Lyr Req: Sailing Songs

Subject: Sailing Songs
From: GUEST,Captain Roberts
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 11:44 PM

Ok, I need some help here. I haven't heard the lyrics to these two tunes in 6 or 7 years and I am desperate for titles and lyrics.

The first is about the life of a Shantyman at the end of the age of sail. The final chorus is

But now once more, the great tall riggers
Sail the oceans wide...
The worksongs ringing out once more
The shanties never died...

The second is a pirate song, dealing with a small crew that goes into battle. They lose nothing but the leg of their cabin boy which they replace with a leg forged of gold. The song starts

It was august and still hot
When on board the ship we got
Shot and powder for our guns
And 10 gallons each of rum
Salt Cod to last us through the winter squall

PLEASE! If you have any information on these tunes leave me a message here or email me at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing Songs
From:
Date: 10 Aug 00 - 12:18 AM

This song is about right.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing Songs
From:
Date: 10 Aug 00 - 12:20 AM

OOps! Too late in the day.

Recall by Tom Lewis

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing Songs
From: GUEST,Captain Roberts
Date: 11 Aug 00 - 05:05 AM

THANK YOU! I never would have guessed that it was "Recall". You've made my month...at least!

Subject: Lyr Add: RECALL (Tom Lewis)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:31 AM

Copied from http://www.tomlewis.net/~tomlewis/LYRICS/recall.html

RECALL
(Tom Lewis)

The War to End Wars ended and I told my friends at school,
"Someday I'll sail around the world!" They laughed and called me "Fool."
But even as a youngster, I was stubborn as a mule.
I set out to be a sailor man.

I signed aboard my first ship with a bright and cheerful song.
They said I was a nightingale who eased the work along.
I learned the old men's stories and the work chants loud and strong.
That's how I became a shanty man.

I screamed just like a banshee to be heard above the gales,
To keep the watch in unison and help them reef the sails.
The crew were tough as whipcord, the Skipper hard as nails.
Still they needed this young shanty man.

But days of sail were ending and steamships coming fast.
I watched them sail into the wind, no sail set at the mast.
Black coal to drive them onward and no more the cool, clear blast,
A cold wind blowing for the shanty man.

Sitting on the capstan as my mates walked round,
I fiddled to the rhythm of the pawl and ratchet sound,
But hissing steam and clanking piston need no music now.
Say goodbye to one old shanty man.

Long decades past without the work songs roaring to the sky,
And sailor men upon the beach could only wonder why.
Those graceful ships of yesteryear no more would greet their eye.
Washed up like flotsam was the shanty man.

But now once more the great square-riggers sail the oceans wide,
Those tall ships filled with green, young sailors working side by side.
The old songs ringing out again. The shanties never died.
Hoist Blue Peter for the shanty man.
Blue Peter's hoisted for the shanty man.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailing Songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 01:35 AM

It appears that Captain Roberts' other question was answered in this thread:
Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics