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14 May 99 - 09:00 AM (#78371) Subject: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty? From: MMario The is a shanty page out on the web that has the following qoute at the top:
When Ham and Shem and Japhet, they walked the capstan round, Anyone know it? MMario |
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16 May 99 - 10:57 PM (#79033) Subject: RE: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty? From: Barry Finn Hugill uses that passage at the end of his preface in his Shanties Of The Seven Seas. He credits it from "Chanteys & Ballads" by Harry Kemp around the 1920's. Harry was a poet, nicknamed the 'Poet of the Dunes' around Provincetown, Mass. I hope this helps a little. Barry |
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17 May 99 - 08:53 AM (#79103) Subject: RE: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty? From: MMario Thanks Barry! Gives me a place to start looking if I ever get to a place with "hardcopy". MMario |
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27 Feb 07 - 05:43 PM (#1981198) Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN HAM AND SHEM AND JAPHET (Harry Kemp) From: Charley Noble Barry's correct. This poem by Harry Kemp is from his book CHANTEYS AND BALLADS, published by Brentano's, New York, © 1920, pp. 81-82. When Ham and Shem and Japhet: A Sailor's Song When Ham and Shem and Japhet They walked the capstan round Upon the strangest vessel, Was ever outward bound, The music of their voices From wave to welkin rang: They sang the first sea-chantey That seamen ever sang: They sang of towns they'd been to, Of girls that they had known, Of what they'd done as children, Of how the years had flown, Of fights they'd had, and friendships, Of many a hearty spree -- The same as every sailor That sails upon the sea . . . Now Noah, he was sitting Alone and glum, below, A-puzzling just a little Why things were ordered so, (For, though his soul accepted What God commanded still, At times he knew misgivings As every good man will) -- When up above he heard them A-singing, outward bound, And walking, walking, walking, Walking the capstan round -- Then, just as quick, his worry, Passed like a gust of wind, And he shinned up the ladder And left his doubts behind, And with his great beard flowing, His grey robe pulled a-skew, He walked the capstan with them: He started singing too! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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27 Feb 07 - 06:12 PM (#1981237) Subject: RE: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty? From: masato sakurai Harry Kemp's Chanteys and ballads, sea-chanteys, tramp-ballads and other ballads and poems (1920) is at Internet Archive (click here). |
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27 Feb 07 - 08:39 PM (#1981336) Subject: RE: REQ:help with psuedo-shanty? From: Charley Noble Masato Sakurai- Thanks so much for the link to this libraries archive website. I wasn't aware of this one. It's likely that more any more of the source books we're interested in may be equally accessible in the near future by this type of digital archives. Charley Noble |