which nobody can deny From the NOTES P. 328. Cawsand Bay. Version supplied by Sir J. K. Laughton, who writes: 'It was brought into vouge about fifty years ago by a dear friend and brother officer of mine, Richard Creagh Saunders, then Naval Instructor of the Marlborough, the flagship of the Mediterranean. He was a man of poetic feeling, with a pretty turn for versifying, and a good knowledge of music, though no voice to speak of. The account he gave menof it is this: He was staying in the country with an old messmate – I don't think he mentioned the name – who one day gve him some old journals, scrapbooks, &c., to look through; and among them he found this song, which he copied there and then. Of its origin there was no trace. I more than half suspect that he was himself the author of it. The tune to which he always sang it, and which his successors have of course followed, is, he said, an adaptation of an air in Don Giovanni.' |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 18 Apr 10 - 06:50 PM Everyman's book of sea songs, Baker & Miall, J.M. Dent, 1982. Anchored Anchor's Weigh'd , The A-Roving Asleep In The Deep Bay Of Biscay, The Benbow, The Brother Tar's Song Black-Eyed Susan Blow the Man Down Blow The Wind Southerly Bobby Shaftoe Bristol City Britons, Strike Home! Clear De Track! Constitution And The Guerriere, The Crossing The Bar Deathh Of Nelson, The Drunken Sailor, The Fire Down Below Girls Around Cape Horn, The Golden Vanity, The Haul Away, Joe! Haul The Bowlin'! Heart Of Oak High Barbaree Invincable Armado, The Johnny Come Down To Hilo Lass Thar Loves A Sailor, The Lifeboat Crew, The Life On The Ocean Wave, A Mermaid, The Mobile Bay Nancy Lee Over The Harbor Bar Pilot, The Poor Joe, The Marine Pull For The Shore Rio Grande, The Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep Rule Brirannia Sailor's Complaint, The Saucy Arethusa, The Saved From The Storm Sea is England's Glory, The Shenandoah Ship I Love, The Spanish Ladies Stand To Your Guns! Stormalong Tight Little Island, The To All You Ladies Now On Land Tom Bowling Tom's Gone To Hilo True English Sailor, The We Be Three Poor Mariners When The Boat Comes In Whisky Johnny White Squall, The Will Watch Wreck Of The Hesperus You Gentleman Of England. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: JWB Date: 30 Apr 10 - 10:52 PM Salt Sea Ballads Richard R. Terry J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London, 1931 Collected and edited, with Pianoforte Accompaniment, by Richard Runciman Terry, with a Foreword by Morley Roberts. Admiral Benbow Andrew Carr Antigallican Privateer, The Blaw the wind southerly Bobby Shafty Bosun's Warning, The Cawsand Bay Chesapeake and Shannon, The Chinee Bumboatman, The Cruise of the Calabar, The Don't forget your old shipmate Doo me ama day From Boston Harbour Golden Vanitee, The Here's the tender comin' High Barbaree Hob-a-derry dando Homeward bound I drew my ship into a harbour John Dory Liberty for the sailors Lion man-o'-war, The Ma bonny lad Rolling home Saucy Arethusa, The Spanish ladies Time for us to go When the boat comes in When the stormy winds do blow I obtained this book through interlibrary loan and now have a photocopy of it. Terry was from Northumberland, and this collection contains 10 songs from that region; he states in his introduction: "I have obtained them either aboard ship or from the mouths of seamen ashore." For those 'Catters who might travel to Mystic, CT, for the 31st annual Sea Music Festival, I'll be presenting a paper at the Sea Music Symposium on Friday, June 11, tracing the history of one of the songs in Terry's book. Shipcmo, where have you been all my life? And what are the hours your library is open? Jerry |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Joe Offer Date: 07 May 10 - 08:33 PM shipcmo sent me his Sea Songs Index, indexed by song title. It's quite a piece of work. Use [CTRL-F] to find songs. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: GUEST,Sam W Date: 09 May 10 - 06:59 PM Hi JWB, I dont suppose you could tell me if your version of the version of The Lion man-o'-war in the book has more than 2 verses? I only have two and would be interested to know if there is a third Cheers Sam |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: JWB Date: 13 May 10 - 03:29 PM Guest Sam, In Terry's Salt Sea Ballads the song "The Lion man-o'-war" has 6 verses. They are a variant of the song I know as "Warlike Seamen", which is in the Copper Family's repertoire. The melody Terry gives is not very close to the Coopers's tune. Here's Terry's version: We hadn't sailed twenty or thirty miles from shore, Before we spied a large ship and down on us she bore. She hailèd us in French, my boys, and askèd whence we came. "We've just come round from Plymouth Sound, and the Lion is our name." "Are you the Lion man-o'-war, as we suppose you be?" "We are the Lion man-o'-war as you shall quickly see." "Then haul your colours from the mast and come along with me, Or we'll sink the Lion man-o'-war to the bottom of the sea." Then up and spoke our captain and unto us did say "Cheer up, cheer up, my merry men, we'll show them British play; If this had been mine own brothèr the battle should have been tried; Let every man stand true to his gun, and we'll give them a broadside." The broadside was given, my boys, which made them all to wonder, To see their fore-to'-gallant mast come bowling down like thunder. We beat them from their quarters, no longer could they stay, And the red hot shot poured in so hot, as we showed them British play. "Oh now I plainly see you are a vessel of renown; My ports are all knocked into one and I'll haul my colours down, And my good sword I'll give to you, and we must go ashore, And in the prison we will stay, and go to France no more." So this large ship was taken, in Plymouth Sound 'twas moored; We drank success and liberty to all that live on shore, And hauling down the French colours, to hoist the red, white and blue, We'll drink success unto the Lion and all her jolly crew. Jerry |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: JWB Date: 14 May 10 - 10:45 AM Here is an excerpt from Terry's notes to The Lion Man-o'-war: "A version of the words appears in Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads. The melody and two verses are quoted in L.A. Smith's The Music of the Waters. I do not think it has appeared in print before, with words and music complete." Jerry |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:34 PM Just located a copy of Davis & Tozer in NZ. $275! WOW! |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: shipcmo Date: 20 Oct 10 - 06:37 AM A Book of Shanties, Smith, C. Fox, Methuen & Co., London, 1927. A Sailor's Garland, Masefield, John, BiblioLife, Charlestown, 2010.. Boxing the Compass, Palmer, Roy, Yorkshire, Herron, 2001. Capstan Bars, Bone, David, W Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1932. Chanteying Aboard American Ships, Harlow, F.P., Mystic Seaport, 2004. Everyman's book of sea songs, Baker & Miall, J.M. Dent, 1982. Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, Healy, James N. The Mercier Press, Cork, 1967 Naval Songs, Pond, William A. 1883, Kesssinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints. Naval Songs And Ballads, Firth, C.H., Navy Records Society, 1908, Cornell University, 1991. Pipe All Hands, Zabriskie, Geo. A., "The Doldrums," Ormand Beach, Florida, 1938 "Sailors Chanties", Hutchison, P. A., 1906, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 19, no. 72, Mar. 1906, pp. 16-28. Sailors Songs or 'Chanties', Davis, Frederick J. & Ferris Tozer. Boosey & Co., Ltd., London, 3rd. Ed. 1906 Salt Sea Ballads, Terry, Richard R., J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., London, 1931 Sea Songs And Ballads from Nineteeth Century Nova Scotia, Fowke, Edith, 1981 Sea songs and shanties, Whall, W. B., Glasgow, J. Brown & son, 1920. Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Mystic Seaport , 1994. (abridged) Shanties from the seven seas, Hugill, Stan, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961 Songs of American sailormen, Colcord, Joanna Carver, New York, W. W. Norton & company, inc., 1938. Songs of Sea Labour (Chanties), Bullen, Frank, & W.F. Arnold,. London: Swan & Co. 1914. Songs Of The Sea & Sailors' Chanteys, Frothingham, Robert, Houghton Mifflin Co, Cambridge, 1924. Songs The Whalemen Sang, Huntington, Gale, Mystic Seaport, 2005. The Seven Seas Shanty Book, Sampson, John , Boosey & Co., London, 1927. The Way of the Ship: Shanties and Shantymen, Terry, Richard Runciman, Fireship Press, Tucson, 2008. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Index From: Charley Noble Date: 20 Oct 10 - 09:20 AM Another classic for any armchair sailor would be THE MUSIC OF THE WATERS: a Collection of the Sailors Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations, by Laura A. Smith, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, UK, © 1888. My copy cost $50 but it's well worth the price as the earliest comprehensive study of traditional sea songs. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Oct 10 - 12:12 AM And for those of us who don't have the shelf space, The Music of the Waters is available online - and at Google Books. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Charley Noble Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:28 AM Joe- It is wonderful that so many reference books like THE MUSIC OF THE WATERS are now available on-line, and searchable as such. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 21 Oct 10 - 08:52 AM Shanties and Sailor Songs / Shantys und Seemannslieder http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/shantys.html 15 Mann auf des toten Manns Kiste 15 men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum 23rd of February, The A-Cruising We Will Go A captain bold from Halifax / The Unfortunate Miss Bailey A dollar a day is a stevedore's pay / A Long Time Ago A hundred years is a very long time A is the anchor that holds a bold ship / The Sailor's Alphabet A! la feuille s'envole, s'envole / Les Filles de la Rochelle A landlady of France loved an officer, 'tis said / A Drop of Brandy A life on the ocean wave, a-home on the rolling deep! A long, long time, and a long time ago / A Long Time Ago LD A moi forban que m'importe la gloire / Le Forban A Nantes, à Nantes, vient d'arriver / Brassons Bien Partout Carré A La Rochelle est arrive / Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez! A sailor from Dover, from Dover he came / Proud Sally A schooner was built on the Baltic / Albertina or Skonnert Albertina A wet sheet and a flowing sea A Yankee ship comes down the river / Blow, Bullies, Blow LD Abel Brown, the Sailor Abdul Abulbul Amir Abschied Ach, was ist doch ein Schifferleben / Das Schifferleben Across the Western Ocean CAP Adieu, cher camarade, adieu, faut nous quitter Adieu my fair young maidens / The Holy Ground Adieu, Recouvrance Adieu sweet lovely Nancy Ten Thousand times adieu Adjö, farväl min hulda, kära flicka / Sjömansvisa Admiral Benbow Al twintig jaar vaar ik op de zoute plas / De zoute plas Alabama Alabama John Cherokee Albertina All For Me Grog All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest All things we have ready and nothing we want / Lustily, Lustily Alle die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt gehen Alle segeln nach dem norden / Walfanglied Allez les marins, encor' un p'tit verre Allons à Messine Aloha ohe Als ich an einem Sommertag Als ich stand auf hohem Berge / Die Seemannsbraut Als nach Japon weit entlegen / Xaver Am Indiastrande Amphitrite, The An der Nordseeküste Anchors Aweigh And he kissed her on the face / Baltimore Shanty And it's three score and ten / Three Score and Ten Andrew Rose, the British sailor Another of Seafarers, describing Evil Fortune Antje, mein blondes Kind Après sept années de guerre / Guerre, Guerre, Vent Devant Around Cape Horn we've got to go Arranmore Boat Song, The As I rov'd out one ev'ning fair / The Dark-Eyed Sailor As I strolled out one evening / The Fire Ship As I walked down the Broadway / New York Girls As I was a-walkin' upon a fine day / Little Mohee or Indian Lass As I was walkin' down London Street / Paddy West As I was a-walking down Wapping / Ratcliffe Highway As I went a walking one evening so rare / Fiddler's Green As I went out one evening / One of the Roamin' Kind As ick jung an Johren wär / Südsee-Lied As it fell on a holy day / John Dory As-tu connu le père Winslow At the dawn of the morning Auf dem Atlantik, auf dem weiten Meer / Lili Marleen zur See Auf den Wellen Auf der Reeperbahn Auf einem Seemannsgrab Auf, grüner Jung, reck deine Glieder Auf Matrosen, die Anker gelichtet Away and to the westward / Hills of Isle au Haut Away, haul away, O, haul away together / Haul Away, Joe LD Away, Rio! Balena, The Ballad of Captain Kidd, The Baltimore Shanty Banks of Brandywine, The Banks of Newfoundland, The Banks of Sacramento, The CAP Banks of Sweet Loch Ray, The Banks of the Nile Bark Gay Head, The Barnacle Bill Barrett's Privateers Bay of Biscay, Oh!, The Behold upon the swelling seas / A-Cruising We Will Go Bell Bottom Trousers Ben Backstay was our boatswain Bigler, The Black Ball Line, The Black Susie Blackbird Blaue Nacht, oh blaue Nacht am Hafen Blow, boys, blow Blow, Bullies, Blow Blow the Wind Westerly Blow, Ye Winds Bold Dighton Bold Princess Royal, The Bold Riley Boney was a warrior Bonnie Ship the Diamond, The Boston Harbor Botany Bay Brassons Bien Partout Carré Brave marin revient de guerre British Man O' War Brother Noah, Brother Noah Bully in the Alley Buvons un coup, buvons en deux / Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août Bye-bye, my Roseanna Can't You Dance the Polka? Cape Cod girls they have no combs C'est dans la cale qu'on met les rats / Le Port de Tacoma C'est en passant sur l'pont d'Morlaix / Le Pont de Morlaix C'est Jean-François de Nantes / Jean-François de Nantes Ce sont les filles de Lorient, joli / Les filles de Lorient Ce sont les gars de Senneville / Les gars de Senneville Chanson À Virer Chantons pour passer le temps Cheerily Man Chivalrous Shark, The Clear the Track Coal Black Rose Codfish Shanty Come all my jolly seamen, likewise you landsmen too / The Cumberland and the Merrimac Come all ye jolly sailors brave / The Amphitrite Come all ye seamen bold, and draw near / Admiral Benbow Come all ye young fellow that follow the sea / The Black Ball Line Come all ye young men of learning / Botany Bay Come all you bold fishermen / Song of the Fishes Come all you bold heroes that plough the rough main / Bold Dighton Come all you dry land sailors and listen to me song / The Good Ship Calibar Come all you true-born Shanty boys / Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock Come all you young Americans / The Bark Gay Head Come all you warlike seamen / Warlike Seamen Come cheer up my lads, it's to glory we steer / Heart of Oak Come, messmates, pass the bottle 'round / Farewell To Grogg Common Sailors Congo River Constitution and the Guerrière, The Cumberland and the Merrimac, The Curaçao, 'k heb jou zo menigmaal bekeken Daar was laatst een meisje loos Daeth diwrnod i ffarwelio / Rownd yr Horn Damals, vor unendlich langer Zeit / An der Nordseeküste Dans la côte à la nuit tombée / Mon p'tit Garçon Dans le port il est arrivé Dans mon sac de matelot / l'Harmonica Dark-Eyed Sailor, The Das England Lied Das ist was für Fietje Das kann doch einen Seemann icht erschüttern Das Schiff im Hafen Das Schifflein Das Schifferleben Dat Lögenleed De Beste en maar braafste matroos aan boord / Kleine Theodoor De blaue Flagge weiht De fülwern Flott De grote Buer, de Herr vun't Land De Hamborger Veermaster De Hoffnung weer hunnert Dag unnerwegs De lustige Kock De Noorsche Vullrigger De oole Schipper un sin Söhn De Runner von Hamborg De schipper en de Jonkman De see geiht hoch, de Wind de blast! / De Runner von Hamborg De Vrouw van Schipper Ké De zoute plas Dead Horse, The Deep Blue Sea Den stolte Skute seiler Der alte Seebär Fietje / Das ist was für Fietje Der erfrorene Matrose Der mächtigste König im Luftrevier / U-Boot Lied (Song) Der Schiffer auf dem blanken Rhein Der Störtebecker ist unser Herr Der Tag war grau, der Tag war schwer Der Whisky ist des Seemanns Trost / Whisky Deutsche Flotte durch die Meere / Deutschlands Flotte Deutsches Flaggenlied Deutschlands Flotte Des Kaisers Admiral Die Bank von Sacramento Die Gitarre und das Meer Die hohen Masten und der schlanke Bug / Gorch Fock Lied Die Islandfischer Die Kneipe am Moor Die Reise nach Jütland (2nd version) Die Seemannsbraut Dis is de day we make our pay-day / Gimme de Banjo Dogger Bank, The Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea / The Grey Funnel Line Dor weer eenmal een ohlen Kasten Dreadnought, The Drop of Brandy-O, A Ebenezer, The Eddystone Light, The Edmund Fitzgerald, The Ei oh, faat em an, so Ein kleiner Junge steht stundenlang am Hafen / Ewige Sehnsucht Ein Schärenmädchen bin ich ja Ein Schiff im Hafen am Bollwerk lag / Das Schiff im Hafen Ein Schifflein sah ich fahren Ein Schifflein ziehet leise / Das Schifflein Ein Wind weht von Süd und zieht mich hinaus auf See / La Paloma Eine Seefahrt, die ist lustig Einmal noch nach Bombay Einst stieg ein Mädel wohl in ein Schiff Ellen Vannen Tragedy En quittant Brest et Recouvrance / Adieu, Recouvrance En sjöman älskar havets vaag En toen was er dat kind Encor'et hop et vire / Chanson À Virer Erie Canal, The Es fuhr ein Matrose wohl über das Meer Es geht in den dünen ein ruhloser Sand Es hat der Herr auf Erden Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen Es lag ein Schiff fern an dem Indiastrande / Am Indiastrande Es löscht das Meer die Sonne aus Es murmeln die Wellen, sanft säuselt der Wind / Auf den Wellen Es nahet im Brausen auf hohem Meer / Germania zur See Es rufen uns die freien Wogen Es weht der Wind mit Stärke zehn Es wohnt ein Müller an jenem Teich Essiquibo River is the King of rivers all Eternal Father, Strong to Save Ewige Sehnsucht Faithful Sailor Boy, The Falado, o Falado Farewell and adieu to you / Spanish Ladies Farewell, my dearest Nancy / Banks of the Nile Farewell To Grogg Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill Farewell to you, my own true love / The Leaving of Liverpool Female Smuggler, The Feuer in der Küche / Füer down below! Fiddler's Green Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Fire Down Below Fire Maringo Fire Ship, The Flash Frigate, The Flying Cloud, The Flying P-Line For once I joined a Liverpool ship / Black Susie Frei ist das Meer und die Eisberge fliehn / Wickingerlied Friesenleed From Boston harbor we set sail / Boston Harbor From Liverpool to 'Frisco a-rovin' I went / The Liverpool Judies From the Halls of Montezuma / Marine Hymn Füer down below! Full many a sailor points with pride Gammal purrvisa General Taylor gained the day Germania zur See Gimme de Banjo Girl I Left Behind Me, The Go To Sea No More Golden Vanity, The Goleu Enlli Good night, ladies! Good Ship Calibar, The Goodbye, Fare You Well Goodbye my feleni, o le a ou lea / Samoa Song Gorch Fock Lied Gott mit uns, und wir mit Gott Greenland Whale Fisheries Grey Funnel Line, The Guerre, Guerre, Vent Devant Gwynt o'r de a'r glaw yn fan / Goleu Enlli Haal'em maar mee Hafenunterricht Hamburg, du schöne Stadt Handsome Cabin Boy, The Hanging Johnny LD Hardi, les gars, vire au guindeau Haul Away, Joe LD Haul on the bo'lin', the fore and maintop bo'lin' / Haul on the Bowline Have you heard of a ship called the good / Reuben James Have you heard the news, my Johnny / One More Day He Kapitein we nemen nog een borrel Heart of Oak Heave away me bully boys / Round the Bay of Mexico Hebbt ji den noorschen Vullrigger sehn? / De Noorsche Vullrigger Hebbt ji von de sülwern Flott woll all hört / De fülwern Flott Heia hebei, hebei, heia / Lied der Elb-Schiffstrecker Heidewitzka, Herr Kapitän Heimweh nach Sankt Pauli Hem till Justina, hem till de mina / Sjömansfaang Henry Martin Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowline / Tom Bowline Here's adieu sweet lovely Nancy Heurt mol to all', Kinnerslüd / So'n ganz lütt beten Backbord Heut' lief ein Schiff in den Hafen Heute an Bord, morgen gehts fort Heute nacht verläßt mein Schiff den Hafen / Aloha ohe Heute wollen wir ein Liedchen singen High Barbary, The Highland Laddie Hills of Isle au Haut Hilo, Johnny Brown HMS Hood, The Hog-Eye Man, The Holder Jüngling, willst du fliehen / Abschied Holy Ground, The Homeward Bound Hör, Söhn, hier hest du min Kalljoot / De oole Schipper un sin Söhn Hourra les filles à dix deniers How can my poor heart be glad / On The Seas And Far Away How pleasant a sailor's life passes / Why Should We Quarrel For Riches I am a brisk and sprightly lad I am as poor a distressed maid / The Banks of Sweet Loch Ray I am a young sailor, my story is sad / Blackbird I came down to Bowery one evening in July / Can't You Dance the Polka? I come from Salem City I dreamed my love came in my sleep / Lowlands I heard, I heard, the old man say / John Kanaka I neber see de like since I been born / Johnny Come Down to Hilo I Popped Out I shipped on board of th' Ebenezer / The Ebenezer I sing of a frigate, a frigate of fame / The Flash Frigate I used to be a sailor, I sailed upon the sea / I Popped Out I was broke and out of a job / Paddy Get Back Im Wald bin i gsessn, und is Herz war mir schwer Ich ging einmal die Straße lang / Die Bank von Sacramento Ich hab' ein Schiff gesehen / St. Niklas war ein Seemann Ich heff mol een Hamborger Veermaster sehn / De Hamborger Veermaster Ich will Euch die Story berichten / Rum aus Jamaika Ich will nicht länger traurig sein / Sehnsucht Ick gung eenstmol von Hamborg ut If you want to join a merchant ship / Lime Juice Ship Ik keem vun de Reis' Ik kwam lest over een berg gegaan Ik moest van vader naar de zee / Haal'em maar mee Il était deux amants / Allons à Messine Il était un petit navire / Le petit navire Im englischen Kanale, da segelte 'ne Brigg / Seemannsweise I'm the man before the mast / Common Sailors In Amerstdam there dwells a maid / Maid of Amsterdam In Callao there lives a gal whose name is Serafina / Serafina In der Heimat an der Waterkant / Nimm uns mit Kapitän In eighteen-hundred and sixty-one / Roll, Alabama, Roll In fourteen hundred and ninety-two / Christofo Columbo In Hamborg geiht dat lustig her / Dat Lögenleed In Hamburg, da bin ich gewesen In Johnny's Kneipe bei Bier und Pfeife In May of nineteen forty-one the war had just begun / Sink The Bismark In Praise of Seafaring Men, in Hope of Good Fortune In South Australia I was born / South Australia Indian Lass Irgendwo in fremden Land It was down in yonder meadow / British Man O' War It was early, early all in the Spring / My Boy Willie It was Friday morn when we set sail / The Mermaid It was in the year of forty-four / The Whale It ofttimes has been told / The Constitution and the Guerrière It's a damned tough life, full of toil and strife / Rolling Down to Old Maui It's of a pretty fair maid / The Handsome Cabin Boy It's our time to go now / Sailors Farewell Hymn Ivan Skavinsky Skavar Ja, ja, ja Jack the Guinea Pig Jackie Brown Jean-François de Nantes Jimmy Braun, das war ein Seemann / Die Gitarre und das Meer John Cherokee was an Indian man / Alabama John Cherokee John Dory Johnny Boker SD Johnny Come Down to Hilo John Kanaka Juchhei lustig, seggt he, ick bün Kock, seggt he / De lustige Kock Kaiser und Admiral heimwärts und überall Kameraden auf See Kameraden, wann seh'n wir uns wieder / Die Kneipe am Moor Käpt'n Kidd Kari waits for me Klaus Störtebecker ist unser Herr Kleine Theodoor L'ame de nos marins / L'âme Des Marins La belle se promène, au fond de son jardin / Sur les bords de la Loire La Paloma Le Capitaine de Saint-Malo Le corsaire "Le Grand Coureur" / Le Grand Coureur Le Forban Le Grand Coureur Le Harmonica Le Marinier de Couëron Le petit navire Le Pont de Morlaix Le Port de Tacoma Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août Leaving of Liverpool, The Leise kommt die Nacht Les Corsaires Les Filles de la Rochelle Les filles de Lorient Les gars de Senneville Les marins de notre ville Let The Bulgine Run Les Trois Caps Lied der Elb-Schiffstrecker Lift him up and carry him along / Fire Maringo Lili Marleen zur See Lime Juice Ship Lisbon Little Mohee Liverpool Judies, The Long Time Ago, A LD Loss of the U.S. Sloop of War Hornet!!! Lowlands Lustig auf den blauen Wogen / Seemannsbegräbnis Lustily, Lustily Mädel, kannst du küßen? / Schön ist die Liebe im Hafen Magelhann Maggie May Maid of Amsterdam Marine Hymn Matelot le vent est bon / Satanicles Me father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light / The Eddystone Light Mein Liebster ist der Hochbootsmann / Schwedisches Schifferlied Melbourne girls, they have no combs / Codfish Shanty Mermaid, The Mien Naam weer Käpt'n Kidd / Käpt'n Kidd Mon p'tit Garçon My boat's by the tower / Pirate Song My Bonny is over the ocean My Boy Willie My Johnny is a shoemaker My name is Arthur Hollandin, as you may understand / The Flying Cloud My name was William Kidd / The Ballad of Captain Kidd Nancy Lee New York Girls Nimm uns mit Kapitän Nobleman's Daughter, The Norfolk Girls, The Nous irons à Valparaiso Now coil up your nonsense / Charge the Can Cheerily Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town / Quare Bungle Rye Now the Chesapeake so bold / The Shannon and the Chesapeake Now you jolly sailor lads, come listen to my tale / Maggie May O, a drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm / Roll the Old Chariot Along O across the west'ard I served my time / Roll the Cotton Down O Aegir, Herr der Fluten / Sang an Aegir O, as I walked down the Landing Stage / We're All Bound to Go O! blow, my boys, I long to hear you! / Blow, boys, blow O, Boston's a fine town, with ships in the bay / Home, Dearie, Home O bury me not in the deep deep sea / The Ocean Burial O, come, list' awhile, and you soon shall hear / The Female Smuggler O, do, my Johnny Boker / Johnny Boker O, fare you well, I wish you well! / Goodbye, Fare You Well O fare you well, my own true love / Ten Thousand Miles O! go fetch me down my riding cane / The Hog-Eye Man O, I'm going to leave her / Shallow Brown O, in eighteen hundred and forty-one / Paddy Works on the Railway CAP O lenke durch die Welle, Fidelin! / O, pescator dell'onde O, me Rosie, coal black rose / Coal Black Rose O mit mein niggerum beggerum stinkum / Ja, ja, ja O! my boat can swiftly float / The Queen of Connemara O Nancy Dawson, Hio! / Cheerily Man O, pescator dell'onde O, poor old Reuben Ranzo / Reuben Ranzo LD O, Sally Brown, of New York City / Sally Brown O, Santa Anna fought for fame / The Plains of Mexico or Santa Anna O Schipmann! O, Shenandoah, I long to hear you / Shenandoah O, Stormy's gone, that good old man / Stormalong O! The smartest packet ye can find / Clear the Track O, the times are hard and the wages low / Across the Western Ocean O, the work was hard and the wages low / Time to Leave Her O the year was 1778 / Barrett's Privateers O there was a lofty ship and a lofty ship was she / The Golden Vanity O, Tommy's gone, what shall I do / Tommy's Gone to Hilo O was you ever on the Congo River / Congo River O, we're going on board the Roseabella / The Roseabella Oh, where am I goin' to sleep tonight / Abel Brown, the Sailor O, whiskey is the life of man / Whiskey for My Johnny Ob Sturm uns bedroht hoch vom Norden / Auf einem Seemannsgrab Ocean Burial, The Of all the wives as e'er you know / Nancy Lee On the fourteenth of February we sailed from the land / The Bold Princess Royal On the noble fleet of whalers out sailing from Dundee / The Balena On The Seas And Far Away On the Sunday morning, just at the hour of ten / The Bigler One More Day One morning very early / The Banks of Brandywine One of the Roamin' Kind Op wieringen daar woonde / De Vrouw van Schipper Ké Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are all set / Bold Riley Our topsails reef'd and filled away / The Norfolk Girls Paddy Doyle Paddy Get Back Paddy West Paddy Works on the Railway Passant par Paris, vidant la bouteille Pauvre Marinier Pirate Song Pirates Pipe all hands to man the windlass / Rolling Home Plains of Mexico, The CAP Pleasant And Delightful Poor Joe, the marine, was at Portsmouth well known / Poor Joe the Marine Proud Sally Quand je suis parti de La Rochelle Quare Bungle Rye Queen of Connemara, The Qui les trois caps a passé / Les Trois Caps Quinze marins sur l'bahut du mort Ratcliffe Highway Reise, Reise Rejs opp en man av den babordska vakten! / Gammal purrvisa Reuben James Reuben Ranzo Rio Grande Roll, Alabama, Roll Roll the Cotton Down Roll the Old Chariot Along Roll the Woodpile Down Rolling Down to Old Maui Rolling Home Rolling Home Roseabella, The Roulez, Jeunes Gens, Roulez! Round the Bay of Mexico Rownd yr Horn Rum aus Jamaika Saill! home, as straight as an arrow / White Wings Sailing, Sailing Sailing over the Dogger Bank / The Dogger Bank Sailor Likes His Bottle, The Sailor's Alphabet, The Sailor's Farewell, The Sailor's Farewell Hymn Sailor's Prayer Saint Nazaire Sankt Niklas war ein Seemann Sally Brown Sally, she'm the gal that I love dearly / Hilo, Johnny Brown Samoa Song Sang an Aegir Santa Anna Santa Lucia Satanicles Schärenmädchen Schiffchen in die Weite willst du zieh'n Schifferabend Schifferlied Schipper ik wil varen schipper ik wil mee / De schipper en de Jonkman Schon glänzt das Mondenlicht am Himmelsbogen / Santa Lucia Schön ist die Liebe im Hafen Schon viele Male fuhr ich um die Erde rum / Heimweh nach Sankt Pauli Schönster Jüngling willst Du ziehen Schwedisches Schifferlied Schwer mit den Schätzen des Orients beladen Seemann, deine Heimat ist das Meer Seemannsbegräbnis Seemannsweise Sehnsucht Serafina Shallow Brown Shannon and the Chesapeake, The Shenandoah Shoals Of Herring, The Silbern klingt und springt die Heuer / Auf der Reeperbahn Sing and heave, and heave and sing / The Banks of Sacramento Sing ho! for a brave an' a gallant ship / Ten Thousand Miles Away Singing bell bottom trousers / Bell Bottom Trousers Sink The Bismark Sir Richard Grenville's Farewell Sitt de See-lüd obens mol / Un denn segelt wi so langsam rund Kap Horn Sjömansfaang Sjömansvisa Skonnert Albertina