Help Name a Sailortown CD!

Subject: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:26 PM

Our sea music group Roll & GO is working up a set of songs that we plan to record this winter but we're not sure what to call it. Most of the songs will be drinking songs, some traditional but a few contemporary, mostly of a nautical bent. Some of the titles we've discussed include:

All for Me Grog
Three Sheets to the Wind
Bar to Bar
Crossing the Bar
Vast Heaving
Mariner's Compass
Songs of Sailortown
Agog with Grog
A-Rollin' Down Paradise Street

We'd welcome other great titles or responses to those above.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:35 PM

Roll and Go -- Listing to Port

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Noreen
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:37 PM

NOT Vast Heaving- isn't that what you do over the side when the sea's rough??

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:39 PM

Not bad, Tom!

Let There be No Moaning at the Bar?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:40 PM

Noreen-

Yep!

Charley

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:44 PM

You could use the old salt's over the rail call, "Ralph! O'Rourke!"

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:46 PM

Or, Roll and Go -- All Sheets To the Wind!

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:55 PM

Or "Lift Up the Top Sheet and Spanker"

Charley

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 08:57 PM

Isn't that a bit more kinky than inebriate?

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 10:00 PM

We're easy! This is Sailortown!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Sep 03 - 10:17 PM

Splicing the mainbrace

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 12:37 AM

Let's hoist one to the grand days of Sailortown, perhaps.

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: GUEST,Chip2447
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:23 AM

A sailors life for me:

Why stagger when you can crawl:

Pub kegs and Sea legs:

Heave Ho:

Bilgewater and wharf rats:

The devil to pay:

I'm sure I'll think of more.
Chip2447

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 02:42 AM

Can Of Grog

Wail And Blubber

From Beer To Fraternity

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 01:55 PM

Cheerly, Man

Or here's an idea for a 3-CD set of nautical drinking songs:

All at Sea
Awash
Full Fathom Five

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 02:23 PM

Keep 'em comin', lads! If wishes were fishes!

Let's see, in a dream last night I came up will a brilliant title, but for some reason I can't remember it now...ah, got it:

Three Wheets to the Sind!

Then there's:

Anchor Lane to Shinbone Al

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 04:43 PM

"Sailing to Pissantium"....



Regards

p.s. Actually, I reckon "All for me grog" would be very good - if not used already!

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: MartinRyan
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 05:09 PM

" We'll guzzle pisco, beer and gin..."

Regards

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 05:29 PM

Martin-

I'm sure someone has used "All For Me Grog" but it's still a favorite contender and maybe we'll have to recycle it again.

Now there's the old expression "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion" meaning everything neat and seamanlike. Would it be unduly rude to title what we're doing as "Shitfaced and Bristol Fashion"?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: JWB
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 05:37 PM

Here're some ideas:

A Kiss from Nancy Dawson
Sucking the Monkey
A Drop o' Nelson's Blood
A Steaming Dram

Have fun!

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 07:52 PM

I suppose if we want to ride the wave of Patrick O'Brian admirers, and we do love his books, we could do worse than:

Kicking Up Bob's A-Dying!

Which is how Capt. Aubrey describes what his crew is likely to if permitted a run ashore.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: JWB
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 08:34 PM

Some more:

A Big Fat Aching Head
Drunken Sailors
Get Up Jack, John Sit Down
Fathom the Bowl
Drown Melancholy
Toss Off A Full Bumper

Hmmm, that dog's nose I imbided 30 minutes ago was inspiring.

Skoal,

Jerry

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 08:50 PM

In the days of the 5 gallon jar

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: GUEST, Sailargh JD
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 10:38 PM

Greetings,

Inspired to sign up to provide other than a "guest" response!

I like your originals of:
All for Me Grog
Three Sheets to the Wind (girl group fm Ontario name though not title)
A-Rollin' Down Paradise Street

Other possibilities might include:
Unsteady Compass
Lubber's Line
Heavin'/Heaving Line - a sailor's pub crawl in song

Cheers, Sailargh/JD
Victoria Nautical Song Circle

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 10:52 PM

Passin' the booze in Callahan's Bar

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: LadyJean
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 11:00 PM

Much as I like Splicing the mainbrace, or, of course, Kicking up Bob's a' dying, I did have to suggest, Any Port In A Storm.

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: GUEST,Mickey191
Date: 26 Sep 03 - 11:27 PM

This song is totally out of place for your purposes, but it seems this is a good spot to ask a question. I've just discovered "Shiver Me Timbers" done beautifly by Bette Midler. The melody is haunting, and I think Tom Waites wrote it.   My question: What does Shiver Me Timbers mean?

Thanks.

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 27 Sep 03 - 12:55 PM

"Shiver me timbers" means such a violent shudder or start that you feel as though you are coming apart.

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Sep 03 - 08:26 AM

Well, after getting back from the Portsmouth Maritime Festival I awoke at 3 in the morning with what seemed a brilliant title. I wonder what it was? It may have been "Rolling Down to Sailortown" but I'm not sure. Got to write these things down.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm sure there will be a few more but we're getting close to battening down the hatches on this one.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Sep 03 - 08:52 AM

Pints of the Compass

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Sep 03 - 07:06 PM

My brother and his wife suggested:

"Pissin' to Windward"

Well, that's one title that jumps right out at you!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Sep 03 - 05:12 PM

The title's that we like best center on "Sailortown." That way we can do the drinking songs and other adventures songs, coming into port with great anticipation songs, leaving port in state of dissipation songs. Lots of songs to, shall we say, flesh out the experience!

So far the favorite contenters are:

All for Me Grog
Three Sheets to the Wind
Rolling Down Paradise Street
Listing to Port
Splicing the Main Brace
Fathom the Bowl
Kicking Up Bob's A-Dying
Rolling Down to Sailortown

The title shouldn't be too obscure. It's nice when there's a rhyme in it. It's nice when it includes nautical jargon. Right now I'm also pawing my way through Stan Hugill's graphics in his wonderful book entitled Sailortown, looking for inspiring cover graphics.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 05:29 PM

Now here's a fine title that The Portsmouth Shanty Men used for one of their CD's: "Heaving at the Bars."

However, the songs appear to be a mixture of general forebitters and shanties rather than exclusively focused on Sailortown.

I note that one of the sea music groups Marc Bernier of Mystic has worked with is called "All for Me grog."

The best books I've run across about Sailortown are those written by Stan Hugill and C. Fox Smith, although Herbert Asbury also does a great job on San Francisco's Barbary Coast.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: smallpiper
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 06:27 PM

over the yardarm?

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Leo Condie
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 06:32 PM

"Hic"

Subject: RE: Help Name a Sailortown CD!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 07:56 PM

There's another sea shanty group called "Starboard List."

How about "All Coil Down, Then Off to Sailortown"?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble