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06 Oct 01 - 05:31 PM (#566380) Subject: Running down to Cuba From: CET I would like to get some lyrics for a sea shanty called Running Down to Cuba. It's in the DigiTrad, but only a few verses. I think there are more. Thanks Edmund |
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06 Oct 01 - 05:51 PM (#566395) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Jeri This is how it looks in the DT. I find the "(I've got a gal about nine feet tall etc. etc._)" at the end a bit weird. (2nd line would be "sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall.") I know a few other verses (I think), but I don't know the whole song.
Runnin' down to Cuba with a load of sugar |
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06 Oct 01 - 05:57 PM (#566397) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Jeri By the way, CET - welcome home, Happy Thanksgiving, and I'm sorry for misspelling your initials on the Portsmouth Fest thread. |
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06 Oct 01 - 10:44 PM (#566520) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Crane Driver There are no "right" words for a shanty. It's a work song, and the shantyman had to make it last as long as the job lasted. So he'd sing anything to keep it going. That's why the same verses crop up in shanty after shanty. Any version in print is just one way one particular shantyman sang it once. He may never have sang the same set of verses again. So sing the verses you like, make the song as long as you like. That's the true traditional way of doing it. If anyone doesn't believe me, read Stan Hugill's introduction to "Shanties from the Seven Seas" Haul away! |
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07 Oct 01 - 06:16 AM (#566673) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Dead Horse Heartily agree with "Crane Driver", but will of course add that there are wrong ways to sing a shanty, and that IMHO most are sung too fast. You try haulin' on a rope or runnin' a capstan round to the speed what some folks sing at !!! Running Down to Cuba is in Hugill, but my copy is out on loan, so I am without his printed version. Sing any damn thing you like, son. But sing it loud. |
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07 Oct 01 - 06:20 AM (#566674) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: AllisonA(Animaterra) CET, send Barry Finn a PM- he sang a lot more verses of this song at an informal sing at the Portsmouth Fest! |
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07 Oct 01 - 07:20 AM (#566689) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: CET Thanks all. I am aware that there is no right way to sing a shanty. I was simply looking for other verses. Maybe I will make up some of my own. Edmund |
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07 Oct 01 - 09:35 AM (#566715) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Charley Noble CET - What you're asking for makes a lot of sense to me. Before I lead a shanty for the first time I try to collect what verses I can, puzzling out which ones are traditional and which ones more contemporary, and then arranging them in what order makes the most sense to me, and maybe making minor word changes or adding "fill-in" verses. The shakedown process usually takes a couple of months before the song feels right. Barry does a fine job with his rendition of "Running Down to Cuba." |
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07 Oct 01 - 04:51 PM (#566967) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Bat Goddess CET, you may also have heard Bruce MacIntyre sing it at The Press Room session or during the festival. Bat Goddess |
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07 Oct 01 - 06:37 PM (#567046) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Running down to Cuba From: Barry Finn That was Bruce doing this, Barry does sing a few shanties but he didn't know that this was one of them, wish it was. Barry |