SeaSongs&Shanties V5.1 ASCII(long)

[Hugh Williamson]

Sea Chanteys, Forebitters, & other Songs of the Sea
V. 5.1

dated: 18 March, 1997

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INDEX:
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I: FAQ: Frequently Argued Questions about Sea Songs and
Shanties
II: Shanty, Forebitters, and Sea Song Titles:
>Capstan or Heaving Shanties
>Hauling Shanties (Halyards: Long-haulers)
>Hauling Shanties (Tacks and Sheets: Short-haulers)
>Hauling Shanties (General)
>Pumping Shanties
>Stoking Shanty
>Rowing or Paddling Shanty
>Forebitters
>Broadside Ballads
>Bawdy Songs and Bilge-Water Ballads
III: Recordings:
IV: Books of Sea Songs:
V: Bawdy Sea Song Books:
VI: Major Collections:
VII: Festivals of Shanties & Sea Music:
VIII: Regular Chanty Sings:
IX: Sources:
>Mail-Order Retailers
>Magazines
>General Reference Books
>Internet Contributors
>List Compiler

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I: FAQ-Frequently Argued Questions about Sea Songs and Shanties
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Sea Songs and Shanties FAQ

1. What is a "shanty"...or is it "chantey"?

Sea Shanties are the working songs of the crew of sailing
ships. The song is used to improve the efficiency of the crew
in accomplishing their manual labours on board the ship. Its
use is restricted to the working environment. ...but I'll let
Stan Hugill explain it.

"Chanteys, Shanties, or Chanties are "The work-songs of the
sailing-ship man; the staves John Salt, Huw Puw, Jean Mat'lot,
and Jan Maat tipped at capstan, halyard, sheet, and pumps. In
the Trades of off the pitch o' the Horn, in hail and snow, in
doldrums and calm, the not unmelodius voices of Yankee, Nigger,
Limey, Squarehead, Johnny Crapoo, and Dutchie would oft-times
be raised to cheer the soul, curse the afterguard and owner,
mark the beat, and lighten the labour.
"To the seamen of America, Britain, and northern Europe a
shanty was as much a part of the equipment as a sheath-knife
and pannikin. ..Shanties were ALWAYS (emphasis mine)
associated with work_and a rigid tabu held against singing them
ashore. When a sailor caroused ashore, or sang at sea in the
dog-watches, his choice would invariably be a popular ballad,
love song, or the like. To sing a shanty when there was no
heaving or hauling would be courting trouble_and the sailing
ship man was superstitious to a degree.
-------Stan Hugill

or from "The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea:

SHANTY or CHANTEY, old ships' songs sung on board to lighten
the labour of working the ship. They were broadly divided into
two classes the capstan shanties, designed to produce a
continuous effort such as would be required from men heaving on
the capstan bars, and halyard shanties, where the accent was
placed on occasional words or notes to encourage the men to
pull together, as when swaying up a spar. They all follow the
same pattern, with short solo verses and rollicking choruses.
Many of them have become famous as much for their tunes as for
their words, such as 'Shenandoah', Rolling Home', 'Billy Boy',
'Bound for the Rio Grandee and perhaps best known of all, Blow
the Man Down'. With the coming of steam to do much of the hard
work of the ship, the shanty lost its purpose and was no longer
used at sea, and by 1875 had disappeared in its proper context
being heard only as a turn in a concert-party or a sing-song.
The earliest known example of a true shanty, sung to co
ordinate the efforts of men working on the capstan bars, occurs
in the Complaynt of Scotland, published about 1450, and Haul
the Bowline' must be very nearly as old as in the earliest days
of sail the bowline was the most important rope in a ship. The
words of many shanties often varied from ship to ship,
sometimes to incorporate local personalities or to lengthen the
words of a song if the words ran out before a task was
completed, a good Shantyman could improvise new words to keep
the Song going without a break. But though the words might
differ, the tunes never varied.
Shanties were essentially merchant service songs, and were
rarely heard in warships. The reason for this was that merchant
ships were frequently undermanned so that the owners might make
the more profit, and encouragement in the form of a shanty was
necessary to make up for loss in numbers by proper co-
ordination of the physical efforts put out by each man.
Warships, on the other hand, were in comparison overmanned, the
large number of men required to man the guns in battle being
almost always available for the purely seamanship duties which
required a heavy effort, such as weighing an anchor or swaying
up a main yard.

2. What is a shanty and how do you spell it?

As previously explained, a Shanty is a work song used on board
a sailing ship, usually of European or North American origin.

The most common spelling today is "SHANTY". However, you will
also see it spelled as Chanty, Chantey, and Santy. The pleural
is usually "Shanties".

The word has several reported derivations. It might referred to
the French verb to sing; Chanter. It might refer to the
Shanties, or shacks which served as brothels and bars in the
Caribbean, or to the shanties of the Lumbermen (often called
Shanteyboys), who also sang work co-ordinating songs. It also
could refer to the West Indian bamboo hut, which was often
moved on log rollers, by a group of African descendants, whose
labour was co-ordinated by a chant leader.

The Shanty is a mixture of the a number of musical influences.
You can hear the Celtic" ceilidh mouth music", Irish and
Breton traditional melodies, Afro-American Call and Response, ,
and , so I'm told, a distinctive West African use of minor
thirds.

The importance of a particular shanty was the suitability of
its rhythm to a specific task on board ship. Thus the worlds
could, and would change, but the tune and rhythm never did.

No one can say for sure what the correct spelling is , and so I
will use either one as the mood takes me.

3. Who composed the chanties?

Chanties probably have as many origins as there are chanties.
Some were direct importations of traditional land songs, some
were marine words to a borrowed tune (i.e. Donkey riding-
heighland laddie), and some were undoubtedly original
compositions.

Many popular tunes of the day were lifted wholesale for shanty
use, such as Battle Hymn of the Republic, Roll The Chariot, or
even adaptations of popular poems like Rolling Home. In the
19th Century, particularly the first half, the distinction
between folk music, popular music, and even classical music was
not at all definitive. Everybody stole from everybody else
quite freely. Which is what they do now, and should...
4. Are chanties just sung in English?

No. Working people, and that of course includes seamen and
women, have sung while they toiled in every culture and since
before recorded history. In the general area of sea music,
especially fishing music, there are well known examples from
many cultures. Chanties, however, had their heyday during the
19th century and on several major trading routes: the cotton
trade from the southern USA to Europe, the lumber trade from
New Brunswick and Quebec to England, the clipper ships to the
orient, and the immigrant trade to Australia.

The majority of the seamen on these routes were British
(including a large number of Scots and Irish), American (White
and Black), Canadian (from the Maritimes who were of Irish ,
Scottish and Acadian French descent) and a few Scandinavians
and other mixed Europeans. Their choice of music would
obviously reflect their heritage, and also be more readily
collected into the folk music archives. Since English language
chantying was the dominant form, many foreign seamen adapted
English shanties to their own language, often singing the
chorus in English. There are, however many excellent shanty
collection in other languages, the French collections being
among the best (see Part II).

France, Germany, Holland, Britain, and especially Poland have
seen huge revivals of the genre, with dozens of fine groups and
recordings by sailors and landsmen alike.
5. What is Sea Music?

Sea Music, is music which has a connection with the oceans,
seas, and their tributaries, and with those who live in, on ,
under, or around these bodies of water, and those who just
dream about them. An attempt will be made to limit the
discussion in this way, as one could probably expand the topic
to include all the waters of the earth, but then we'd have to
discuss Rain music, Ice Music, Snow music, and probably Steam
music as well. This would inevitable lead to being forced to
include Casey Jones and other Train songs, and discussions as
to whether the line had turned to Diesel when the wreck
occurred, etc. So to avoid this, distinctions will be made, and
classifications introduced to impose some order onto chaos.

There are reasons for doing this. One being that people's
musical tastes will dictate what they like to listen to, and
how they like it performed. So if we can help them identify
something which they might like to listen to, this FAQ will
have served a useful purpose.

These distinctions, or categories are based on the authors
philosophy of the meaning of life, and specifically on that
most difficult moral conundrum "What is Folk Music?".

Folk Music is that which is performed by the people, for the
people themselves and their own enjoyment. It is a music of
participation, which the people carry with them at all times,
and may perform spontaneously, with or without, or by means of
instrumental accompaniment. It may also be hummed?

...and now that I've got THAT out of my system...on to the
subject at hand.

"Sea Music" can be divided into two categories. Music that is,
or was performed at sea, by those men who worked on the sea,
and music that romanticises the sea, usually written and
performed by landlubbers. The former is Music of the Sea, the
latter is Music about the Sea.

This FAQ will focus on Music OF the Sea. However, since many
ships carried bands and orchestras, the topic will further be
limited to what could be called the "Folk Music of the Sea".

On this basis, our Sea of the Sea can be further divide
according to the lifestyle and employment of the performers.

Sailormen
Whalermen
Fishermen
Boatmen and Canalmen
Longshoremen and Stevedores

This will have specific relevance , as it heavily influences
the geographical distribution, subject matter, and work
rhythms.

This FAQ will, unfortunately, for the time being, only cover
Sea Music of the Western Tradition (Europe and its political
and cultural colonies), and mainly the English language
variants. This is because most of the material which I have
been able to find is in, and about English Shanty's and Sea
Songs. As I obtain additional material, I will include it. All
contributions are most welcome

6. Aren't all sea songs chanteys?
No. The shanty was specifically a work song. On a sailing ship
it served two functions. First, it's verse structure and rhythm
was designed to co-ordinate the physical exertions of the crew
for tasks which required the combined strength of a number of
men: pushing or pulling on bars, ropes, oars and the like. The
second function, was to help break the tedium monotony of long
spells of pumping or weighing anchor.

The other type of song sung aboard sailing ships were called
forebitters. These were sung for recreation, usually during the
evening when the crew was off watch, or in harbour.
Recreational singing on board merchant ships was either carried
out in the Forecastle or foc'sle, the forward part of the ship
where the crew lived, or on deck gathered around the fore
bitts. Recreational sailor's songs are therefore either called
"fo'c'sle songs" or "forebitters" ,
7. What is the difference between a shanty and a forebitter?
In musical form, there are several major distinctions. The
emphasis in a Chantey is on rhythm, with each one chosen for
it's suitability for the job at hand. The Forebitter was sung
for enjoyment, and so it was often a popular tune of the day,
with the emphasis on the words and music.
8. How are chanties used?
Shanties were primarily a square-rigger phenomenon, though they
are not exclusive to them. Most of the jobs on a fore and aft
rig ship or boat don't need quite the massed and sustained
muscle power that was needed on a square rigger.
They used windlasses, but I think we are talking about two
different animals. I assume the windlass you are discussing is
a little crank windlass, of the sort found on most modern
sailing craft. The windlass of the old square riggers was a
massive horizontal cylinder that was turned by inserting bars
into holes and giving it a tug or push, or they were break
windlasses that worked off of rocking bars, like a pump.
Shanties come in all tempos and rhythms, and are geared to
different tasks. The capstan shanties (like Santy Anna, Rio
Grande, etc. etc.) are made for trudging along for hours
pulling up the anchor. Since I imagine you raise your little
mud hook by power-winch, these are right out.
Next come the pump shanties, like Leave Her Johnny or South
Australia.
Since you most certainly have an electric pump, these are out
too.
Then there are the bunt shanties. They are used to pull up and
furl a sail and are only used on square riggers (Paddy Doyle's
Boots).
Finally, there are the Halyard shanties. They are the shanties
used for hauling on a line, and they might have some use. They
come in an almost infinite variety of tempos and rhythms,
depending on the job for which they were best suited. For
tough jobs, like raising the upper topsail yard, you might use
something like "Haul Away Joe", where the shantyman calls a
verse, and on the refrain, the crew pulls once or twice, really
hard. They then rest and recover their grip and footing while
the shantyman sings another verse. It is not likely that you
will need one of the hard pull halyard shanties (like Whisky
Johnny, Hangin' Johnny, Ranzo-Ray etc.), but you might want to
have a few in reserve if you should suddenly have to mass
everyone on a line for a really hard pull.
The most likely shanty for the sorts of work you would do on a
schooner would be a "Stamp-and-go" or "Runaway" halyard shanty.
These are up-tempo shanties for continuous pulls, without long
rest breaks. They are used for easy pulls. "Drunken Sailor"
and "Roll the Old Chariot" are good examples of this type.
Generally though, the rules of thumb should be:

1. The task is performed by two or more people, working at
the same rhythm (you can sing to yourself if you like, but
somehow it loses something)
2. The shanty should match the optimum rhythm for the job.
Any shanty that does is the "right" shanty for the job.
3. The people who are pulling should be able to sing a shanty
without feeling like complete prats.

Bonne Voyage-wn

One particular utilitarian peculiarity of shanty singing is
that once the task at hand was completed the song was stopped.
At the bos'n or chantyman's cry of "vast heaving" or a similar
indication to stop pulling, the chanty was stopped as well. No
final verse or chorus, not even the line was completed. Like
any tool, the chanty was put away immediately when it was no
longer needed. Indeed, as previously mentioned, it was often
considered bad luck to continue with the shanty after the work
was finished.
9. What are the different types of Chanties?
According to Stan Hugill, there were nine different types of
Shanty, broadly divided into Hauling and Heaving Shanties.
Hauling shanties were used for pulling on ropes. Heaving
Shanties were used for working the pumps, windlass, and
capstan.

Further subdivisions are:

Hauling Shanties
Long Drag or "halyard shanties" for raising sail
Short Drag or Tacks and Sheets for setting and trimming
sail
Hand over Hand
Walkaways
Sweatup
Bunting
These songs were often quite short, with unconnected verses,
and a regular chorus for the pull. Hauling jobs required short
strong pulls.

Heaving
Windlass
Capstan
Pumping
These songs were usually quite long and structured, with
multiple verses. Ballads were popular, often in 6/8 time.
Heaving jobs could be very long, sometimes hours of walking
around the capstan or manning the pumps. Pumps or brake
windlasses could have a push pull or double action, shoulder
to waist, waist to knees, requiring a more complicated rhythm

On shanty types, not all are used to time rhythm of work,
though most are.
Menhaden shanties, for instance, are sung in the breaks
between pulling and
totally out of tempo. Their function is one of morale and to
give a rest
from work. But all are associated with work.

Here are translations of the different types of chanties:

ENGLISH FRENCH USE
Hauling Chanty Chants a hisser short drags
Hand over hand Chants a hisser main sur main longer drags
Heaving Chanty
Capstan Chants a virer Slow march around
the capstan
Heaving Chanty:
Windlass Chants de Guindeau Pulling on the
levers
of a windlass
Rowing Chanty Chants a ramer Pulling Oars
Pulling Chants a dehaler
Dances Chants a danser Hornpipes etc.
Forebitters Complaintes maritime singing the blues
Pumping Chanty Chants a pomper staying afloat

10. Why were chanties important?
Economics.

The crews of the merchant ships were usually kept as small as
possible, and it was often said that a good chantey was worth
an extra man pulling on a line. A good chantey man meant a lot
to the efficiency, and the moral of the crew.

A good chanty man had a loud voice: the better to carry over
the sounds of wind and wave, and a large repertoire, from which
he could choose a song suitable for the task. The chantey man's
job was to sing, not necessarily to pull on the rope.

11. So, weren't chanties sung on board naval ships?

No, for several reasons. In the Navy, vessels were manned to
the level needed to fight. Large crews were needed to man the
numerous guns, and were therefore available to handle the
heaving and hauling. singing was discouraged because it
interfered with spoken or shouted orders. work was co-ordinated
through the use of the bos'n pipe, a whistle which signalled
when to pull. The only exception might be to have a fiddler at
the capstan when heaving in the anchor.

This is not to say that the work was easy on naval ships. To
put things in perspective, during the 7 years war, which
started in 1756, the Royal Navy lost 1512 seamen to enemy
action, and 133,708 to disease. The most common cause of death
was a strangulated hernia, usually caused by hauling in sail
while bent over a yardarm.

12. What is a "Stamp and Go"?

`Stamp and go,' as a means of raising a load, requires both a
crowd and an expanse of deck. As such, it works very well when
you have a heavy load and a lot of crew. But it takes space,
lest you make a cock-up of it, or injure someone ("I is for
Eye-bolt, no good for the feet"). Made great sense in the days
of the sail Navy, when the gunnery crew doubled as meat on the
hoof. Bloody damn useless if you had five men to raise a two-
ton yard.
To execute this manoeuvre, the crew falls in along the line to
be hauled, facing AWAY from the load. They then take the line
either along side or over their shoulders. Instead of the
normal haul, which is facing the load and with feet firmly
planted in a fixed position, the `stamp-and-go' is performed by
`walking away' with the line, carrying it down the deck. As
each sailor reaches the front of the line, he lets go, and
hastens back down to the back (nearest the load) of the line to
resume a `round robin'

X ----------------------------------------------------- LOAD
<- <- <- <- <- <- <- <- <-
V
=> => => => => C

Key: LOAD - a turning block, most likely
---- - the line being hauled
X - crew member who tails off the line to keep it
out of the way
<- - crew members hauling line away from load
V - crew member who has dropped the line and is
turning
=> - crew members hastening back to tail of line
C - chanteyman

This all happens at anything from a trudge to a trot, and in
any case gets the work done much quicker than more conventional
short- or long-haul methods. But, as you can see from the
illustration, it requires a bit more room than is usually
available on a small (under 100 foot) vessel, and perhaps more
people as well. Also, because of the pace, and the number of
people applying force, it requires some care that the crew does
`avast' when told to `avast,' lest something get broken up
aloft.
For those fond of comparative studies, when hauling the fore
tops'l yard on the Joseph Conrad, with around a dozen mixed
AB's and green hands on the halyard, I sing about 6 verses of a
two pull chantey (24 pulls) to finish the job in a conventional
manner. No matter the strength of the crew, the job proceeds
apace, and crew being fixed to the deck, the halyard will move
no more than an arm's length on each pull. But, Conrad's yards
are rather light, so with the same dozen, who were mostly
idling before, it is possible to turn them about for a `stamp
and go.' This will generally have 8 on the line at a given
time, and four in transit back to the end of queue. Sing out
with `Drunken Sailor,' and you'll not finish two verses and the
intervening chorus before `high enough.' Sung sprightly, the
yard will be up in half the time or less, with the very winded
crew looking aloft in disbelief and saying alternately `Wow!'
and `Whew!'
I could imagine the same activity on a schooner with heavy
gaffs, though the need to synchronise peak and throat halyards
would be a complication (not to say that you might not be able
to haul BOTH down the same line, if you were really, really
good).

However, if there isn't work for, at minimum, a half dozen good
ABs, the stamp-and-go diminishes to an absurd activity, and
falls away in favour of a hand-over-hand.

Greg

13. Were shanties sung unaccompanied?

Historically,...Probably.
While we have good evidence of the presence of musical
instruments on board ship, it is probably unlikely that these
instruments would have been taken on deck if there was an
danger of their being damaged from storm, spray or risk of
accident. All situations which would accompany most situations
where heaving or hauling was necessary. As well, when you are
playing an instrument, your hands are not available for
working, something which would have been important on a
merchant sailing ship.

But who's to say, with any degree of authority, that these
songs were not sung to co-ordinate a lazy pull, while at
anchor, on a warm tropical night in the South Seas or Caribbean
, with the FOO FOO band in attendance. ( You can pretend to be
shrieking your unaccompanied chanty in the teeth of a north
Atlantic winter gale if you choose. I'll pretend to be a anchor
off Rarotonga. )

Chanties were probably not so much sung as howled into a gale.
There was not much harmony on all white crewed ships. It is
generally acknowledged by all the experts, Stan Hugill among
others , that the finest shanty singers were the African-
American/Caribbean sailors, and that they were capable of
singling harmony while working. Welsh sailors were also well
known for the quality of their singing. Some ships had what
was called a checkerboard crew, having a black (African
descent) watch and a white (European descent) watch, though
the crew was rarely integrated.

14. What is the difference between a "Capstan" and a
"Windlass"?
Both devices were designed to provide a heavy mechanical pull
on a rope, or chain. They were powered human muscle (often
ironically called Armstrong's Patent see Q. 30 for an
explanation). Both devices use levers to turn a drum, around
which the rope would be wrapped..

The capstan is mounted on the deck like a merry-go-round, with
the crew pushing on bars which were mounted like spokes on a
wheel. There would typically be three or four sailors per bar,
and six bars per Capstan. If more heaving was required, the
outer ends of the bar would be connected with ropes, called
swifters, giving additional hand holds. The effort here
involved leg power, walking in a circle while pushing on the
bar. It is a fairly smooth pull.

The windlass was mounted on the deck with the axes of the drum
parallel to the deck. It turned like a Ferris wheel. The power
was generated by pulling down on leavers which ratcheted on the
drum. The original design had removable bars, like spokes,
which were stuck into holes and levered down. Later models had
a racket on the bars, which would be swung back and forth. The
final improvement had a pump like mechanism, similar to a hand
pumped railcar. The action was a two stroke pumping motion,
often with a two stages of downward pull: over head to waist
pull, waist to knee level push, raise the handle for another
stroke.

15. What's the difference between heaving and hauling?
You haul on a rope. You heave on a capstan or windlass
16. Did only men sing chanties?
Well, to tell the truth---yes....and , no.
Historically, since chanties were used as work songs aboard
sailing ships, and since the crew were men, logic dictates that
these were men's songs. Notwithstanding the legends of the
handsome cabin boy, and others of women who disguised
themselves as men and went to sea, or the occasional instance
where women (passengers or family of crew) lent a hand, chanty
singing was an exclusively male preserve.

But that's historical. In contemporary chanty singing, it's
every man (and woman) for him/her self. There are many
excellent all men, all women and mixed chanty groups, and many
women serve on contemporary sailing ships as heavers, haulers,
and Chantymen.

..and in response to the folk purists who might claim that the
presence of a soprano voice detracts from the historical
accuracy of the song....the ships boys, powder monkeys and
nippers were, no doubt, an important part of the musical blend.
One could probably say that an historically accurate
presentation of a chanty would have to include high pitched
voices.

and tarry a while....there is something else...

In many ports, sailing vessels which arrives at the quay were
then hauled to their berths " by hand."
Photographs exist showing long lines of women hauling a vessel
into place, with the rope slung over their shoulders. The songs
they used had a low and slow rhythm, to promote a constant and
even effort. The rhythm of these songs was reinforced, at least
in some of the French and Dutch ports, by the heavy clunk of
wooden shoes (sabots) on the dock.

17. What are the other types of sea songs?
Broadside ballads and their contemporary equivalents. These
were (hopefully) popular songs which were printed up on
Broadsheets and hawked for pennies in the streets. They were
often written to commemorate real or imagined nautical events,
victories etc. It's been said that any song which begins "come
all ye" is probably a broadside ballad. If the sailors heard
them ashore and liked them sufficiently they might eventually
go to sea as a Forebitter. However, anything which began "Come
all ye jolly sailors" would probably be given short shrift by
the cynical sailors.
18. Where can I hear sea songs and shanties (recorded) and
Live
Part II of this FAQ includes a fairly comprehensive list of the
currently available recordings, and maritime festivals.

19. Where can I learn more about sea songs and shanties?
Probably the best location in the east in Mystic Seaport,
Connecticut. They have daily displays of heaving and hauling,
on real sailing ships, with real Chanteymen a Chanteying away.
Part II has a list of the better books and other materials
currently available. The most readily available written source,
and still one of the best is Stan Hugill's "Shanties from the
Seven Seas". It's "The Book".
20. Where can I sing sea songs and shanties?
A. South Street Seaport in Manhattan
Those seeking vocal diversion on Saturday May 18 will enjoy
joining us at South Street Seaport in Manhattan for the monthly
Sea Chantey sing.
Those familiar with the event will notice a time shift and a
venue shift. We'll be starting at 7PM, aboard the tall ship
Peking, which is one of the main features of the Seaport.
As always, call Bill Becker at (212) 748-8675 to get gate-
listed for this event (free, but a small donation to help with
costs and with ship preservation is much appreciated).

Dress warm, as we'll be outside (under a canopy if rain). And
BYOB.

If you can't make this one, the next one will be on June 22.

From: gr...@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)

Where: Seamen's Church Institute
(near South Street Seaport Museum)
241 Water Street (2nd floor)
New York, NY

When: 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening, February 24, 1996

Who: You

How: Telephone Bill Becker at 212-748-8675 to get your
name on the guest list: this will assure that you and
your guest(s) are allowed in.

Bring: A musical instrument, songs, a friend, your favourite
beverage, your voice, & your smile! The Seaman's Church
Institute also has refreshments (adult and other)
available
for charges ranging from free to nominal.

How much: Free--- but if you enjoy the evening, a donation to
help support the snail-mailing list and to help the
work of
our hosts (The Seaman's Church Institute, which helps
to provide a variety of social and spiritual services
to mariners who pass through the Port of New York)
is welcome.

B. San Francisco
Maritime Historical Park
first Saturday of every month (8 PM to Midnight)-gb

C. Washington
David LoVine is the shantyman for the Lady Washington, a tall
ship up in the Seattle area.
David sings traditional shanty songs and writes beautiful ones
of his own;
He has a CD out . He is a terrific live performer.

You can call 206 233-8535 or write to po box 65269, Port
Ludlow, WA. 98365
. There is also a toll-free # for the Lady Washington 800-
200-LADY

21. Where can I learn the "real" words to sea songs?
It is generally acknowledged that shanties, in their original
form, were usually pretty bawdy. This was not always the case,
however, as some Captains, especially the strong Methodists
from southern Nova Scotia, and puritans of New England would
not permit profanity. Also, if passengers, especially female
passengers were being carried, the songs were cleaned up.

Virtually all the current printed and recorded versions of
Shanties currently available are the "family" version. Even
Oscar Brand's recordings are pretty innocent. Some of the bawdy
versions can be found in the books listed in Part II, under
Bawdy sources. It is claimed that both Stan Hugill and Frank
Shay produced "original versions", but these have never been
seen in public, though we live in hope.

If anyone locates a copy of either :

Shay, Frank (as Dave E. Jones), A Collection of Sea Songs &
Ditties, from the stores of Dave E. Jones., USA (circa 1928) 44
pages

Hugill, Stanley J (As Long John Silver), Sailing Sea Chanties)
MS Aberdovey, Merioneth, Wales (circa 1956-57)

do let me know.

And for those who would like to see what on "original" shanty
was like, as sung, here are some examples, attributed to Stan
Hugill.
---------------------------------------------------------------
----
Home boys Home,

(from legman p.84) from an original manuscript by Stan Hugill,
collected in 1927 "from a former sailing-ship carpenter called
Anderson who had often shipped in Vickers' big four-posters out
of Liverpool) for the clean version, listen to the CD
Hauling Home-by Yankee Clipper

There once was a servant maid, on the Highway she did dwell,
she had no lovin' parents, oh , as fad as I could tell.
Early one mooring, oh , a sailor came from sea,
And that was the beginning of al her sweet miseree.

Singing home, home, home I wanter be,
Singing home, home, home, in my only counteree!
For the pine and the ash and bonnie ellum tree
Are all a-growin' green in sweet Nort' Amerikee

She took her fine young sailor boy and asked him in to tea,
And for a while the pair did dine and sing quite merrily,
And them he brought his rum flask our and offered her a dram,
And from that moment onwards, oh, her troubles they began.

He asked her for a candle, for to light him up to bed,
He asked her for a handkerchief to wrap around his head,
She-like a fool- thinkin' no harm,
Got in beside him, for to keep the sailor warm.

She had no lovin' husband, for to save her from his spell,
She had no kind young sister, did our sorry little Nell,
And very soon she'd dropped her drawers and let him sheet it
home,
He rammed it up until she felt it tickle her backbone.

Early nect6 mornin' , oh, the sailor he awoke,
hand in his pocket, oh, he pulled out a note,
Sayin' , Take this, me darlin', for the damage I have done,
For nine months ye'll have a daughter or a son.

Now if it be a daughter ye must bounce her on yer knee,
And if it be a son, pack the bastard off to sea,
And in his little tarpaulin-hat and his jacket o' navy blue,
Let him climb the riggin' like his ol' man climbed up you.

Now all ye young maidens, take a warnin' now you see,
Never let a sailor get an inch above yer knee.
For if ye do- he'll never let ye rest,
Until he plucks the fevvers off yer old crows-nest.

alt chorus

Singin' Home! boys , home. It's home I want to be!
Home Boys Home, with a girl on either knee:
With that little, ribboned, tarpaulin hat, and that coat of
navy blue,
Let him climb the riggin' like his daddy climbed up you!

---------------------------------------------------------------
----------------

Haul Away, Joe!

When I was a little boy, and so my mother told me,
A-way! haul a-way! we'll haul away-JOE!
That if I didn't fuck the girls
My balls would get all mouldy,
A-way! haul a-way!
Haul away on the pecker of the Bold Blackamoor!

---------------------------------------------------------------
----------------

Hog-Eye Man

Oh, the hog-eye man is the man for me,
With a prick from here to Tennessee!

Oh, the hog-eye O!
Row the boat ashore for her hog-eye,
Row the boat ashore for her hog-eye O,
She wants the hog-eye man

(seven missing couplets)

Jinny's in the garden, pickin' sand
With a fathom of dillywacker in her hand.

(possible)
Fetch me down my hickory switch,
I'm goin' to catch that lyin' bitch.

Jinny's in the garden pickin' peas
With her long long (hair, tits, etc.) hangin' down to her
knees.

Jinny's in the garden makin' duff,
Cheeks of her ass goin' Chuff! Chuff! Chuff!

Oh, her fancyman came for to court his lass,
An' he saw his Jinny a-lyin' in the grass

Oh, who's bin here since I've bin gone?
A big buck-nigger wid a hard-on on!

If I cotch him here wid me Jinny anymore,
I'll tattoo his dusters, an' he won't fuck anymore.

Oh' the hog-eye man, he's lookin' for a ride,
When he's ashore, lock yer gals inside.

22. Are there vessels where shanties are still used?
Aside from the Mystic Seaport experience, there are a few sail
training vessels where the shanty art is still practised.
Several recordings have been made, which are listed in Part II.
23. What is a FOO FOO band?
The term FOOFOO band is used to describe the informal ships
band which was often present. It's size and composition varied,
depending on the what instruments the crew possessed on any
particular voyage. The term probably originated from the French
word "fou" which means fool or foolish.
24. What instruments did the sailors play?
from early photographs and narratives, we know that the a
variety of instruments, usually cheap, found their way to sea.
The most commonly seen were:
Fiddle-often made from a cigar box
Banjo- usually on American ships
Guitar-came along with Spanish crews
Mandolin- played by Italian sailors
Penny whistle
Melodeon- the Button Accordeon-beloved of the French and German
sailors.
Concertinas- usually on British ships.
Hurdy Gurdy (vielle in French)- common among French sailors
Harmonica
Spoons
Kazoo
Drum
Bones (knick knacks)
25. OK, what about the concertina and accordeon? Aren't they
the main Seaman's instruments?
Melodeons, or button accordeons, were extremely common among
continental seamen, especially the French, Italian and Germans.
They were relatively cheap. Catalogues from the late 1800's
have 10 button, 1-row models for 1 or 2 dollars. In 1899,
70,000 German and Italian melodeons were sold in France alone,
a large number in seaport towns

As for the Concertina, I'll let John Townley answer this
one.....

"Concertinas, most certainly did go to sea, and not just on
British ships (now you 're on my turf!...) There was a
concertina aboard the C.S.S. Alabama, and a Ball Beavon Anglo
documented to have been with a sailor on the Peking around the
horn in 1896. It resides at the Mariners' Museum, a gift of
Stuart Frank, and has its cheap paper bellows beeswaxed to keep
out the spray! Although most were cheap Anglos made in
Germany, many marketed downscale by Lachenal, there was even a
cheap English featured on the cover of Scrimshaw magazine a few
years back, decorated with scrimshawed whalebone.
The late Frank Butler told of his grandfather's shop on the
way to the London Docks (he was the manufacturer of Jones
concertinas) where his living room was bedecked with rhino
horns and elephants feet and other exotica traded by sailors
for concertinas. Although quite rare in America before the War
Between The States (you can see where I'm from!) -- there was
only one tutor for the instrument in publication in 1860 -- by
1870 the Board of Trade listed no less than 19 tutors, about
equally split between English and Anglo. Apparently all those
Irish and German mercenaries the Yankees brought over
to fight their war for them brought along something worthwhile!
By 1900, Lachenal alone had sold over 100,000 instruments,
mostly cheap German Anglos. Nevertheless, melodeons were the
more popular free reed (except for harmonica) and the sailor
image of them was perpetuated by various manufacturers in
their ads (Kalbe, Imperial, Hohner) well into the early 20th
century...-jt"

26. What about dancing?
>Hornpipes - instrumental songs used to entertain, usually fast
paced, often
>danced to.

Again, not a chantey, but your basic dance tune, and only one
common rhythm along with jig, reel, polka, and yes, waltz. The
`hornpipe' as a sailor song crept into the popular imagination
probably first because of its use as a form of callisthenics to
fight scurvy in the Royal Navy (useless, but a nice thought),
and then it's travel into the popular imagination as something
associated with sailors, many of whom were Irishmen, and who
might well have been some observers' first introduction to that
form of step-dancing. Certainly the music halls, with the aid
of the Royal Navy, have come to associate a `dancing sailor'
with a hornpipe.
It's important to understand the musical form before making
generalisations; and the musical forms associated with
seafarers have been mis-characterized by far too many un-
informed and mis-informed sources, thus endangering the
cultural memory which they represent.-gb
27. Who is Stan Hugill anyway?
Stan was quite a man. Sailor, Scholar, Shantyman, Singer and
much else besides. He was a Square Rigged ship sailor, one of
the last. He served as crew on commercial sailing ships. He was
a shantyman. He performed a numerous sea music festivals, until
well into his eighties. He also collected and published one of
the definitive works on shanties. If you do any research into
shanties you won't be able to avoid him. You won't want to.
28. Are there WWW Sites that may have SHANTY material?
Andrew Draskoy at Memorial University in Newfoundland, has a
web site with the words to many shanties.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~andrew/shanty

other sites are:
http://pc-78-
120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Pointers/Miscellaneous.html
http://www.netcom.com/~neilmber/shantyfaq/part0.html
Digital Tradition http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad
Mystic Seaport http://www.mystic.org/
Songs of Sail Festival 1996 http://www.bpm.on.ca/sos.html
Caltech Rowing club
http://www.cco.caltech.edu:80/~ward/chanty/

29. What is Capstan Drill?

Nothing to do with shanties. In the Royal Navy, during the 18th
century, Midshipman often went to sea at the age of ten or
twelve. It was a belief at the time, that the at puberty, a
boy's voice changed when his testicles descended. Young
midshipmen were made to climb onto the capstan, and jump off,
to aid in the drop. Probably the origin of the song "The Black
Ball Line".
30. Are there other "nautical" expressions I should know?
NAUTICAL EXPRESSIONS used in modern English, and their origins

Cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey
-------------------------------------------------------------
This derivation dates from the days of sailing ships, and
muzzle loaded canon.
As told, not always with a straight face, the metal triangle or
tray on which cannon balls were stored, piled in a little
pyramid, was called a "monkey. It was made of brass. When it
got very cold, the metal tray would contract and the cannon
balls would roll off.

There is a second, equally probable explaination. The house
flag of the Cunard line had a golden lion, which was referred
to as "the Brass Monkey", and on cold days......

