Jolly Mariner & Crew (Canal Shanties)

13 Feb 08 - 05:54 PM (#2261732)
Subject: Folklore: JOLLY MARINER & CREW
From: GUEST,MRS FLANNERY-

This thread is a spinoff started from a previous thread (see Joe's link to it below). Here is the text of the post this responds to:

Subject: RE: Folklore: Phil Callery
From: MartinRyan - PM
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 04:44 PM

Weren't Tony and Dominic playing high-class country music a few years back - complete with bootlace ties? Still at it?

Regards

p.s. Cobh in June is sea shanty time - you Midlands folks wouldn't understand.... Mind you, I ran a sea shanty session in Sean's (try saying that afer severial pints) Bar in Athlone, many years ago - just for the kick of singing them as far as you can get from the sea in Ireland!

Regards

Yeah hear you talkin Martin.--not put down by that !
We have lots of Canal Shanties here in the midlands too---songs of haunted barges, canal buchaneers,lock pirates, flatland privateers,lonesome cabin buoys, uncharted and perch infested waters,
Deep Ellem district in Shannon Harbour etc ,etc.
Bet ther are some Shannon Shanties too ,even if if they were not sung at Seans.
We shipped on board of a Shannon Bridge liner wey hey --etc.

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13 Feb 08 - 06:04 PM (#2261738)
Subject: RE: Folklore: JOLLY MARINER & CREW
From: Charley Noble

????

Am I missing part of the conversation?

Charley Noble

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13 Feb 08 - 06:14 PM (#2261752)
Subject: RE: Folklore: JOLLY MARINER & CREW
From: Leadfingers

I dont think thats MY Midlands ! My Midlands is Gas Street - That looks like Ireland

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13 Feb 08 - 06:18 PM (#2261757)
Subject: RE: JOLLY MARINER & CREW
From: Joe Offer

I think it's an offshoot of the discussion here (click)

-Joe-

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13 Feb 08 - 07:03 PM (#2261807)
Subject: RE: Jolly Mariner & Crew
From: Leadfingers

Thanks Joe . I KNEW it wasnt Brum !!

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02 Jan 26 - 12:38 PM (#4233701)
Subject: RE: Jolly Mariner & Crew
From: Stilly River Sage

A new participant to the Facebook announcement page is redirected to this thread to start his search for Canal Shanties. (We don't research lyrics or people on FB, just announce events and share photos and videos that can't display on Mudcat.)

His question:

Canal shanties. They exist, but finding their lyrics isn’t proving easy. The ones I’m seeking are those which were historically used on the inland waterways of the UK, not the USA. I’ve heard one indistinct verse of Dead Horse that was used on canal boats, but no lyrics. Any clues?

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02 Jan 26 - 12:57 PM (#4233703)
Subject: RE: Jolly Mariner & Crew (Canal Shanties)
From: Reinhard

There is a website Songs of the Inland Waterways.

And an older thread: Tune Req: British Canal/Waterway Songs

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