Snaefell Tynwald, Ben-my-Chree / Ellen Vannen Tragedy So‚ help me Bob, I'm bully in the alley / Bully in the Alley So'n ganz lütt beten Backbord Song of the Fishes Sont des hommes de grand courage / Les Corsaires South Australia Spanish Ladies Stand Navy down the field / Anchors Aweigh Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak Stately Southerner Stolz weht die Flagge Schwarz-Weiß-Rot / Deutsches Flaggenlied Stormalong Stormy Weather Boys Strike the Bell Südsee-Lied Sur les bords de la Loire Ten Thousand Miles Ten Thousand Miles Away The anchor is weighed, and the sails they are set / Away, Rio! The boats are sailing around the bend / Bye-bye, my Roseanna The breeze was fresh, the ship was in stays / The Token The dames of France are fond and free / The Girl I Left Behind Me The day that I left my home for the rolling sea / La Paloma The Diamond is a ship me lads / The Bonnie Ship the Diamond The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / The Edmund Fitzgerald The Mate was drunk, and he went below / The Sailor Likes His Bottle, Oh The most chivalrous fish in the ocean / The Chivalrous Shark The Pilot he looks out ahead / Whup Jamboree The Pilot he looks out ahead / Whup Jamboree, American The sea is England's glory! The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold / Abdul Abulbul Amir / Ivan Skavinsky Skavar The topman and the afterguard were walking one day / Topman and the Afterguard There is fire in the lower hold / Fire Down Below There were three brothers in merry Scotland / Henry Martin There were two lofty ships / The High Barbary There's a flash packet, a flash packet of fame / The Dreadnought They call me Hanging Johnny / Hanging Johnny LD They say old man your horse will die / The Dead Horse LD This dirty town has been my home / Sailor's Prayer Three Score and Ten Time to Leave Her 'Tis advertised in Boston / Blow, Ye Winds 'Tis of a Nobleman's daughter / The Nobleman's Daughter 'Tis of a stately Southerner who flew the Stripes and Stars / Stately Southerner To my, Aye, and we'll furl / Paddy Doyle SD To Pensacola town we'll bid adieu / Homeward Bound Token, The Tom Bowline Tommy's Gone to Hilo Topman and the Afterguard Trois matelots du port de Brest 'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty-three / Greenland Whale Fisheries 'Twas on a dark and stormy night / The Faithful Sailor Boy 'Twas on a Monday morning, all in the month of May / Lisbon Twas pleasant and delightful one midsummer's morn / Pleasant And Delightful U-Boat Lied (Song) Und denn segelt wi so langsam rund Kap Horn Und ob der Sturm auch manche nacht Unfortunate Miss Bailey, The Unsern Bootsman de sie Kruutsack Up aloft amid the rigging / Rolling Home Up jumps a crab with his crooked legs / Blow the Wind Westerly Up on the poop deck and walking about / Strike the Bell Viele Leut' vom Binnenlande kennen einen Hafen nicht / Hafenunterricht Vinden drar, skeppet far Voici mon navire qui nage / Pauvre Marinier Vous soupirez les filles / Saint Nazaire Vun Hamborg fohr so 'n ollen Kasten Walfanglied War einst ein junger Bootsmann Warlike Seamen Was macht man mit 'nem betrunk'nen Seemann? Was you ever in Quebec / Highland Laddie Was you ever in Rio Grande? / Rio Grande Way down south where the cocks do crow / Roll the Woodpile Down We Be Three Poor Mariners Well it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog / All For Me Grog Wenn bei Sturm und Wetterlicht / Wo es Mädels gibt, Kameraden We were forty miles from Albany / The Erie Canal We're All Bound to Go We're laying in Surrey Dock one day / Stormy Weather Boys Wer entert als Cadett zur See / Des Kaisers Admiral Wer geht mit, juchhe, über See? Wer will mit uns nach Island gehn / Die Islandfischer West Zuid-West van Ameland Whale, The What pen can well report the plight / Another of Seafarers, describing Evil Fortune What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor? When first I landed in Frisco Bay / Go To Sea No More When HMS Hood went down in the deep / The HMS Hood When I first landed in Liverpool / Jackie Brown When I was a lad I served a term When the Alabama's keel was laid / Alabama When the anchor's weigh'd / Jack the Guinea Pig Whiskey for My Johnny Whisky LD White Wings Who seeks the way to win renown / Sir Richard Grenville's Farewell Who'll make his mark the Captain cried / Pirates Who's that knocking at my door? / Barnacle Bill Whup Jamboree, English Whup Jamboree, American Why Should We Quarrel For Riches Wi fohrt bi de Flying P-Line / Flying P-Line Wickingerlied Wie mit grimmgem Unverstand Wie wil er mee naar Wieringen varen / Wieringen Wiegende Wellen auf wogender See Wieringen Wildes, schäumendes, brausendes Meer / Wiegt mich ihr Wogen Wir fahren übers weite Meer Wir lagen vor Madagaskar Wir lieben die Stürme, die brausende Wogen Wir sind Kameraden auf See / Kameraden auf See With our nets and gear we're faring / The Shoals Of Herring With swelling sail, away, away! / The Arranmore Boat Song Wo die Nordseewellen Wo es Mädels gibt, Kameraden Xaver Y avait un' fois un marinier / Le Marinier de Couëron Y'heave ho! My lads, the wind blows free / Sailing, Sailing Ye gentlemen of England who live home / The Bay of Biscay, Oh! Ye mariners all, as ye pass by Ye Parliament of England, You Lords and Commons Ye seamen and ye landsmen all / Loss of the U.S. Sloop of War Hornet!!! Yo no digo que mi barca se a You bully boys of Liverpool / The Banks of Newfoundland Young Monroe at Gerry's Rock Zondagmorgen kregen we de loods aan boord Zu Kiautschau um Mitternacht Zum Geburtstage Sr. Hoheit, des Prinzen Heinrich von Preußen Zum Meere zog der Zollernsproß |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: GUEST,Gallus Moll Date: 21 Oct 10 - 07:16 PM In Scotland, a chanty is something placed below the bed in lieu of an upstairs lavatory! |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: dick greenhaus Date: 22 Oct 10 - 12:43 PM Jolly Sailors Bold, Stuart Frank, 2010 Chapter One — Classical Songs of the Sea: An Eighteenth-Century Garland 1 1. Black-Eyed Susan [Dark-Eyed Susan] 2 2. Tom Bowling [Poor Tom] (Dibdin) 5 3. Bay of Biscay O 7 4. The Storm [Cease, Rude Boreas] 8 5. Henry Martin [Salt Sea] (Child #250) 10 6. The Bold Trinity (Child #286) 13 7. High Barbary (Child #285; Laws #K-33) 16 8. Spanish Ladies [Farewell and Adieu] 18 Chapter Two — The Girl I Left Behind Me: Songs About Women 21 9. The Girl I Left Behind Me 23 10. The Lily of Lake Champlain 25 11. The Norfolk Girls 28 12. My Dream 30 13. My Wife—A Song 31 14. Lines to Mary 33 15. The Carpenter and the Maid 34 16. The Milking Maid 36 17. Frozen Limb 37 18. Can Ladies Be Compared to Man ? 38 Chapter Three — The Sailors' Farewell: Songs of Parting 39 19. The Lowlands of Holland 40 20. The Nantucket Mother and Daughter 43 21. The Banks of the Schuylkill 45 22. West's Farewell 47 23. The British Man-of-War [The Yankee Man-of-War] 48 24. The Captain Calls All Hands 51 25. Farewell, Charming Nancy (Laws #K-14) 53 26. Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy 55 27. My Mary Ann [Mary Ann] 57 28. Outward Bound 59 29. The Sailor Boy's Farewell 60 30. The Ship Is Ready 62 31. Caledonia [Jamie Raeburn's Farewell] 64 Chapter Four — Jolly Sailors Bold: Deepwater Songs and Ballads 66 32. Jolly Sailors Bold [Sailors' Come-All-Ye] 67 33. Boston ['Twas on the Twenty-First of May] 71 34. Captain Avery 74 35. The Brooklyn 75 36. The Dreadnought (Laws #D-13) 77 37. Eighteen Hundred Forty-Nine 80 38. Unmooring [The Boatswain's Call] 81 39. The Loss of the Ramillies (Laws #K-1) 84 40. Prince Edward's Isle 86 41. Homeward Bound 88 42. We'll Soon Be There 89 43. Sweet America 90 Chapter Five — Heave Away, My Hearties: Deepwater Chanteys 91 44. The Sailor's Alphabet 92 45. Goodbye, Fare Ye Well 95 46. Heave Away [We're All Bound to Go] 97 47. Reuben Ranzo 99 48. Old Horse 101 49. Homeward Bound and Outward Bound 104 50. Homeward Bound (II) 107 Chapter Six — Battle Pieces: Naval, Military, and Patriotic Ballads 109 51. Paul Jones's Victory (Laws #A-4) 110 52. Constitution and Guerriere (Laws #A-6) 113 53. Columbia's Ships 115 54. The Sinking of the Commodore 117 55. The Hills of Chilia 118 56. The Somers 119 57. The Monitor and the Merrimac 122 58. Lee's Invasion of Maryland 125 59. Florida's Crew [The Florida's Cruise] 127 60. Navy Song [We Ride Head to Wind] 130 Chapter Seven — A Bonny Bunch of Roses: Napoleonic Songs and Ballads 131 61. Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 132 62. Bonaparte on the Isle of St. Helena 133 63. Bonny Bunch of Roses O (Laws #J-5) 135 64. The Drummer Boy of Waterloo (Laws #J-1) 137 65. Napoleon's Dream [Bonaparte's Dream] 139 66. The Green Linnet (O'Neill #1262) 142 Chapter Eight — Tarry Trousers: Ballads of Lovers Lost and Lovers Spurned 145 67. Lady Franklin's Lament (Laws #K-9) 146 68. The Sailor Bride's Lament (Laws #K-10) 151 69. The Sailor Boy (Laws #K-12) 153 70. Mary's Dream (Laws #K-20) 156 71. The Maid on the Shore (Laws #K-27) 158 72. Green Beds [Young Johnny] (Laws #K-36) 160 73. The Sailor and the Country Girl (Laws #K-38) 162 74. The Maiden's Pride Punished 164 75. Bright Phoebe 165 76. Tarry Trousers [The Mother and Daughter] 166 Chapter Nine — Love Impeded: Ballads of Family Opposition to Lovers 169 77. Early, Early in the Spring (Laws #M-1) 170 78. William and Harriet (Laws #M-7) 171 79. The Banks of Sweet Dundee (Laws #M-25) 173 80. The Bold Soldier (Laws #M-27) 177 81. Vilikins and His Dinah (Laws #M-31b) 179 82. The Constant Farmer's Son (Laws #M-33) 181 83. Edwin in the Lowlands Low (Laws #M-34) 183 Chapter Ten — Love Entangled: Ballads of Lovers' Disguises and Tricks 185 84. Jack Munroe (Laws #N-7) 185 85. The Silk Merchant's Daughter (Laws #N-10) 188 86. The Handsome Cabin Boy (Laws #N-13) 193 87. The Noble Duke (Laws #N-15) 195 88. The Prince of Morocco [The Sailor Boy's Trick] (Laws #N-18) 197 89. The Dark-Eyed Sailor (Laws #N-35) 200 90. The Mantle So Green (Laws #N-38) 203 91. The Pride of Glencoe (Laws #N-39) 205 Chapter Eleven — The Jolly Roving Tar: Ballads of Faithful and Unfaithful Lovers 207 92. Cuper's Garden [Cobit's Garden] 208 93. The Lass of Mohee (Laws #H-8) 211 94. The Jacket of Blue 215 95. Ellen the Fair (Laws #O-5) 217 96. The Sailor and the Shepherdess (Laws #O-8) 218 97. The Jolly Sailor 220 98. The Sailor's Return 221 99. Green Mossy Banks of the Lea (Laws #O-15) 222 100. The Bold Fisherman (Laws #O-24) 224 101. The Jolly Roving Tar (Laws #O-27) 225 102. The Bold Privateer (Laws #O-32) 226 103. William Riley 227 104. Jemmy on the Sea 229 105. The Sailor and the Tailor (Laws #P-4) 231 106. The Pride of Kildare (Laws #P-6) 232 107. The Rakish Young Fellow 234 108. Mary of the Wild Moor (Laws #P-21) 236 109. Caroline of Edinburgh Town (Laws #P-27) 237 110. Oxford City (Laws #P-30) 239 111. Jack Robinson 240 Chapter Twelve — Terra Incognita: Comic and Convivial Songs 242 112. All Around The Room [Ellen Taylor] 243 113. Charming Jane Louisa 246 114. The Cove Wot Spouts 248 115. I Am One of the Boys [One of the Boys] 249 116. Sailors Ashore 251 117. He Is Only Gone Home with a Friend 252 118. Jayne's Hair Tonic [Dr. Jayne's Hair Tonic] 253 119. Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl 254 120. Lannigan's Ball [Lanigan's Ball] 255 121. The Wild Rover 257 Chapter Thirteen — Lubbers and Swabs: Miscellaneous Songs and Curiosities 258 122. The Cobbler 259 123. Dick Turpin's Bonny Black Bess (Laws #L-9) 261 124. Dick Turpin and the Lawyer (Laws #L-10) 263 125. Johnny Sands (Laws #Q-3) 264 126. The Farmer's Boy (Laws #Q-30) 266 127. Doran's Ass 268 128. Limerick Races 270 129. The Pearl of the Sea 272 130. Et Tu Bruce 273 131. There's Changes in the Mill 275 132. Go Down Moses [Let My People Go] 276 133. The Parson's Narrative 278 Chapter Fourteen — There She Blows: Classic Whaling Songs 281 134. The Greenland Whale Fishery (Laws #K-21) 282 135. Arctic Whaling Song 285 136. The Coast of Peru (Laws #D-26) 287 137. Diego's Bold Shores 291 138. There She Blows [The Wounded Whale] 293 139. Blow Ye Winds ['Tis Advertised In Boston] 296 140. The Bold Harpooner [Captain Bunker] 300 141. The Wonderful Whale [Jack and the Whale] 302 142. How to Catch a Whale 304 143. Rolling Down to Old Mohee 306 144. No Ke Ano Ahiahi [Hawaiian Song] 311 Chapter Fifteen — The Whaleman's Lament: Original Whaling Songs 315 145. One Year in a Blubber Hunter 316 146. The Aurora's Whaling Song 318 147. The Schooner Varnum Hill 319 148. Stanzas from the Mermaid 322 149. On a Passage to the Crozet Islands 323 150. Cape Horn 325 151. Address to Young Sailors 326 152. The Lay System 327 153. Landsmen One and All 328 154. The Whaleman's Lament 329 155. I and Betty Martin 331 156. Indian Ocean Whaling Song 333 157. Bowhead Whaling Song 335 158. All the Whales Are Wild and Ugly 338 159. A Song of the Hatteras Whale 339 160. I Was Once a Sailor Lad 340 Chapter Sixteen — "Plenty of Music": Two Voyages of the Bark Kathleen 342 161. A Voyage on New Holland 344 162. Song Composed aboard the Bark Kathleen 353 Chapter Seventeen — "Musick on the Brain": Frederick Howland Smith's Tune List 357 163. Fisher's Hornpipe (O'Neill #1575, 1576) 359 164. The White Cockade (O'Neill #1803) 360 165. Zip Coon [Turkey in the Straw] 361 166. Rory O'More (O'Neill #856) 361 167. Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be? 362 168. Harvest Home Waltz 363 169. Soldier's Joy (O'Neill #1642) 363 170. Pop! Goes the Weasel 364 171. Yankee Doodle 365 172. Russian Waltz 367 173. The Poor Old Slave 367 174. Nelly Gray [Darling Nelly Gray] 369 175. Nelly Bly (Foster) 372 176. Augusta's Favorite 373 177. Oh! Susanna [Susanna] (Foster) 373 178. Fanny Elssler Leaving New Orleans 374 179. Off She Goes (O'Neill #914) 376 180. The Old Leather Breeches (O'Neill #167, 763) 377 181. Home, Sweet Home 378 182. Old Folks at Home [Swanee River] (Foster) 379 Chapter Eighteen — Hurrah For the Sea: Parlor Songs of Ships and Seafaring 380 183. The Heart that Can Feel for Another 383 184. Bounding Billows, Cease Your Motion 384 185. Lashed to the Helm 385 186. Saturday Night at Sea [The Sailor Boy] 386 187. The Minute Gun at Sea 387 188. Steady She Goes 389 189. True Yankee Sailor [True British Sailor] 390 190. The White Squall 391 191. The Sailor's Consolation [Barney Buntline] 393 192. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 395 193. The Sea [The Sea, the Sea, the Open Sea] 397 194. The Sailor Boy's Last Dream 399 195. Over the Mountain Wave 401 196. Poor Bessy [The Parting] 402 197. The Fisher's Wife [The Fisherman] 403 198. A Life on the Ocean Wave 405 199. The Sailor Boy's Carol 406 200. The Soldier's Tear 407 201. The Sailor's Tear 409 202. Hurrah for the Sea [A Home on the Mountain Wave] 410 203. Away, Away o'er the Boundless Deep [The Buccaneer's Bride] 413 204. I'm Afloat, I'm Afloat [The Rover of the Sea] 415 205. The Pirate of the Isles 417 206. The Robbers of the Glen 419 207. Pirates' Chorus (Balfe) 421 208. The Life of a Tar 421 209. Our Way Across the Sea 422 210. Jamie's on the Stormy Sea 423 211. Willie's on the Dark Blue Sea 425 212. Good News from Home 426 Appendix 1 Nature and Nancy: Dibdin's Songs 429 213. The Signal to Engage 430 214. Poor Jack 431 215. Saturday Night at Sea 433 216. Who Cares? 434 217. Nature and Nancy 436 218. The Lass that Loves A Sailor 437 Appendix 2 How Cheery Are the Mariners: Sailors' Parlor Songs of Seafaring 439 219. The Sailor 440 220. How Cheery Are the Mariners 441 221. On New Year's Day 441 222. The Sailor Is a Wanderer Free 442 223. O Think of the Sailor 442 224. We're Bounding o'er the Dark Blue Sea 443 225. The Sailor on the Ocean Wide 443 226. The Mariner's Song [Gaily We Go] 444 227. A Seaman's Life 444 228. Farewell to the Arctic 445 Appendix 3 The King of the Boundless Sea: Selected Whaling Poems 446 229. The King of the Southern Sea 447 230. The Sailor Boy's Dream 448 |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:23 AM The Shanty Book Part I Sailor Shanties Collected and Edited, with Pianoforte Accompaniment, by RICHARD RUNCIMAN TERRY, with a Foreword by SIR WALTER RUNCIMAN, Bart. LONDON J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 24 Berners Street, W. 1 Copyright, 1921, by J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. Billy Boy 2 Blow, my bully boys 32 Blow the man down 34 Boney was a warrior 54 Bound for the Rio Grande 4 Cheer'ly, men 36 Clear the track, let the Bullgine run 10 Dead Horse, The 48 Good-bye, fare ye well 6 Good morning, ladies all 38 Hanging Johnny 40 Haul away, Joe 56 Hilo Somebody 42 Hog's-eye Man, The 24 Johnny Boker 55 Johnny come down to Hilo 8 Lowlands away 12 Oh run, let the Bullgine run 44 Paddy Doyle's boots 59 Reuben Ranzo 46 Sally Brown 16 Santy Anna 18 Shenandoah 20 Stormalong John 22 Tom's gone to Hilo 50 We'll haul the bowlin' 58 We're all bound to go 28 What shall we do with the drunken sailor? 30 Whisky Johnny 52 Wild Goose Shanty, The 26 |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 29 Oct 10 - 07:28 AM Almost forgot: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20774/20774-h/20774-h.htm |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 09 Jan 11 - 06:31 AM "Around Cape Horn to Honolulu on The Bark Amy Turner 1880", L. Vernon Briggs, 1926 "Old Horse", p44, "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?", p86-7 "The Ship "Neptune"", 87-9 "As I Was A Walking Up Dennison Street", p89-91 "Ranzo". p92-4 "Orenso", p95-8 "Haul Away, Joe", p98-100 "Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow", p100-02 "Whiskey for My Johnny", p103-04 "Santa Anna on the Plains of Mexico", p170-2 I came upon the reference to this book in the Carpenter Online Catalog. (words only) |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 09 Jan 11 - 06:53 AM Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1952 Volume 2 (words only) The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) The Golden Willow Tree The Lonesome Low Cabin Boy Lowland Lonesome Low The Mermaid The Faithful Sailor Boy Captain Kidd High Barbary Lost on the Lady Elgin The Ship That Never Returned Paul Jones The Florence C. McGee Volume 3 (words only) I'll Fire Dis Trip (Fire down below) Haul, Haul, Haul, Boys Old Horse, Old Horse For Six Days Do All That Thou Art Able Alphabet Of The Ship Whip Jamboree I Have A Father In My Native Land ('A Sailor's Chantey') Sal's In The Garden Sifting Sand Volume 4 (music) The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) The Turkish Revoloo The Golden Willow Tree The Lonesome Low The Lonesome Low (second version) Cabin Boy The Mermaid Stormy Winds The Faithful Sailor Boy The Sailor Boy High Barbary The Ship That Never Returned Paul Jones The Florence C. McGee Volume 5 (music) I'll Fire Dis Trip (Fire down below) Alphabet Of The Ship Whip Jamboree Blow the Man Down Hanging Johnnie Haul Away, Joe What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor? When Johnnie Comes Down to Hilo Whiskey Johnny |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 09 Jan 11 - 07:37 AM Sailors' Shanties And Sea-Songs, Chambers's Journal, Dec 11, 1869, pages 795-796 words only: Haul the Bowline We're Outward Bound On the Banks of the Sacremento Rio Grande Slapandergosheka Highland Day So Handy mentioned: Valparaiso Round the Horn Santa Anna Oceanida Johnny's Gone The Black Ball Line Land O, Boys, Land O Haul away, my Josey plus a number of Forebitters & Parlor songs |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:36 AM I have my hands on a copy of Davis & Tozer that I believe is probably the same version Q posted at the top of this thread. It is the "Revised Edition," not the Third. I believe it (or at least the one I have) can be dated to around 1927 -- unless it is a reprint of that edition. Some of the interesting things are that W.K. Hill, in his preface, makes reference to "the lover of folk music" and to "folk songs." I don't know for sure, but that doesn't sound to me like 1906 talk. And he says "As long ago as the year 1887..." in reference to the first edition. That sounds too distant a past for 1906. He says that aircraft was only a dream back then, but that now there is a "conquest of the air" -- which suggest tome after WWI. The back of the book has ads for other publications. (Again, I suppose this could be a reprint, so, FWIW:) One add is for Sampson's _Seven Seas Shanty Book_ which came out in 1927. Also an ad for Davis & Tozer's own book, with a note that the original had appeared almost 40 years earlier. Ads for other musical arrangements of chanties, too, always with the redundant phrase "sea shanties" that one imagines had become popular by that time as they were adopted as "folk" music. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 14 Feb 11 - 09:33 AM Some Nineteenth Century Shanties, Hatfield, James Taft, The Journal of American Folklore,Vol. 59, 1946 Blow A Man Down Rio Grande Fire Down Below Shiny O! Sally Brown Nancy Rhee Bound To Go South Australia Shake Her Up Way Down Low Whiskey Johnny |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Lighter Date: 14 Feb 11 - 10:26 AM Gibb, belated agreement that your D & T must be from '27, not '06, for most all the reasons you give. It's also useful to see the publisher explicitly dating the first edition to 1887. When it appeared it was undated, and though 1887 was always the most likely date, this confirms it. Acc. to WorldCat, ed. 1 has 48pp., ed. 2, 78pp., ed. 3, 95pp., and the "Revised Edition," 97pp. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: shipcmo Date: 15 Feb 11 - 11:55 PM Ten Shanties Sung on the Australian Run 1879, Haswell, George H., The Antipodes Press, Perth. 1992. Heave Away, My Johnny Haulin' The Bowlin Handy Jim Haul Away The Dead Horse The Requiem Bonny Whisky Blow The Man Down Ranzo Good Bye Fare Ye Well |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 06 Mar 11 - 02:21 AM There are a few collections/articles about chanties from the early 20th century that I'd like to review, but have not yet obtained. Would anyone like to share information about the contents of the following?: 1. 1904 Bradford, John and Arthur Fagge. _Old Sea Chanties._ London: Metzler & Co. A small collection of just 17 pages. I believe it contains at least the following chanties, which were recorded ca. 1905 by the Minster Singers (see the thread on "Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings"): "Blow, My Bully Boys" "Sally Brown" "Whisky Johnny" "Shenandoah" "Rio Grande" "Blow the Man Down." I believe this was the first collection BTW to use the somewhat awkward phrase "sea chanties." 2. 1905 ??. "Some deep sea chanties." _Saturday Evening Post_ (2 Sept 1905). 3. 1905 ??. (Article on chanties). _Manchester Guardian_ (16 Aug. 1905). 4. 