Cold enough to freeze the nuts of the iron bridge
------------------------------------------------------------
There is a similar "polite" explanations given for the
expression "cold enough to freeze the nuts of an (the) iron
bridge". So the legend goes, when they constructed the Great
Iron Bridge somewhere in the north of the UK, dissimilar metals
were used for the bolts and nuts, and when it got extremely
cold, the differential contraction loosened the nuts, and they
would fall off.

Cold as a Witch's tit
------------------------------------------
I was once told that the original, impolite version of the
expression was `as cold as milk from a witch's tit'. Another
possibility was that it was part of Cockney rhyming slang,
(i.e. butcher's hook = look, trouble and strife = wife...and my
favourite raspberry tart = fart [now you know why it's called
blowing a raspberry]).

Son Of A Gun
--------------------
An indirect way of saying "Son of a Whore", as it referred to
someone who was conceived on the gun deck of a naval ship
during the days of sail. Since most of the men were impressed
into service, they were usually not allowed shore leave for
fear that they would desert. Hence the "families" were allowed
on board the ships of the line while they were at anchor. Many
sailor's "wives" would come on board, and ply their trade on
the gun deck, between the ships guns.

Let The Cat Out Of The Bag
--------------------------
When a sailor was to be flogged, the bosun's mate was given two
yards of rope, and a yard of green blaze felt cloth. The mate
made a CAT OF NINE TAILS from the rope, and used the cloth to
cover the end for a handle, so it wouldn't get slippery when it
got bloody. The remaining felt was made into a bag, to hold the
cat. The flogging was carried out on the upper deck, where the
man would be lashed to a grating. The last thing was that the
bosun's mate took the cat out of the bag.

This "tail" was told to me by a Royal Marine on board HMS
Victory, in Portsmouth Naval dockyard. Though in his version,
the condemned sailor was given the rope and cloth, and forced
to make his own CAT.

(there is another version, concerning an old market fraud of
selling someone a "pig in a poke", which was actually a cat. I
prefer the nautical version)

Not Enough Room To Swing A Cat
-------------------------------
Floggings were carried out on deck, to give the bosun's mate
enough room to take an overhand swing)

Slush Fund
----------
When salt meat was boiled up for dinner, the fat, or SLUSH was
skimmed off by the cook, and illegally sold to the crew.
The money would then be split between the cook and the purser

Lock, Stock And Barrel
-----------------------
The parts of a gun or musket, the lock being the trigger and
firing mechanism

Devil To Pay (And No Pitch Hot)
-------------------------------
The DEVIL was the longest seam on the ship, between deck and
side. Seams were caulked or PAID with hot tar or PITCH. It was
a long and dirty job

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
-----------------------------------------
A sailor hanging over the side, between the deck and the water
would be in a hazardous position

Armstrong's Patent
-------------------------------------
In the 1800's it was common to refer to new fangled gadgets by
their patent name (i.e. flush toilet-James Crapper's Patent).
Armstrong's Patent was an ironic reference to manual labour
(i.e. Strong arms)

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31. Who contributed to this FAQ?
Thanks to:
Les Hazelton-lh
Gary Martin-gm
Peter Loughran-pl
Greg Bullough-gb
Walter Nelson-wn
D. Deangelis-dd
Mary Benson-mb
William Wagman-ww
George F. Madaus -gf
Hugh Williamson-hw
Neil Berkowitz-nb
John Townley-jt

========================================================
II: Shanty, Forebitters, and Sea Song Titles
========================================================
========================
A. Capstan or Heaving Shanties
========================
Anglesey, The
A-Roving
Billy Boy
Black Ball Line, The
Can't You Dance the Polka?
Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
Donkey Riding
Drummer and the Cook, The
Hob Y Derri Dondo
Hog's-eye Man
Hullabaloo Belay
Johnny Come Down to Hilo
Leave Her, Johnny
Liverpool Judies
Liverpool Packet, The
Lowlands
Only One More Day
Rio Grande
Roll the Woodpile Down
Rosabella
Sacramento
Sally Brown
Santiana
Shenandoah
Slav Oh
South Australia
Valparaiso Bound the Horn
We're All Bound to Go
What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?
Wild Goose Shanty, The

========================================
B. Hauling Shanties (Halyards: Long-haulers)
========================================
A Long Time Ago
Blood-Red Roses
Blow, My Bully Boys, Blow!
Blow the Man Down
Bold Riley-O
Boney was a Warrior
Cheer'ly Man
Coal Black Rose
Dead Horse
Drunken Sailor
Fire Maringo
General Taylor
Good Morning, Ladies All
Hanging Johnny
Haul Away, Joe
Haul Er Away
Heave Away, Haul Away
Hilo Somebody
John Kanaka
Lizer Lee
Poor Old Joe
Reuben Ranzo
Rise Er Up (A stamp'n go)
Roll the Cotton Down
Roll the Old Chariot
Sailor Likes His Bottle, O!, The
Seraphina
Shaker Er Johnny
Sing Fare You Well
South Australia
Stand To yer Ground
Stormalong
Tommy's Gone to Hilo
Whisky Johnny

==================================================
C. Hauling Shanties (Tacks and Sheets: Short-haulers)
===================================================
Haul Away For Rosie, Oh (foresheets)
Haul upon the Bowline
Johnny Boker
Oh, Come Roll Him Over
Roll and Go
Sailors Three
We'll Haul the Bowlin'

============================
D. Hauling Shanties (General)
============================
A La Rochelle Est Arrivee
Essequibo River
Shiny Oh

======================
E. Pumping Shanties
====================
Blow Ye Winds
Fire Down Below
Mobile Bay
Packet Ship, The
Paddy Doyle's Boots
Strike the Bell
Yaw, Yaw, Yaw

=======================
F. Stoking Shanty
=======================
The Sailor Fireman

===========================
G. Rowing or Paddling Shanty
===========================
C'est L'Aviron

====================
H. Forebitters
====================
According to the Act
Alabama, The
Banks of Newfoundland, The
Bosun's Alphabet, The
Ebenezer, The
Fire Ship, The
Flying Cloud, The
Gals Around Cape Horn, The
Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well
High Barbaree
Leave 'er, Johnny, Leave 'er
Maggie May
Paddy West
Ratcliffe Highway
Rolling Down To Old Maui
Rolling Home
Rondo for Sledging
Sailor's Way, The
Salt Beef
Saucy Arabella, The
Spanish Ladies
Stately Southerner, The
Whale, The

=====================
I. Broadside Ballads
=====================
Arethusa, The
Golden Vanity, The
Heart of Oak
Mermaid, The
Portsmouth
Rude Boreas
Rule Britannia
Tom Bowling

====================================
J. Bawdy Songs and Bilge-Water Ballads
=====================================
A Clean Song
Backsides Rule the Navy
Bell-Bottom Trousers
Blow the Man Down
Christopher Columbus
Cruising Round Yarmouth
Do Me Ama
FireShip
Handsome Cabin Boy, The
Jenny Wren Bride
Keyhole In The Door
Little Sally Racket
Lulu
North Atlantic Squadron (Cruiser Squadron)
Ratcliffe Highway
There's Nothing Else To Do
Turalai
We Set Sail
Whup Jamboree
Winnipeg Whore
You're a Liar

==============================
III: RECORDINGS:
==============================
Only sources entirely devoted to traditional sea songs are
currently listed. Individual songs which are included on albums
( i.e. 1 or 2 songs on a Kingston Trio Album). or modern
compositions (i.e. Stan Rogers or Gordon Lightfoot) have not
yet been added, partially because this list is aimed at
chanties and traditional music; partially because it would make
the list too long; and partially because I don't have
sufficient information, a plan or a format to use. I'm open to
suggestions.

KEY TO ENTRIES

(Title)
Artist: (Group or Artist's name)
(members of the Group)
K7 (Cassette), CD , or LP (record)-Label #
Country (Date)
Availability:: [see the SOURCES Retailers list]
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: this may include a sources id. indicating that the
comments come from the book, journal or catalogue indicated, or
a personal comment received from the net. If there is a ?, then
I know nothing about the item, and would appreciate additional
information and comments from the reader.

