23 Jun 21 - 10:19 AM (#4111116) Subject: On Board the Angleseey From: GUEST,Recordings Hi gang In Stan's shanty bible, towards the end, is a song called "I'll go to sea no more on board the Anglesey". Does anyone know of any recordings of this song? Apple music and those nice Google people are silent on this one. Ta. Shantyjobn |
23 Jun 21 - 08:51 PM (#4111160) Subject: RE: On Board the Angleseey From: Joe Offer Well, I found this (click) from the National Park Service, which appears to be a transcript of a recording of Peter Kasin talking about the Anglesey. Here's the video: https://www.nps.gov/av/pwr/avElement/safr-TheAngleseycards.mp4 Here's the "front door' to the video: https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=99909980-BCD0-41AA-BE73-C4497BDDE2D3 This song is on page 588, the very last song in Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas. Peter recently retired from his job as Chanteyranger at the National Maritime Museum at Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco. I met him in about 1996, when Mudcat got started, and he has posted here many times. He's a good friend. Wish I'd see him more often. -Joe- |
23 Jun 21 - 09:25 PM (#4111161) Subject: ADD: The Anglesey (from Hugill) From: Joe Offer THE ANGLESEY It was one fine day in the month o' May An' I was outward bound. I hadn't any tin to pay for gin, So I walked the streets all round. My coat was out at the elbows, An' I was sore in need, So I shipped as a little sailor boy, On board of the Anglesey. CHORUS Then no more I'll go to sea, Across the Western Ocean, A-haulin' an' a-pullin' I never will again; Then no more I'll go to sea, Across the Western Ocean, For evermore I'll stay on shore, An' go to sea no more! No more for me the ?rst look-out, No more the wheel I’ll take; No more gaff-tops’l tacks I’ll shift, Nor a-haul till me back does break; No more I’ll shout ‘All’s well, sir!’ Nor pump away for life, But I’ll go ashore an’ get a wife, From on board of the Anglesey. CHORUS No more will I reef, no more will I furl, Square in the crojik yard; No more the brightwork I will scrape with sand and canvas hard; No more up aloft will I fly, with a grease-pot in me hand, But I’ll go ashore for evermore, From on board of the Anglesey. CHORUS No more I’ll stand by the royal halyards, Nor eat their crackerhash; No soul an’ body lashin’s tie, nor in saltwater wash; No tarring down of backstays, no haul on the lee-fore-brace But I’ll pack me bag an’ go ashore, From on board of the Anglesey. CHORUS Hugill's introduction to the song is fascinating:
mariner——Captain Popieul of Antwerp. He told me it was popular when he was serving his time ‘in the Norwegian sailing ship Ingrid of Larvik (ex-Anglesey of Liverpool) in the year of 1906’. Source: Shanties of the Seven Seas, by Stan Hugill, 1961 (pp 587-589) |
24 Jun 21 - 04:47 PM (#4111251) Subject: RE: Origins: (On Board) The Anglesey (from Hugill) From: Gibb Sahib From 2010, before spatially-distanced video-song collaborations were common (?): I recruited YouTube users, etc. to do this one, from _Shanties From the Seven Seas_. The Anglesey (a YouTube collaboration) |
24 Jun 21 - 10:25 PM (#4111278) Subject: RE: Origins: (On Board) The Anglesey (from Hugill) From: Joe Offer That was fun, Gibb!! |