'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,Badjelly
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 06:56 PM

Aw thanks. Also recorded 2010 by Portsmouth Shanty Men.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Crane Driver
Date: 19 Feb 12 - 05:21 AM

The Shanty UK website now has a 'songwriters' section with new sea songs and shanties available as pdf files to download (by permission of the authors) and in some cases midi files. Not many writers yet, but submissions welcomed if your main concern is to get your songs known and sung.

Andrew

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: stallion
Date: 19 Feb 12 - 05:13 AM

Just read through this thread and can't believe that Linda Kelly's Sweet Minerva and Northern Tide are not mentioned, truth is that once you hear Hissyfit doing Sweet Minerva there is little else one can do with it, it is just wonderful, I have heard many people sing Northern Tide in many different styles and as far as I have heard no-one has murdered it.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,John Foxen
Date: 18 Feb 12 - 09:02 AM

To add to the list of women composers:
Sisters Unlimited have their wonderful Childbirth Shanty (No Bed of Roses) but it may be a little strong for the menfolk.
And Margaret Foxen co-wrote a song about one of Britain's greatest maritime heroes, John Darwin, who set off one day in his canoe from Seaton In Carew and absent-mindedly sailed all the way to Central America

Paddle Off To Panama

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: EBarnacle
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 02:42 PM

Shortly after Pride of Baltimore I went down, I wrote "The Loss of the Pride Of Baltimore" as a pumping chantey.

Here's the first verse and chorus:

o-oh have you heard the news, me Johnny,
Pride's gone down.
She went on down in a dead white squall,
Pride's gone down.

O-oh Prid's gone down, Me Johnny,
Pride's gone down;
Sh'll not come home to Baltimore,
Pride's gone down.

The first time I sang this in public was a a pub sing in Mystic, shortly after the event. I had trouble getting through the song because it choked me up and, apparently had the same effect on many of the others in the room. I don't drag it out often as it is too powerful.

Kendall, the melody of Ashes on the Sea sounds an awful lot like the melody of "Lorena." Is it based on that or just coincidence?

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: sciencegeek
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 08:41 PM

mg,

This from wiki:
Northwestern named the boat after President and Chairman of the Board, Edmund Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's grandfather had been a lake captain and his father owned the Milwaukee Drydock Company that built and repaired ships.[19] More than 15,000 people attended the Fitzgerald's christening and launch ceremony on June 7, 1958. The event was plagued by misfortune. When Elizabeth Fitzgerald, wife of Edmund Fitzgerald, tried to christen the boat by smashing a champagne bottle over the bow, it took her three attempts to break it. A delay of 36 minutes followed while the shipyard crew struggled to release the keel blocks. Upon sideways launch, the boat crashed violently into a pier.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 05:34 PM

Re Edmond Fitzgerald..I keep coming upon the name in my genealogy "research" of Irish families in NE Iowa...lots of Fitzgeralds from Dingle area..I know the ship was named after the father of the banker? Insurance agent? Some financial man..does anyone know the history of this Fitzgerald and from whence he came? mg

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 05:00 PM

fastnet old fastnet, C FoxSmith, tuneRMileshttps://sites.google.com/site/thefastnetmaritimeandfolkfest/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmLNHqYuKo

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Greg B
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 04:56 PM

My old pal and band-mate Skip Henderson has written some dandy ditties as well as having put the Sailor's and Fisher's Hornpipes together in such a fashion as to be given the final music credit on "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" (think of the bar-fight scene).

I want also to give a nod to Stan Rogers' "White Squall." One of those songs that really evokes the visual imagination as the story unfolds.

Subject: Lyr Add: DRINK TO THE MEN WHO'VE GONE ASHORE
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 08:04 AM

Oh my, I've missed this thread! Thanks for reviving it, Ron. There are a lot of songs that have surfaced in the last year and a half. Here's one of my favorite new ones, inspired by a poem by marine engineer and writer William McFee who provided the chorus (copy and paste into WORD/TIMES/12 to line up chords):

By William McFee, 1909
From Songs of the Sea and Sailors' Chanteys, edited by Robert Frothingham, published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Cambridge, US, © 1924, p. 208; first published in The New York Evening Post.
Verses by Charles Ipcar, © 2011
Tune: Charles Ipcar, © 2011
Key: Em (9/Gm)

DRINK TO THE MEN WHO'VE GONE ASHORE

Dm--C--Dm-------C---F-----Dm--C---- Dm
Now the Skipper and Chief have gone ashore
-----------------F----C-Dm
They're off to Sail-or-town,
--------Gm--------------------Dm---F-Dm
So I'll tell you a tale of Old Sing-a-pore,
-------------C---Dm-C-----Dm
While we pass the bottle round.
---Gm----------------------Dm-F-Dm
I'll tell you a tale of Old Sing-a-pore,
----Gm-------------Dm
Of famous Malay Street,
------Gm---------------Dm-F--Dm
With its samshu dives by the score,
-----------C---Dm-C------Dm
And the rick-sha girls so sweet.

Chorus:

Dm-------C------F----Dm--- C-----Dm
So drink to the men who've gone ashore,
--------------------F-------C----Dm
With a one-two-three – rum-tum!
Gm--------------------------Dm--F------Dm
Half a dozen men on the mess room floor,
C-----------------------------F----C-Dm
Drink to the men who've gone a-shore,
Gm-------------------------Dm-----F--Dm
Six good men with their throats all sore –
----C--Dm-C---------Dm
Yo ho for a bottle o' rum!

As I was cruising down the Street,
After a drop or twa,
I spied a girl just like a pearl,
Alone in a Jin-rick-sha.
So pretty and neat with long black hair,
Dressed in silks so fine,
She smiled at me and waved her hand,
And her jade green eyes did shine. (CHO)

So I climbed aboard and off we rolled,
Through the shadows of the night;
Till we fetched up to her compound gate,
Gleaming in the pale moonlight.
She pulled the cord and a gong did sound,
The dragon gate swung wide;
She took my hand and led me on
To her chamber deep inside. (CHO)

She brought me a glass of samshu wine,
And smiled at me again;
She knelt beside me on the mat
And my head began to spin;
Now when I awoke, late next morn,
My head was still aflame;
I was lying naked on the quay,
Bruised and in great pain. (CHO)

So heed my warning, one and all,
If you're cruising Singapore,
Don't cha spend your nights with the rick-sha girls,
They'll rock and roll you sure;
Don't cha spend your nights with the rick-sha girls,
Don't cruise Old Singapore,
But get married, lads, and settle down,
And go to sea no more,
And go to sea no more!

"Samshu," according to Stan Hugill, is a Chinese bean-wine, very fiery and potent.

And here's a link to a MP3 sample: http://www.charlieipcar.com/lyrics/drink_men.htm

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 07:39 AM

YouTube - Birkenhead drill

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Trunklesqueezer
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 12:17 AM

If I'm not mistaken, 'The Birkenhead Drill' was written by Ken Stephens from somewhere near Southampton.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 10:31 PM

Nancy and Kendall-

I'm thinking about pulling together all the photographs my brother and I made of the Wiscasset schooners in the early 1960's for a Facebook album. It really was a shame that the Town of Wiscasset never spent a cent trying to preserve them or construct a replica.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 04:05 PM

I wrote a chorus to the poem ny John Masefield about Long John Siver.

access it here:-

http://www.bigalwhittle.co.uk/id24.html

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 03:39 PM

http://www.myspace.com/timleaning


Self serving link to a song called three weeks.
its about the darker side of the fishing trade.

It comes from the way the trawlers used to be away at sea for three weeks then home for three days.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: janemick
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 03:31 PM

chicken on a raft, grey funnel line and the oggy man by Cyril T
awnwy

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: kendall
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 07:33 AM

I remember driving by those hulks and wondering about them.
This is an excellent song and I'd like to see it become very well known.

Subject: Lyr Add: WISCASSET SCHOONERS
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 09:58 PM

OK, here goes. The schooners of the song, "Hesper" and "Luther Little," were beached in Wiscasset, Maine, in 1932, and remained there, an unlikely tourist attraction, until the debris from the disintigrating hulks became a hazard to navigation. They were finally demolished in 1998. I remember sneaking aboard them in the early 1960s with Lois and some other friends -- strictly forbidden, but fascinating and fun. Lois wrote the song in 1985. Gordon sings a couple of words slightly differently on the "Schooners" CD, but this is the way the lyrics are printed in the accompanying booklet:


WISCASSET SCHOONERS
(Lois Lyman)

Do you remember riding home before a dying summer breeze,
Your topsails gleaming golden, setting sun among the trees,
And the osprey wheeling slowly through the shadows by the shore,
Where the towering cliffs of granite plunge ten fathoms deep or more,
And the eddies swirl and flow down below.

You were solid-built of Douglas fir and oak and yellow pine,
Two hundred feet, sailed by a crew that numbered only nine,
Hauling lumber through your timberports, and dyewood from the south
Running home from Norfolk bringing coal to heat the north
And whatever they could stow down below.

But the winter is upon you now, and time is passing slow
And the tides ebb and flow down below.

You served them well for fifteen years, your canvas all unfurled
When New England sailing ships were found in ports around the world,
But spars gave way to smokestacks, clouds of white to black and grey,
There was nothing left for you to do but waste your time away,
And the rot was spreading slow down below.

And the winter...

From Wiscasset to the China Lakes the Narrow Gauge did run,
To push it northward to Quebec was old Frank Winter's plan--
And schooners were to bring his cargoes in to meet the train,
When he found you idle on the dock, he brought you down to Maine
Where the tides ebb and flow down below.

You know he tried the best he could, but he just couldn't make it pay
So he ran you both aground, and turned around and walked away;
You've been waiting here for fifty years, but no one set you free,
Now you're broken down and dying, lying open to the sea,
And the tides ebb and flow down below.

And the winter...

The people come to stare at you with wonder in their eyes
For times have changed since men knew how to work a ship your size.
The seas you sailed are running black; in time we'll know our loss--
It's too late now for you, and is it too late now for us?
Can you teach us what you know before you go?

For the winter is upon you now, and time is passing slow
And the tides ebb and flow down below. (twice)

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: kendall
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 08:14 PM

Thanks Nancy, please do post those lyrics. Excellent song.

I wonder if "The Siren's Song" might qualify?

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 08:11 PM

Thanks, Terry, for your contribution.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 07:35 PM

100

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 07:19 PM

Nancy-

That's a nice one. Will you post the lyrics?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:52 PM

Still looking for sea-oriented songs by women writers? I nominate "Wiscasset Schooners" by my good friend Lois Lyman. It's been recorded by Gordon Bok (with Lois), David Coffin, Geoff Kaufman, and maybe a couple of others.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 04:41 PM

John-

A very similar version of "The Greenwich Pensioner" was also published in John Ashton's Real Sailor-Songs, © 1891, pp. 147-148. What do you use for a tune? There's no clue in Ashton.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREENWICH PENSIONER
From: GUEST,John from "Elsie`s Band"
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 02:03 PM

This is certainly not new. It was published in London in by Robert Sayer in March 1791. I have put it to music and it is now part of our repertoire.

THE GREENWICH PENSIONER.

'Twas in the good ship Rover
I sail'd the world around.
And for three years and over,
I ne'er touch'd British ground;
At length in England landed,
I left the roaring main,
Found all relations stranded,
And went to sea again.

That time, bound straight to Portugal,
Right fore and aft we bore;
But, when we'd made Cape Ortugal,
A gale blew off the shore:
She lay, so did it shock her,
A log upon the main,
Till, sav'd from Davy's locker,
We stood to sea again.

Next in a frigate sailing,
Upon a squally night,
Thunder and lightning hailing
The horrors of the fight;
My precious limb was lopped off,
I, when they'd eas'd my pain,
Thank'd God I was not popped off,
And went to sea again.

Yet still am I enabled
To bring up in life's rear,
Although I am disabled
And lie in Greenwich tier;*
The king, God bless his royalty,
Who saved me from the main,
I'll praise with love and loyalty,
But ne'er to sea again.

*(Greenwich Tier refers to the Sailors Hospital there.)

Subject: Lyr Add: SEA CHANTY (Abe Burrows)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 12:51 PM

Here's a humorous take on the traditional sea shanty by Abe Burrows that I haven't run across before:

By Abe Burrows (1910-1984), © 1955 Abram S. Burrows, William Morris Agency
From THE SEA, SHIPS AND SAILORS, edited by William Cole,
The Viking Press, New York, © 1967, pp. 122-123

SEA CHANTY

Our ship is leaving Portsmouth town,
Her name's the good ship Nancy Brown.

Yo ho,
Jib the boom,
Poop the deck,
Rattle the hatch,
Main the sail,
Pepper the mints,
Anchors aweigh in the morn.

Oh, we'll be sailing with the tide,
We've said farewell to our girls and brides,

Yo ho,
Rig the ratch,
Hoist the hitch,
Bury the hatchet,,
Poop the deck,
Beat the breeze,
That she blows in the morn.

And soon we'll ne out on the ocean foam,
So let's heave ho with a will,
And come, jolly tars, let's sing while we can,
For soon we'll be deathly ill!

For there's nothing life the life of a sailor,
Sailing on the briny foam,
With a good stout ship beneath your feet,
And a good stout wife at home.

Oh, there's nothing, nothing, nothing like a sailor's life,
The sailor's life is grand,
Oh, I'd never give up the sea unless
You offered me a job on land.

So it's three jolly cheers for the sea,
And a fond farewell to dry land,
So up with the anchor and we won't set it down
Till we reach old Coney Island!

Singing yo ho,
Hit the deck,
Follow the fleet,
Anchor's aweigh,
Scuttle the butt,
Roll the dice,
Deal the cards,
Pepper the mints,
We're sailing away on the sea.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 08:01 AM

Charlie Frederick-

Would you please post these songs on separate threads as "Lyric Adds."

They sound interesting.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,Charlie Frederick
Date: 19 Jul 10 - 07:10 AM

I wrote the first song about the Edmund Fitzgerald. "Twenty-Nine More Men" was recorded and released after Gordon's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". I also wrote the song "Rough and Ready Son-of-a Sailor"...a song about a friend of mine who was a Captain who sailed the Great Lakes and beyond. These songs were written and recorded in the late 70's while I was on staff at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 03:02 PM

here is most of a song, I wrote 20 years ago, jack The Lad[copywrite 1987] the rest is available at my website, hope you enjoy.
of course amateurs and others are very welcome to sing it,if anyone does record it, it has to be logged with prs.thanks.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uf8L6ZB3I

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 02:16 PM

Anybody know of a song that has a line about "pollywogs get on your knees and pay your dues to mighty king neptune" ? Sorry, just heard a few seconds on the radio and want to track this sucker down.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: GUEST,Roger Quigley
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 10:52 AM

Tyhere is a nautical theme song competition associated with 2010 Wessex Folk Fest. Cash Prizes and adulation on offer. Check www.wessexfolkfestival.co.uk

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 02:29 AM

Richard Grainger's Whitby Whaler has been mentioned. My favorite of his is Scarborough Fisherman. It's a beautiful melding of music and lyrics. George Vancouver, and The Endeavor Shanty are also fine songs of his, just to mention a few.

Cindy Kallet composes many maritime oriented songs, and she a has a captivating voice. Her debut album, Working On Wings To Fly, is classic. These aren't chanteys, but modern songs of coastal communities. Her opening song on that cd, Nantucket Sound, had for me the same effect as when I first heard Grainger's Scarborough Fisherman: I was hooked, and I will never forget the first time I heard them.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Banjiman
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:16 PM

Try this one:


The Visiter (who is that banjo player?)

and this one:

Sleep Well

Both written by Wendy Arrowsmith

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: doc.tom
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 12:32 PM

Charley,
We never found out. Alan died of leukemia in 1967 (I think it was). But we were given the extra 'Deep blue ocean' verse on the Isle of Wight in 1975/6 by another guy who just sang us the verse and then disappeared before we could nail him (Ken Shephens was there as the time). You couldn't make it up, could you!
TomB

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 08:10 AM

Tom-

"Mervyn didn't write the Farewell Shanty. The words were found by Alan Molyneux in a book in Plymouth Library - he set it to music."

Thanks for that update. That's the first time I've heard of anyone other than Mervyn associated with the origin of this song. Of course I'm now wondering what the title of the book was in the Plymouth Library. Anyone have a clue?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: doc.tom
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:23 AM

"The Farewell Shanty; words by Mervyn Vincent (performed by The Boarding Party and Shanty Jack)"

Mervyn didn't write the Farewell Shanty. The words were found by Alan Molyneux in a book in Plymouth Library - he set it to music. He gave it to Mervyn in 1964/5. Mervyn introduced it into the local extant singing tradition in North Cornwall (he was particularly enthused by the possibilities for bass parts). From thence it went into the folk revival - largely via Collins & Mageean.

TomB

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:22 AM

Is there a distinction to be made between modern songs of modern seafaring, as with the likes of Tawney and Stan Rogers, and those that are written as of another time, like Sailor's Prayer?

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: shipcmo
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 06:52 AM

Refresh,
Still here, but had 3 (three) computers crash, all at once!

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Snuffy
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 09:35 AM

'F223' by Roy Jones, who sang it at Alcester Folk Club last night. Recorded by Karen & Colin Thompson on Time and Tide, 2001.

Subject: Lyr Add: VENEZUELA TO TRINIDAD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 10:42 AM

One of the last songs that the late Barry Finn introduced to the sea music community was this modern day merchant mariner song:

By Roger Hussey, crew on the Norwegian MST (Motor Ship Tanker) Borjholt
From the singing of Barry Finn 9/17/07

VENEZUELA TO TRINIDAD

On the Venezuela to Trinidad run (Trinidad run)
Our ship goes to hell, we're all havin' way too much fun (way too much fun)

Chorus:

Venezuela to Trinidad,
Trinidad to Venezuela!

Venezuela is flamenco, an' hot guitar strums (hot guitar strums)
Trinidad is calypso, an' loud steel drums (loud steel drums) (CHO)

Carry crude oil to Trinidad refineries (refineries)
To Venezuela for more crude, we run back empty (run back empty) (CHO)

For most tankers it's long at sea, short time in port (short time in port)
But we've tied up long, our sea time is short (sea time is short) (CHO)

When we tie up, the bar girls an' taxi cabs come (taxi cabs come)
Here comes a weekend, of riot an' rum (riot an' rum) (CHO)

Lars is locked in his cabin, the rich owner's son; (rich owner's son)
He's a drunken exile, at thirty-one (at thirty-one) (CHO)

If we're rowdy ashore, we end up in jail (end up in jail)
Rum an' pesos from Lars, an' we're soon out on bail (soon out on bail) (CHO)

Miss our sailing, hung over, roll over an' then (roll over an' then)
Wait a week, stay drunk, an' our ship's back again (our ship's back again) (CHO)

Beg the purser, "Please, just one more advance!" (one more advance)
What with girls an' booze, your wallet does not stand a chance (not stand a chance) (CHO)

After eight trips the chief''s at the end of his wits (end of his wits)
After ten trips they send us, back home to refit (home to refit) (CHO)

So it's pack up an' back to the hirin' hall (the hirin' hall)
An' it's farewell to flamenco, an' steel drums all (an' steel drums all) (CHO)

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Feb 10 - 07:13 AM

"The Good Ship "Calabar" "----origin unknown !

excerpt ;
             "Put on more speed !!" the Captain cried,
                For we are sorely pressed !";
                The engineer on the riverbank said
                "The old horse is doing its best !"

etc.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: KathyW
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 10:28 PM

I have a few more for the list.

I can think of least one by William Pint: "The Packet Rat" (C. Fox Smith poem set to music by William Pint)

Add to the listings for Tom & Chris Kastle, "The Black Dog of Lake Erie," "The Eastland," and "Amor Es El Rio" (Our Love is the River). There are others . . .

You don't have my absolute favorite Bob Zentz song listed: "Ocean Station Bravo." And "Eight Bells" is also quite wonderful. But of course he's written many.

For Jerry Bryant, add "Jimmy's Mobile Phone," "Crossing the Line," "The Dreadnought Mutiny," and "Thomas Bird."

By members of Bounding Main:
*"To Ireland We'll Go" by Maggie Hannington
*"Pass the Mug" by Gina Dalby and Christine Dalby
*"Toss and Roll" by David Yondorf

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 05:27 PM

http://www.myspace.com/timleaning
Just uploaded my song Three weeks on the player.
Its sort of a sea song.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Cats
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 04:27 PM

Cornish Lads was written by Roger Bryant

Subject: Lyr Add: WAKE UP SUSIANA
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:39 PM

George-

Well, here's a newer shanty that I found in the lining of an old sea chest:

Parody written by Charlie Ipcar © 2001
Adapted from Felice & Boudleaux Bryant © Wake Up Little Suzie
Tune: a slow shanty shout roughly based on the original tune

WAKE UP SUSIANA

Chorus:

Wake up, Susiana, wake up!
Wake up, Susiana, wake up!

We've both been sound asleep – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana, and weep – Umph!
Blue Peter's flying, there's no denying,
We're in trouble deep!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
We gotta ship out! (CHO)

Now we said we'd be aboard by ten – Umph!
Susiana, we've goofed again – Umph!
The bosun's a-calling, the capstan's a-pawling,
And we're three sheets to the wind!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
We gotta ship out! (CHO)

Now the rum it wasn't so hot – Umph!
But we drank up all of our tot – Umph!
You're still asleep, our duff is deep,
Our reputation is shot!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
We gotta ship out! (CHO)

Now the mudhook's up and down – Umph!
But we're still stuck in town – Umph!
What we gonna tell the Old Man
When he looks at us with a frown?
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
We gotta ship out! (CHO)

We've both been sound asleep – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana, and weep – Umph!
Blue Peter's flying, there's no denying,
It's time for the pierhead leap!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
Wake up, Susiana! – Umph!
We gotta ship out!
We gotta ship out!

You can hear a MP3 sample of how this is sung: Click here for MP3!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: shipcmo
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:42 AM

Still looking for input.
TNX

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DARK AND THE ROLLING SEA
From: mousethief
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 06:17 PM

Not a shanty, but nautical throughout. Allegedly about an unhappy love affair -- a very elaborate form of "may you choke on it"!

THE DARK AND THE ROLLING SEA
Al Stewart

Oh you slipped away from the harbour side
In the morning bright and clear
And your sails were filled with the rising wind
And you laughed for all to hear
But you never glanced at the ragged dance
Of your lovers on the quay
Don't call on them when the winds rise high
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh you set your course for the furthest shores
And you never once looked back
And the flag you flew was a pirate cross
On a field of velvet black
And those landsmen who you but lately knew
Were left stranded on the lea
Don't call on them when the storm clouds rise
On the dark and the rolling sea

Oh I have no need of a chart or creed
You told your waiting crew
For the winds of chance, they will bear us straight
And you spoke as though you knew
So you paid no mind to the warning signs
As you gave your words so free
Don't change your tack when the timbers crack
On the dark and the rolling sea

Now the thunder rails in the great mainsails
And the stars desert the skies
And the rigging strains as the hands of rain
Reach down to wash your eyes
And your oarsmen stands with his knife in hand
And his eyes spell mutiny
Don't call my name when your ship goes down
On the dark and the rolling sea


O..O
=o=

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DOWNEASTER "ALEXA" (Billy Joel)
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 05:49 PM

From an unlikely source, Billy Joel, comes this song named, I believe, for his daughter. Maybe not a shanty, but with a good nautical sentiment.


THE DOWNEASTER "ALEXA"

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
And left this morning from the bell in Gardner's Bay
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
And I go where the ocean is deep
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can't fall asleep

I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
But I've got people back on land who count on me

So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
More and more miles from shore every year
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
And there's no luck in swordfishing here

I was a bayman like my father was before
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: Sugwash
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 05:25 PM

Also, and I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner, 'Port of Call' by Kieran Halpin.

Subject: RE: 'New' Sea Songs & Shanties & Nautical Songs
From: shipcmo
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 03:46 PM

Thanks for all the contributions. He're's the current list. Italicised titles did not come across.

Tuneful Tales with Rousing Choruses
                     and
       Ballads to a Lost Time

Armour, Matt   Shores O' the Forth
Baxter, Ron   Tramps (Chantey for Coaling), White Feathers, Common British Tars, Bite of Benin,
                      Farewell to the Clan Line
Bell, Vic   Snap the Line Tight
Bellamy, Peter   Around Me Brave Boys, Roll Down
Bok, Gordon   Hills of Isle au Haut, Cape Anne, Fundy Bay The Ways of Man, Frankie on the Sheepscot,
                         Three Boot Philbrick's Lament, Seal Djirl and Saben, The Wood Fitter
Bryant, Jerry   Harbo & Samuelson
Bustin, Dillon   Way Down in Shawneetown, All Aboard the Spray
Campbell, Jon   Tangueray Martini-o, Catch and Release (new age whaling song), Keep on Fishing
Chobotuk, Linda   Canning Salmon
Cody & Swain   The Old Figurehead Carver
Colclough, Phil   Liverpool John
Collins, Peter   
Conolly, John   Fiddler's Green, Trawler Town Requiem, The Grimsby Lads (with Bill Meek)
Cove, Edward C. Where's Your Money Gone
Denver, John   Calypso (song about diver Jack Custard's converted French minesweeper)
Dickie, Neil   The Clumsy Lover
Dunlap, Gina   River Lea (new arrangement)
Durant, Giles   The Wheelhouse Door
Dyer, Bob   The Jim Johnson
Dylan, Bob   When the Ship Comes in
Eaton, Nigel   Last Chance
Fischer, Archie   Final Trawl
Forbes, Jack   Rolling down the River
Garvey, Mary   The Cannery Shed
Goodbrand, D.S. The Kola Run
Goodenough, Tony   Pump Shanty
Grainger, Richard   Whitby Whaler
Hansell, Bert   Ho Ro Ho
Joel, Billy   Downeaster Alexa
KT? Old Salt
Kalma, Nanne   Hand Over Hand
Kaplan, Larry   Alice Wentworth (O'Zeb)
Kastle, Tom and Chris   Cold Winds, Burnham Harbor (lyrics for an old tune), Song for the Whales,
                                     Shine Out Your Light
Kelly, Linda   Lament, Luckiest Sailor
Kimber   Don't Take The Heroes
Knight, Peter   Let her Go Down
Lewis, Tom   The Last Shanty, Legend (Marching Inland), Dutchman's Trousers, Sailor's Prayer,
                     Inside Every Sailor
Lightfoot, Gordon   The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Christian Island
Littlefield, Dave
Lloyd, A. L.   Seamen's Hymn
Lowe, Jez   The Bergin
Lowndes, Bill   Old Fid
Maclaren, Hamish   Yangtse River Shanty
Mallett, Dave   Arrowsic is a really good one about a Maine fisherman.
McColl, Ewan   Shoals of Herring, The Shellback Song
McKay, Andrew   Made Of Wood, Lifeboat Horses, Dead Reckoning
Meek, Bill   Time Ashore is Over
Meneely, Janie   Twiddles
Miles, Dick   Jack the Lad, Home to the Haven, Around the Harbour Town
Morse, Kendall   The Last Whalehunt, Ashes on the Sea
Murdock, Lee
O'Connor, Mike   Carrying Nelson Home
O'Hegarty, Charlie   Classic Yankee Clipper
Patterson, Micca   I'm a shanty man that's never been to sea (Tune Mary Ellen Carter, Stan Rogers)
Payne, Jim   Wave Over Wave
Pint, William " ? "
Posen, Sheldon   No More Fish, No Fishermen (Music by John Goss)
Reader, Ann    Sailor's wife, Lost at Sea, Whatever the Tallships Bring, Singing in the Public House tonight,
                        Tomorrow we'll be on our way, Hold Fast, Christmas Shanty
Robertson, Harry   With the Antarctic Fleet, Wee Pot Stove, Ballina, Whalers, Heave Away, Deep Sea Tug
Rogers, Stan   Barrett's Privateers, The Jeannie C, Lockeeper, Make and break Harbor, White Squall,
                      The Mary Ellen Carter
Russel, Kelly " ? "
Seeger, Peggy   The Lifeboat Mona
Shearman, Rod   Is the Big Fella Gone?
Skilling, Doug and Martin, Davit BLUENOSE
Smith, Buzz (words), Neil Downey (tune)   CW-9-cn "PEEWIT"

Spencer, Rick
Steven, Ken    Survivor Leave
Stewart, Andy M.   Fisherman's Song
Stewart, Jim   Marco Polo
Sugden, Andy   Girls of Every Colour
Sunde, Rudy   Auckland to the Bluff
Tawney, Cyril   Diesel and Shale, Chicken on a Raft, Grey Funnel Line, Haul Away the Dhhajsa,
                      On a British Submarine, Sally Free and Easy, Six Feet of Mud
Trickett, Ed   Sea Fever
Triggs, Stanley G.   The Wreck of the C.P. Yorke, The Wreck of the Green Cove
Trueman-Border, Ron   Rageing Sea
Vincent, Mervyn   The Farewell Shanty
Warner, John   Anderson' Coast, Batavia
Watson, Bob   Mollymauk, Shantyman, Neptune's Daughter, Tasman Buster
Wisner, Tom   Cheseapeake Born
Wooley, Shep   Down By The Dockyard Wall
Zentz, Bob   Light From the Lighthouse

                   The Last Fisherman
?                   Birkenhead Drill
?                   Lower the Yawl Boat Down
?                   The Old Sailor
?                   Fisherman's Wife
?                   Cornish Lads
?                   The Merchant Navy Men
?                   The Loss of the Evelyn Marie