NB: An item's Availability: marked with a [A] or other code in
square brackets [ ] indicates that the item should be currently
available from the source indicated. It usually means that it
is in their current catalogue.
(Title)
Artist: (Group or Artist's name)
(members of the Group)
K7 (Cassette), CD , or LP (record)-Label #
Country (Date)
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

=A=

Deep Sea Shanties
Artist: The Almanac Singers (with Pete Seeger and Woody
Guthrie)
LP- General Records
USA
Availability:: []
Tracks: Includes "Blow the man down" sung by Guthrie
A:side
B:side
Comments: Reissued on Commodore Records (#BA 20 or 21) and by
Fontana
Mainstream as "The Soil and the Sea (#TL 5299) in 1964

Nautical-But Nice
Artist: The Anchormen
K7- Anchormen AMN 1
UK 1994
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ? (traditional sea songs by folk group) FR

Crossing the Line
Artist: The Ancient Mariners
CD K7-Protosound TNA-003
USA- 1994
Availability:: Mystic Seaport Museum Store
or Kevin Brown, 122 meadowlark Lane
Westbrook, CT USA 06498
(203) 399-7572
Tracks: 1 Haul Away Joe; 2 Southern Cross; 3 Nancy Dawson;4
John Kanakanaka; 5 Killiekrankie; 6 Power Of Whisky;7 Rum And
Rasin Hell; 8 Strike The Bell; 9 Irish Washerwoman; 10
Lowlands Away; 11 Fourteenth Street; 12 The Dead Horse; 13 A
Ca Ira; 14 Downfall Of Paris; 15 War Of Jenkins Ear; 16 Frog Of
Mine; 17 The Devils In New Jersey; 18 Riser Her Up From Down
Below;19 We Are Coming Father Abraham; 20 Fort Defiance And
The Roebuck; 21 British Grenadiers I&II; 22 One More Day; 23
Nip Of The Jack; 24 Leave Her Johnny; Leave Her;25 Eagle &
The Anchor
Comments: Mostly Fife & Drum with some Chantymen
and some ensemble--good mix, very enjoyable, neat sound effects
(creaking ships etc.) (instruments include Crane system
concertina)-gb

Turning the Tide
Artist: The Ancient Mariners Chanteymen
CD K7
USA(1993)
Availability:: Mystic Seaport Museum Store
Tracks:
A: 1 Clear the Track Let the Bulgine Run; 2 Roll the Woodpile
Down; 3 Away Rio; 4 Doodle Let Me Go; 5 Herzogin Cecile; 6 Last
Leviathan; 7 Roll Down 8 Santiano; 9 A Sailor Ain't A
Sailor(Last Shanty)
B: 1 Cape Cod Girls; 2 Donkey Riding; 3 Heave Away; 4 Essequibo
River; 5 Mingualy Boat Song; 6 Old Moke Picking On A Banjo; 7
This Dreadful Life I'm Livin; 8 Leave Her Johnny Leave Her.
Comments: Sea Chanty chants and tunes-gb
A fine collection of traditional and contemporary music.
Tight harmonies, and crisp rhythms sung "a capella".-dd

Haul Away
Artist: Armstrong's Patent
CD
Netherlands 1993
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: This is Holland's leading shanty group . 20 or so
traditionally dressed matalots, with accordeon, guitar , banjo
and other instruments. Founded in 1992, the group performes
regularly
at festivals in europe.

Captain Nipper
Artist: Armstrong's Patent
CD
Netherlands 1994
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: This is Holland's leading shanty group . 20 or so
traditionally dressed matalots, with accordeon, guitar , banjo
and other instruments. Founded in 1992, the group performes
regularly
at festivals in europe.
Contact:
Jan Huttinga
De Smederij 28
9901 LA Appingedam
The Netherlands

=B=

Across the Western Ocean
Artist: John Roberts & Tony Barrand
K7 Swallowtail ST-4
UK 1973
Availability: [E] [A]
Tracks:
A: 1.New York Girls 2.Blow the Man Down 3.The Crayfish 4.The
Black Cook 5.The Limejuice Ship 6.The Flying Dutchman
B: 1.Get Up, Jack, John Sit Down 2.The Flying Cloud 3.Heave
Away My Johnnies 4.Maggie May 5.Peter Street 6.The Seaman's
Hymn
Comments: (songs of the Transatlantic packets) FMS
Narration between the tunes by Gerret Warner, Jeff Warner and
Susan Warner. dd

Bound for the Ice
Artist: Rik Barron
CD
PEI Canada )
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Down to the Sea Again
Artist: Omar Blondahl
LP Rodeo RLP 7
Canadian (Newfoundland)
Availability::
Comments: traditional sailor and fishermen songs from
Newfoundland.

Fair Winds & Following Seas
Artist: The Boarding Party
K7- FOLKLEG-C109
USA (1987)
Availability:: [A] [E]
Tracks:
A: 1 Tommy's Gone to Hilo; 2 The Old Peacock; 3 Let the
Bullgine Run; 4 Mauling Live Oak; 5 Soran bushi; 6 Hudson River
Steamboat; 7 Come Along Down; 8 Go To It Jerry; 9 Starbuck's
Complaint
B: 1 Randy Dandy O; 2 C'est L'Aviron; 3 Coming Down the C&O; 4
Saltpetre Shanty; 5 Heise All; 6 One More Day; 7 Lowlands Away;
8 Survivor Leave
Comments: Nearly all traditional, shanties and sea songs,
extensive notes (available from pub.) it includes a traditional
Japanese Fisherman's song, and some French songs as well.-gm

Tis Our Sailing Time
Artist: The Boarding Party
Folk-Legacy Records
LP FSI-91 ; K7- FOLKLEG-C97
USA (1983)
Availability::[A] [E]
Tracks:
A: 1 Bristol Channel Jamboree; 2 Haul Awa'; 3 Otho's Song; 4
The Alabama; 5 The Cruiser
Baltimore; 6 The Hog-Eye Man; 7 Solid Fas'; 8 Seaman's Hymn &
Eternal Father
B: 1 Come Down You Roses; 2 Dead Horse; 3 Johnson Girls; 4
Truxtun's Victory;
5 Sailor's Alphabet; 6 The Shanghaied Dredger; 7 Shallow Brown;
8 Farewell Shanty
Comments: Nearly all traditional, shanties and sea songs,
extensive notes (available from pub.)-gm

Schooners
Artist: Gordon Bok
K7, CD-Timberhead CD005
UA -1992
Availability:
Tracks: Wiscasset Schooners; Harpsong Of The Deame Women;
Jericho; Spirit Song Of Gorges' Bank; The Liza Jane; Boats Of
Silver; Schooners; Crossing The Water; All My Sailors; The
Death Ship; Schooner Red Dunbar & Captain Dave's Delight;
Another Bay; Sailor's Carol; Sailor's Consolation; Karl Edstrom
And The Hesper; Song For Bowdoin; Dear Old Vessels
Comments: Mostly contemporary materials

North Wind's Clearing
Artist: Gordon Bok
CD- Folk legacy CD-1005
USA 1995
Availability:
Tracks: Mckeon's Coming; Western Boat; Mrs. Macdonald's Lament;
Liverpool Handy; Mr. Eneos; Saben; The Woodfitter; Cape Ann;
Frankie On The Sheepscot; Mister; I Don't Mind; Clear Away In
The Morning; Threeboot Philbrick's Lament; Gulls In The
Morning; Bay Of Fundy; One Fat Boat; Peter Kagan And The Wind
Comments: Original compositions by Mr Bok. nautical themes

Songs of the Yankee Whalers
Artist: Bill Bonyon & Chorus
American Heritage Heirloom records AHLP
USA (1960's)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ? FFA

Old Time Bawdy Sea Chanteys V.5
Artist: Oscar Brand
LP- Audio Fidelity AFLP-1884
Canadian
Availability::
Tracks:
A : Winnipeg Whore, Good Ship Venus, We Set Sail, New York
Girls, Bell-Bottom Trousers, Clean song, Johnny Come Down to
Hilo,
B: Turalia, Backside Rules the Navy, Blow the Man Down, Jenny
Wren Bride, Keyhole In The Door, Frigging in the Rigging, Lulu,
Comments: part of Oscars 6 Vol. set of Bawdy songs. This seems
to be the source for the Bawdy songs section of Terry Kensey's
book.

Rollicking Sea Chanteys
Artist: Oscar Brand
LP- Audio fidelity ASLP-1966
Canadian
Availability::
Tracks:
A: Hullabaloobalay, Johnny Come Down to Hilo, Come all Ye young
sailors, Johnny Booker, Blow Ye Winds In the Morning, A Yankee
Ship, Paul Jones
B: High Barbary, Rio Grandee, Mermaid, Haul Away Joe, Johnson's
Ale, William Kidd, Whisky Johnny
Comments: the clean versions of the preceding LP

Every Inch A Sailor
Artist: Oscar Brand
LP Elektra Records ELK-169, EKS-7169
Canadian (1960)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: may be the same as the previous item- FMS

Roll boys roll
Artist: Breitling
CD
Germany
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Sea Shanties
Artist: Tarry Breeks
K7 RCA 182
USA
Availability:: [L]
Tracks:
Comments: "Voice , banjo, squeeze box, flute, piccolo, and
recorder. Includes Away Rio, Bonnie Ship the Diamond, Maui and
more" -[L]

Those are the Breeks
Artist: Tarry Breeks
K7 RCA 183
USA
Availability:: [L]
Tracks:
Comments: ... "Voice , banjo, squeeze box, flute, piccolo, 12
String guitar and Mandolin. Includes Fiddler's Green, Whale of
a tale, pay me my money down and more " [L].

Clear the Decks
Artist: The Bristol Shantymen
LP Supernova, Bristol SN 2
UK (1987 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: ?

