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: 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: 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: 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: Charley Noble Date: 27 Feb 10 - 05:00 PM Admirable collection! Charley Noble |
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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: Dead Horse Date: 14 Jun 07 - 04:49 PM :-) |
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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: Charley Noble Date: 13 Jun 07 - 09:15 AM Check! |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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 |
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