1906 Bernard, D.H. "Sea Songs and Chanties." _The Nautical Magazine_ 75. 5. 1909 Williams, J.H. "The Sailors' 'Chanties'." _The Independent_ (8 July 1909):76-83. 6. 1915 Derby, Thomas. "Sailors' Chanties or Working Songs of the Sea." _Manchester Quarterly_ 34: 285-302. 7. 1917 Brown, R. Curtis. "Sailors' Shanties." _The Nautical Magazine_ 97: 294-9. I believe some of the above articles had their chanties harvested by authors of the better-known collections, so it would be instructive to see them. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Lighter Date: 06 Mar 11 - 09:01 AM Our library has the Williams article. More later. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 19 Apr 11 - 02:25 PM Does anyone here know the exact contents of the 2nd edition of Davis and Tozer's collection? We know the contents of the first edition, and of the third (added 10 more to the 2nd) and the "Revised" (added an alternate piano arrangement for "A Roving"). If no one knows, then I am going to do some text analysis and try to figure it out. My interest is in knowing what versions of the text would have been available to other authors at various times. The writer Lubbock, for example, borrows some chanties (without credit, I believe) from Davis/Tozer for his 1902 book. Those chanties were not in D/T's first edition, and if the 3rd did not come out until 1906, they must have been in the 2nd edition. That D/T took the chanties from Lubbock is unlikely, I think. I hope is that in nailing down the form of the 2nd edition, we can see the direction of influence easier. Especially since D/T tended to rewrite all the texts they collected, thereby obscuring their origins. D/T was hugely influential on other writers of the time. And other writers repeating the same texts seems to have created a false consensus that their lyrics were authentic. I think that Stan Hugill was later "fooled" by this false consensus, and in adopting these lyrics into his own collection, they have received yet another stamp of authenticity. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: GUEST,JimP Date: 19 Apr 11 - 08:55 PM King's Book of Chanties, Oliver Dotson Co. (1918) is mentioned above, but it doesn't look like anyone's transcribed the index, so here it is, from my copy. I should say that this is just a small pamphlet, and although the titles of these chanteys are familiar, many of the verses are quite different from those currently sung (at least around here - grin). I've kept King's spellings. LONG DRAG CHANTIES A Long Time Ago Blow, Boys, Blow Blow the Man Down Bony Was a Warrior Dead Horse, The Hanging Johnnie Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her Reuben Ranzo Roll the Cotton Down Tom's Gone to Ilo Whisky for My Johnnie SHORT DRAG CHANTIES Haul Away, Joe Haul on the Bowline Johnny Boker Paddy Doyle CAPSTAN CHANTIES Homeward Bound Hooda-Day Plains of Mexico, The Rio Grande Sally Brown We're All Bound to Go Wide Missouri, The PUMPING CHANTIES One More Day Storm-Along OLD SEA SONGS A-Roving Farewell, and Adieu to You High Barbaree Rolling Home |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Apr 11 - 09:49 PM Shipcmo sent me a copy of the very impressive tunes index he's been working on. Take a look: Sea Song Tunes Index |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Jan 12 - 05:12 PM Here's an update of Shipcmo's index: Sea Songs Tunes Index (joeweb) |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 21 May 12 - 05:38 AM I'm looking to see what Sampson's (1927 Seven Seas Shanty Book) melody/music is for the chanty "Lowlands (Away)". The book seems rather rare in the States; I've only gotten a glimpse into the contents through the kindness of postings by other Mudcatters. However, I've still not seen the melody. Anyone able to help out? Thank you all. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Ross Campbell Date: 30 Jul 12 - 08:13 AM Q listed the contents of W.B. Whall's "Sea Songs and Shanties" above. eBay has a copy of the 1920 edition (stated as "first edition", but the book first appeared in 1910). http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sea-Songs-and-Shanties-W-B-Whall-1920-First-Edition-/110926697773?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item19d3bf152d Not bad if you got it for the starting price (£15). But the book is still in print, available from the original publishers, now known as Brown, Son & Ferguson (Glasgow) at £9.95. (£12.15 inc UK post, £14.81 overseas). http://www.skipper.co.uk/catalogue/item/sea-songs-and-shanties I have linked to Brown, Son & Ferguson's website in the Merchant Navy Songs Permathread. No other shanty books in their catalogue, but an incredible variety of books on Maritime subjects from the days of sail right up to technical manuals of the modern era. "Sea Songs and Shanties" is in the Story of the Sea section of the catalogue. Ross |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 16 Jan 13 - 03:04 AM Can anyone, who has seen it, comment on the work _Shanties_ by George Marston and Doris Allen (H. Horsnell & H. Roberts, 1921)? It is not available in my area, and I would be pleased to know its contents. It appears to be only 14 pages long, and I am guessing that it is a sort of songbook with tunes and lyrics for performance. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Gibb Sahib Date: 17 Jan 13 - 09:16 AM A review of Marston's _Shanties_, in Music & Letters (april 1922), is simple and blunt. The review asks what the point is to print a dozen of the best known shanties when there were already existing a half-dozen collections full of dozens of shanties. Ah yes, but what little gems does it hold, like the "Swing yo' tail" (current thread) fragment? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: GUEST,Allan Date: 11 Oct 15 - 02:30 PM Words to a song of a ship leaving Liverpool to cross the Atlantic. A curly haired boy stowaway is found on board by the ships mate.In conversation it is learned that they are father and son. |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Harry Rivers Date: 12 Nov 16 - 01:40 AM Refresh |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: sciencegeek Date: 26 Sep 20 - 05:16 AM Salt Sea Ballads - R R Terry Curwen Press Edition 7928, 1931 I. General 1. The Lion man-o-war 2. Don’t forget your old shipmate 3. Homeward Bound 4. Spanish Ladies 5. The Golden Vanitee 6. Hob-a-derry dando 7. Cawsand Bay 8. Doo me ama day 9. From Boston Harbour 10. John Dory 11. Rolling Home 12. The Boson’s Warning 13. The Chesapeake and Shannon 14. Admiral Benbow 15. High Barbaree 16. The Saucy Arethusa 17. Time for us to go 18. When the stormy winds do blow II. Northumbrian 19. Blaw the wind southerly 20. Bobby Shafty 21. I drew my ship into a harbour 22. When the boat comes in 23. O the bonny fisher lad 24. Ma bonny lad 25. Andrew Carr 26. The Antigallican Privateer 27. Here’s the tender comin’ 28. Liberty for the sailors III. Parodies 29. The Cruise of the Calabar 30. The Chinese Bumboat Man |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: sciencegeek Date: 26 Sep 20 - 05:24 AM this is how the breakdown in Salt sea ballads went... but JWB goes into more detail further up this post |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Steve Gardham Date: 22 Feb 21 - 03:31 PM Gibb Did you ever work out what the 10 new items were in the 3rd edition of D&T? |
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index From: Steve Gardham Date: 22 Feb 21 - 04:06 PM 100 OOOh I haven't done that for ages. |
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