Down To The Sea In Ships
Artist: Vincent P Brophy,
LP Restless RRP014
Australian 1986
Availability:: Australian Distributed by Sandstock Music PO
Box 557 Charlestown N.S.W. 2290
Tracks:
A: .1 Down, down to the ocean blue; 2 Pig and whistle roll; 3
Ballad of the
Karingal; 4 Baywatchers of Twofold Bay; 5 James Craig/Sailor's
Hornpipe
B:. 1 Murry Paddle boat; 2 Hi, Hi the little boat rides; 3 Tug
Boats; 4 Murry River Queen; 5 Down to the sea in boats.
Comments:

The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelson and other true stories
Artist: Jerry Bryant
K7 & CD
Availability: Mystic Seaport Museum Store
Tracks:
Side A:1.Jimmy's Mobile Phone 2.The Dreadnought Mutiny 3.The
Campanero 4.Thomas Bird 5.The Aylesbury Girl 6.Huckleberry
Hunting 7.Crossing the Line
Side B: 1.The Ballad of Harbo and Samuelson 2.Selma 3.Awkward
as a New Chum
4.Click Go the Shears 5.The Mermaid Song 6.Canadee-i-o
Comments: A mix of traditional and original songs. The majority
of the songs
composed by Jerry on this collection are based on historical
events. Jerry is
meticulous researcher with a strong sense of humour. A very
enjoyable collection
with the distinction of containing the "definitive" version of
"Harbo and
Samuelson" (by the author). dd

=C=

Chants de Marins Traditionnels
Artist: Cabestan
Chasse Maree, SCM 001,002,003,004
005,006,007, SCM014{CD} SCM 016{CD}
France
Availability:: [P, LCM]
Tracks:
Comments:
Cabestan seem to be the major Sea Chanty group in France.
Cabestan means Capstan.
Their line up consists of Guitar, Melodeon , violin etc.
If you are in to this music (i.e. non-English shanty material),
Le Chasse-Maree also publish two beautiful chanty songbooks
(see the book list)
Cabestan come highly recommended by reviewers in [FR]

Gwerz Penmarc'h
Chants de Marins de Bretagne
Artist: Cabestan
CD K7 Le Chasse-Maree/ ArMen
France
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: Good album of Breton sea songs, with instrumental
accompaniment

Fortunes De Mer
Chants de Marins
Artist: Cabestan
CD Le Chasse-Maree/ ArMen SCM 028
France
Availability:: [LCM]
Tracks:
Comments: " Cabestan's fifth album is fixed firmly as their
previous ones, sea songs and shanties in Breton, French and
English....FR #126

Sing of the Sea
Artist: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
LP CBS 63393
Ireland (1968 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
Side 1: Congo River; Santy Anno; Farewell To Carlingford; Paddy
West; Johnny's Gone To Hilo ;The Lowlands Low
Side 2: The Good Ship Calibar ; Love Is Kind; Blood Red Roses;
Threescore And Ten; Heave Away My Johnny
Comments:. The group is well known, probably the best known
Irish folk group ever. The performance would be first rate, but
definitely geared to a commercial market. -HW

Foc'sle Songs and Chanties
Artist: Paul Clayton(& the Foc'sle Singers)
K7 Folkways 2429
USA (1959)
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
A: 1 Ratcliffe Highway; 2 Rio Grande; 3 Haul on the Bowline; 3
Maggie May; 4 Haul Away Joe; 5 Do My Johnny Booker; 6 Roll the
Cotton Down; 7 Haul, Boys, Haul; 8 Leave Her Johnny; 9 Paddy
Lay Back
B: 1 Fire Down Below ; 2 A Hundred Years Ago; 3 Santy Anno; 4
Captain Nipper; 5 Hangin' Johnny; 6 Banks of Sacramento; 7
Won't You Go My Way; 8 Goodbye Fare Thee Well; 9 All Bound to
Go
Comments: Song order from Folkways FA 2429 (LP)

Whaling and Sailing Songs From the Days of Moby Dick-LP
Whaling and Sailing Songs of the 19th Century-CD
Artist: Paul Clayton
LP-Tradition 1005
CD- Legacy CD 389
USA
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 The Maid of Amsterdam; 2 Old Stormalong; 3 The Girls
Around Cape Horn; 4 Paddy Doyle's Boots; 5 Spanish Ladies; 6
Sally Brown; 7 The Dying Sailor To His Shipmates; 8 Ranzo; 9
The Mermaid; 10 Johnny's Gone To Hilo
B: 1 Saturday Night At Sea; 2 Shenandoah; 3 Admiral Benbow; 4
Round the Corner; 5 The Greenland
Whale Fisheries; 6 Go Down You Blood Red Roses; 7 The Turkish
Revalee; 8 Boney Was a Warrior 9 Lady Franklin's Lament; Santa
Ana (CD)
Comments: : A classic collection of classic shanties. Though,
IMHO, sung much faster than would be practical for working on
shipboard. dd.

As We Were a-Sailing
Artist: Critics Group
Singers: Ewan MacColl, Aldwyn Cooper, John Faulkener, Brian
Pearson, Dick Snell, Terry Yarnell.
Accompanied by: John Faulkener (mandolin, fiddle), Sandra Kerr
(guitar, dulcimer, whistle), Peggy Seeger (guitar, concertina,
banjo)
LP Argo ZDA 137
UK (1970 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A: Slave Ho. Cooper; Billy Riley. Faulkener; Sir Francis Drake.
Faulkener & Yarnell (PS & SK: g); Farewell to Tarwathie.
MacColl (PS: c); The New York Trader. Faulkener (SK: d);
Sailing over the Dogger Bank. Cooper (PS: c); The Bold Pirate.
Snell; The Alabama. Yarnell; So Handy. Pearson; The Flying
Cloud. MacColl;
B: -;The North Sea Holes. MacColl (PS & SK: g, JF: m);Loss of
the Ramilies. Pearson; As We Were A-Sailing. Faulkener; The
Press Gang. Yarnell (PS: c, SK: w); The Dockyard Gate. MacColl
(The sleeve says it's Snell, but I disagree!); Bottle-O.
Yarnell (above - PS:b, JF: f); Long Time Ago.
Faulkener; Nancy of Yarmouth. MacColl (PS:c); John Dameray.
Pearson; Bold Benjamin. Yarnell;
Comments: Think of a superlative and apply it to this record,
any will do - it's impossible to overstate its quality.-pm

Ye Mariners All.
Artist: The Critics Group
Singers: Ewan MacColl, Aldwyn Cooper, John Faulkener, Brian
Pearson, Dick Snell, Terry Yarnell, Phil Colclough
Accompanied by: John Faulkener (mandolin, fiddle), Sandra Kerr
(guitar, dulcimer, whistle), Peggy Seeger (guitar, concertina,
banjo), Dick Snell (whistle).
LP Argo ZDA 138
UK (1971 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A: Ja, Ja, Ja. Snell; The Indian Lass. Pearson. (DS: w, PS: c,
SK: g, JF: f); The Cruel Ship's Captain. MacColl; Paddy Get
Back. Cooper; Jack the Jolly Tar. MacColl. (PS: c); The Ship in
Distress. Yarnell.; Cheer'ly Man. MacColl; The Spanish Fight.
Pearson. (PS:d, SK: w, JF: f); Andrew Rose. Yarnell. (JF: f);
Bangidero. Faulkener;
B: The Mermaid. MacColl; Goodbye Fare You Well. Snell. (PS:c,
JF: f, SK: w); The Bold Princess Royal. Faulkener; Clear the
Track. MacColl; Captain Ward and the Rainbow. MacColl. (JF: f);
The Sea Martyrs. Yarnell, Faulkener, Snell; Cruising Round
Yarmouth. Colclough; Ye Mariners All. Faulkener; Galloping
Randy Dandy O. MacColl; Leave Her Johnny. MacColl;
Comments: At last The Critics get it right! Wow;
(One of my most treasured memories of evenings spent in folk
clubs was listening to Ewan MacColl and his three sons sing
shanties. It was incredible. I can't remember all they sang but
I know we were lucky enough to hear John Dameray and Cheer'ly
Man. The roof almost came off the place. No-one joined in on
the refrains, it would have been pointless, and we were all too
awed anyway.);-pm

=D=

Djiboudjep en Concert
Artist: Djiboudjep
CD CD833 (Escalibur, Diffusion Breizh)
France (Brittany)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ???

Waterside
Artist: Dramtreo:
K7 Southern Branch Music SBM 8701C
USA (1987)
Availability:: [M]
Tracks:
A: 1 Square Rigged Ship; 2 The Diamond; 3 The Flowers Of
Bermuda; 4 Mingulay Boat Song; 5 The Constitution And The
Guerrierre
B: 1 One Of Many; 2 The Boys That Broke The Ground; 3 Rise Up
Jock; 4 At The End Of A Pointed Gun; 5 White Collar Holler; 6
Stay Awhile
Comments: Not really a sea songs collection, but sufficient
nautical content to qualify. Style is very "Kingston Trio". I
believe this is an east coast, possibly Maryland group, with a
couple of K7's out Four men, two guitar, one banjo, and an
electric base.

