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Subject: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Abby Sale Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:06 AM A lovely friend & fine singer is teaching music in India. Her 5th grade will have a 6-week unit on explorers and she requests any sea songs I might know and have digitized. I can tell her that all sea songs are about exploration or at least traveling but I'm stuck on trad material on exploration per se. I can only think of: Lady Franklin's Lament Bounty Was a Packet Ship There must be many, though. Can you think of any more (on CD)? Abby (cc. RecMusicFolk) |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:18 AM Christofo Columbo @displaysong.cfm?SongID=1186 But be careful - there is an xrated version in the DT. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:24 AM Silly Columbus Song: @displaysong.cfm?SongID=4717 |
Subject: ADD: Octavius (Linda Kelly) From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:36 AM Octavius - The first ship to sail the Nothwest Passage (with a ghost crew) true story. Hissyfit wrote and recorded it. Octavius (Linda Kelly) Soft eerie light on the water Silent, she moves with the ocean beneath her Caverns of ice, rise above her Slowly, the soft cloak of winter descends. I am no match for you. Moonlight has captured her beauty, Pale silhouette in the blackness beyond her Swanlike, in elegant motion, One fleeting moment, and then she is gone I am no match for you. Forced by the passage of time and degree Locked in an ocean of death, ice and sea Statues of frozen flesh, blood withered bone Death came to those who were so far from home. Soft eerie light on the water Square sailed, a breathless wind often becalmed her, Floating her haunted path eastwards Too late, her journey would not take her home. I am no match for you Caught in the grip of the ice-storm, Life like some flickering candle that's over, Slowly our breath fading from us Caught with the dying words trapped n our minds. I was no match for you Steer us, beyond that which we've come to fear Keep us in memory of those we hold dear. Onward, Octavius drifts into night Dwarfed by cathedrals of glistening ice. Soft eerie light on the ocean Gleaming the Arctic stars shine high above us Onward our dead souls are drifting Caught in a journey of time and degree. I was no match for you. Soft eerie light on the water Thirteen long years that it took to discover Crew frozen fast in an ice storm Caught in a journey, of time and degree. A true story of the ship Octavius, which in 1775 was discovered by the packet 'Herald' drifting with its entire crew frozen dead. The captain's log showed that it had been travelling for thirteen years and had covered thousands of miles, sailing as it did, through the North West Passage. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:50 AM The Old Figurehead Carver Marco Polo is the ship. The song has a verse about Marco polo. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Gibb Sahib Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:50 AM Then of course there is Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage" -- Is her need "traditional," in which case how are you defining that for this purpose? i.e. what exactly are the restrictions? |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:58 AM There were some threads on Shackleton a while back. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:00 AM Calypso - modern but about Cousteau a modern explorer. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Abby Sale Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:32 AM Gibb Sahib, Well, not Northwest Passage, I think. Anyway, that brilliant song would be hard to present to 5th graders, I also think. Likewise bawdy material - I asked her about that but no response yet. I doubt the school would go along. A shame. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: GUEST,Jack Campin (in Transylvania) Date: 28 Jul 09 - 11:04 AM There are two tunes I can think of relating to Captain Cook: "The Lament for Captain Cook", a fiddle tune by Miss Oswald of Auchincrieve (not to be confused with her appalling mother) given words by Burns which have no maritime connection at all, and "Omai", a spectactular reel published by (and probably written by) William Campbell - Omai was the Tahitian who came back to England with Cook. You can find the lament in Kinsley's edition of Burns: Campbell's books are very rare but I have an ABC transcription of the tune at home. There is also a Polynesian verse/song/dance drama about Cook's vsit to one of the Pacific atolls (Mangareva?), dating from the time of the event, which survived in oral tradition long enough to be written down in the early 19th century. The missionary collector didn't write down the music. The text (and stage directions) are in Anthony Alpers' "The World of the Polynesians", I think. There may well be surviving Polynesian songs about their own colonization of the Pacific. The big sea-exploration poem is Camoes' "Os Lusiadas" - was any of it ever sung? |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 12:01 PM Try here at Lester Levy: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/2085/browse?value=Explorers&type=subject |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:16 PM The story of the Octavius is legend, not fact. A tall tale, origin unknown. No verification that the ship ever existed. See Wikipedia, etc. The first North American expedition to find a northwest passage sailed March 4, 1753 from Philadelphia, the schooner Argo under Capt. Charles Swain. It got as far as Cape Farewell and Hudson Strait, but was stopped by ice. In 1854, it tried again, but after three men were killed by natives on the Labrador coast, it abandoned the quest. Raold Amundson was the first to succeed, 1903-1906. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Jul 09 - 03:09 PM I wonder if anyone has composed a ballad about the 18th century French explorer Marion Dufresne who was one of the first Europeans to explore New Zealand only to get eaten. He should of heeded the warning from the natives: "Don't fish in the cove where we bury our ancestors!" Cheerily, Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: SINSULL Date: 28 Jul 09 - 03:22 PM Ah, Q. Why did you have to spoil it? |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Ross Campbell Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:18 PM There's surely enough amazing stories connected with the search for the North-West Passage without resorting to fanciful inventions. I have an idea there is a song about the Matthew Flinders expedition - possibly titled "Terra Australis" - the expedition mapped much of the coastline of Australia. Haven't found that yet. I did find "Australian Rap" by Des Bishop, which had some interesting things to say. Ross |
Subject: Lyr Add: Australian Rap (Des Bishop) From: Ross Campbell Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:25 PM Throw your hands like this dont be afraid Australian Rap Des Bishop I know your in the princess theatre but you might as well let it go here we go I might mess it up but who cares Well before the Brtis before the convicts William Janz came from Holland in 1606 Saying yeah es torrez found the ways that were skinny between Queensland and Papua New Guinea Give ME Give Me land Europeans scheming and dreaming Tasman discovered land named after Van Diemen and also New Zealand in 1642 with the 17th century not even half way through And 1770 things were changed forever Captain Cook had a look on board the Endeavor better late than never Phillip thought that Sydney was great 1788 NSW would be the state 26 of january was the actual date 751 convicts among the freight the colony grew slowly there among the rocks Black fellas died in numbers exposed to small pox William Bligh from Rebellion then Macquarie the people said he favored the fallen over the free Flinders wrote of a trip to Terra Australis So Australia is what they'd call all this \ Convicts got free for jobs because they chose not to rob Pre settlers made Adelaide because they were snobs Victoria the place to be in 54 there was problems with g-o-l-d As the miners were looking for licences that were cheaper Somebody got murdered in a hotel called Eureka now the future looked bleaker The hotel went alight the matters lead to stockade the Southern Cross to flight In the 1870s bushrangers were deadly the authorities and Ned Kelly were not really friendly but outlaws in Australia get remembered as groovy Who the hell is Redmond Barry Ned Kelly got a movie Federation White Australia policies only Europeans no more chinese please Melbourne and Sydney thought the capital should be there So they put the A.C.T in the middle of nowhere Over there the 20 th century tragedy came to ozzies in Gallipoli as those Anzacs Came under attack and 8000 of those brave diggers never came back Come on dont be afraid to like give a little bit back yeah its your history Edmund Barton was your first prime minister but you know that cause it was in a tv commercial last verse here we go You got the depression from America and that was crap You sent them Farlap but they never sent him back Then the bombing of Darwin from the Japanese Fear of Commies under Robert Menzies Populate or perish, procreate to survive And Melbourne over 100, 000 Greeks arrive Border ??? are fonder, white Australia's a goner Harold Holt drowned, they built a swimming pool in his honour The Vietnam and Conscription, Labor under Whitlam Land rights for blacks back in the political system For tourism promotion you sent the Yanks Paul Hogan They come in droves expecting a land to be loaded with bogans To many political backers, the Liberals speak about battlers The media gets controlled by Rupert Murdock and Packer ??An increase?? in immigration, Hanson creates the one nation Howard ignores years of the stolen generation Kevin Mandarin Rudd has to stop the recession The economies in a mess and going down the shi shao gen But he said the thing that people find the hardest to say when he said sorry on his very first day Yeah ! oh This was posted by "Jay" in response to a request on a Yahoo site. Ross |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Artful Codger Date: 29 Jul 09 - 04:21 AM Would Francis Drake or Captain Kidd qualify? (Though the songs about Captain Kidd are lies from start to finish.) |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: GUEST,julia Date: 29 Jul 09 - 11:20 PM How about St Brendan's Fair isle by Jimmy (O') Driftwood? |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Ken Schatz Date: 29 Jul 09 - 11:57 PM FRANKIE'S TRADE (Kipling/Bellamy), in Digitrad, about Francis Drake. |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: mg Date: 30 Jul 09 - 12:04 AM I think there are some about Captain Robert Grey..maybe by Brownsmead Flats. mg |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: GUEST,Dan Schatz (PDA) Date: 30 Jul 09 - 12:46 AM "The Old Peacock," on The Boarding Party's album Fair Winds and a Following Sea, dates to the US Exploring Expedition of the 1840s. It's exactly on topic. Dan |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: burntstump Date: 30 Jul 09 - 03:22 AM How about Lord Franklin "Homeward bound one night on the deep" |
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Sea songs about Explorers From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Jul 09 - 08:17 AM "Lady Franklin's Lament" was mentioned in the first post. Another Columbus "exploration" song was composed by Malvina Reynold's daughter a few years back: By Nancy Schimmel (Malvina Reynolds' daughter) As sung by Faith Petric, 1995 Columbus In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue It was a courageous thing to do But someone was already there! Columbus thought that the world was round So he looked for the East while westward bound But he didn't find what he thought he'd found For someone was already there! The Inuit and Cherokee The Aztec and Menominee The Onondaga and the Cree Columbus sailed across the sea But someone was already there! Now it isn't like it was empty space The Caribs met him face to face Could anyone discover a place When someone was already there! (CHO) So tell me who discovered what He thought he was in a different spot Columbus was lost but the Caribs were not They were already there! (CHO) Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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