Driftwood at Sea, Sea Chanties by Jimmy Driftwood.
Artist: Jimmy Driftwood -
LP-RCA LSP 2443
Availability:: I'm sure it's out of print.
Tracks:
A:side Driftwood at Sea, Davy Jones, Shanghaied, The Land of
the Amazon, The Diver Boy ,In a Cotton Shirt and a Pair of
Dungarees
B:side Sailing Away on the Ocean, What Could I Do, Row Bullies
Row, Sailor, Sailor, Marry Me, The Ship That Never Returned,
Santy Anny-O
Comments:

=E=

Sea Shanties and Logger's Songs
Artist: Sam Eskin
K7 LP (10") Folkways 2019
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ? FMS

KRONAN: Music From the Time of the Royal Swedish Flagship
Artist: Ensemble Mare Balticum
CD Kontrapunkt 32066
Denmark (1991)( )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: This is one for the collectors. The Kronan was a 17th
century warship which sunk in the Baltic. When it was recently
discovered, a number of musical instruments were found on
board. This group re-enacts the period, playing period music,
on period instruments . and in period costume. One for the
Baroque fanciers.

=F=

Songs of the Fishing
Artist: Cilla Fisher
LP Kettle Records
1984
Availability:: CM Distribution 4 High St Starbeck Harrogate N
Yorkshire
Tracks:
A: . 1 Fisherman's Wife; 2 Whaur will we gang; 3 Tatties and
herrin'; 4 Eyemouth Disaster; 5 Shetland Tunes; 6 Hushaba Ma
Bairnie; 7 The Prosperity/Sailor's Hornpipe
B:. 1 The boatie rows; 2 In the Isle of May; 3 Dreg Song/The
keel row; 4 Fisher Row; 5 Dance Tae Yer Daddie(the Fisherman's
Wife/Finnan Haddies); 6 Caller Herrin'; 7 The Final Trawl.
Comments:

Songs of the Sea and Shore
Artist: Stuart Frank,
K7 Folkways 5256
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

Sea Chanties and Forecastle Songs:
at Mystic Seaport
Artist: Stuart Frank, Stuart Gillespie, & Ellen Cohn
K7 Folkways 37300
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

=G=

Folk Songs of America
Artist: R.W. Gordon
LP Lib of Congress-AFS L68
USA (1978 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: ? field recordings

Born of Another Time:
Songs of the Sailors, Songs of the Sea
Artist: Tom Goux & Jacek Sulanowski
K7 Folkways 37350
USA 1982
Availability:: [F]
Tracks: Early In The Morning; Rosie; Believe Me , Dearest
Susan; Hearts Of Gold; Can Of Grog; Ebenezer; Gradh Geal Mo
Chridh ; The Girls Around Cape Horn
Married To A Mermaid; The Mary L. Mackay; High Barbaree; Born
Of Another Time; Chinee Bumboatman; Ol' Zeb
Comments: recorded as part of the Sea Education Association,
Woods Hole MA

=H=
Blow Boys Blow
Artist: R.F.P. Halliday & Rasmussen
LP Folk Tracks FSC 30 205
(1975 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: ?

Colonial and Revolutionary War
Sea Songs and Shanties
Artist: Cliff Halsam & John Millar
K7 Folkways 5275
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
A: 1 Boston Harbour, 2 Sam's Gone Away, 3 Johnny Todd, 4
Pleasant & Delightful, 5 My Son John, 6 Polly On the Shore, 7
Anti-Gallican Privateer, 8 Fathom the Bowl,9 The Pressgang, 10
All Things Were Quite Silent
B: 1 Here Comes Captain John Paul Jones,2 Fare Thee Well 3 My
Dearest Nancy,4 Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy,5 Pretty Nancy of
Yarmouth,6 Yankee Privateer,7 An American Frigate,8 Stately
American, 8 Yankee Man of War,9 Sir Peter Parker
Comments: Extensive notes, Song order from Folkways FH 5275
(LP). "...(Cliff) is one of the finest British traditional
singers to ever sing in America."[quote from the enclosed
notes]
I'd have to agree. dd

Deepwater Shanties
Artist: Holdstock & MacLeod:
K7,
Availability:: ? Mystic Seaport Store
Tracks:
A: 1 Highland Laddie; 2 The Blackball Line; 3 The Rosabella; 4
Reuben Ranzo; 5 Wild Goose Shanty; 6 Ranzo Ray; 7 Mingulay Boat
Song; 8 Shallow Brown
B: 1 Across the Western Ocean; 2 One More Day; 3 Mars
Forevermore; 4 Lowlands; 5 The Hogeye Man; 6 Away to Hilo; 7
The Frisco Ship; 8 Seaman's Hymn
Comments: Two of the best shanteymen I have ever had the
pleasure to hear !! dd

Sailing Days
Artist: Stan Hugill (with Stormalong John)
K7-Veteran Tapes VT127
UK (1993)
Availability:: [H]
Tracks:
A: A Rollin' Down the River; Way Down in Dixie; Whaling Johnny;
Round the Bay of Mexico; Shenandoah; Radcliffe Highway; We're
All Bound to Go.
B: The Fireship; The Indian Lass; The Leaky Ship; Ratcliffe
highway; Bosun's Alphabet; Sacramento
Comments: ( very traditional)
Stan Hugill was one of the last original
sailors who performed sea shanties.
(See article in FAQ)
from Veteran Tapes, 44 Old St, Haughley
Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 3NX, UK

Stan Hugill in Concert at Mystic Seaport
Artist: Stan Hugill
K7 - Mystic Seaport-1993
USA 1993
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Vire au Guindeau; 2 A Sailor Stood; 3 Eighty Years
Old and Somewhat; 4 Rum Yarns; 5 Santiano; 6 South
Australia; 7 Blow the Man Down; 8 Black ball Line
B: 1 Shanghaiing; 2 Larry Marr; 3 Lowlands; 4 John Kanaca;
5 The Arabella; 6 Leave Her Johnny.
Comments: Shanties and stories performed on June 11, 1988 at
the 9th Annual
Sea Music Festival (virtually uncut or rearranged). Includes
Stan's commentary
and introductions to the songs. dd

Shantyman
Artist: Stan Hugill
with Stormalong john
Spinnaker Records SS1, K7 CSS!
UK (1988)
Availability::
Comments???

Ratcliffe Highway
Artist: Stan Hugill
Folktracks FSA 035
UK
Availability::
Comments???

Aboard the Cutty Sark
Artist: Stan Hugill
LP (2 disks) Greenwich Village GVRX 207
UK (1979)
Availability::
Comments???

Stan Reminisces
Artist: Stan Hugill
Greenwich Village GVR 217
UK (1979)
Availability::
Comments???

A Salty Fore-Topman
Artist: Stan Hugill
CopCon Sh 001
UK (1989)
Availability::
Comments???

Grand Canal Ballads
Artist: William Hullfish and the Golden Eagle String Band
K7 LP Folkways FTS 32318
US(1981 )
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
A:side Oh! Dat Low Bridge; Paddy on the Canal; dark-eyed
Canaller; I'm Afloat on the Erie Canal; Ballad of the Erie
Canal; Boating on a Bull-Head; Meeting on the Waters
B:side The Er-i-e ; A Trip on the Erie Canal; That Long Canal;
Canawler; The Raging Canal; The Aged Pilot Man; Low Bridge
Comments: Interesting collection of US canal materials

=I=

Look to the sea
Artist: Irish Descendants
D'Arcy Broderick; Con O'Brien; Ronnie Power; Larry Martin
CD Duckworth CD 94017
Canada 1993
Availability:
Tracks: Rollin' Of The Sea; Useta Love Her; Rocky Road To
Dublin; Days Of Yore; Dancin' Dick/ Lough Geil/ Fisherman's
Widow; Peter Street; Go To Sea No More; Last Of The Great
Whales; Thousand Tall Ships/ The Scholar/ Miss McCloud's Reel;
Oh No Not I ; Lark In The Morning; Fisherman's Song
Comments: The Irish descendants are one of the best of the
Newfoundland bands currently performing a mix of traditional
and original material. Not Chanty material, but a good listen
nonetheless

Sailing Whaling & Fishing Songs
(Down to the Sea In Ships)???
Artist: Burl Ives
MCA Coral PCO 5573
USA (1956)
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor; 2 Santa Anna; 3 The Eddy
Stone Light; 4 Haul Away Joe; 5 You New York Gals; 6 The
Sailor's Grave; 7 Leave Her Johnny Leave Her; 8 Away Rio; 9 Ben
Backstay
B: 1 Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket; 2 Blow Ye Winds; 3 Go
Down You Red Roses; 4 Hullabaloo Belay; 5 Stormalong; 6 The
Drunken Sailor; 7 Highland Laddie; 8 The Golden vanity; 9
Rolling Home
Comments: A very commercial production, backed by the Ralph
Hunter Singers. Reminds me of Sing Along with Mitch (Miller).
There is a book as well.

Album IV: Songs of the Sea
Artist: Burl Ives
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films EBF
USA (195?)
Availability::
Tracks:
Golden Vanity; High Barbaree; Maid of Amsterdam; Henry Martin;
Hullabaloo Belay; Blow the Man Down; Blow Ye Winds; Away Rio;
The Whale; Sacramento; Crocodile Song; Early In the Morning;
Boston Come All Ye; Haul Away Joe; Venezuela, Shanendoah; Erie
Canal; Eddystone Light
Comments:

=J=

A Drop of Benbow's Blood
Artist: Jenkins Ear
K7 FGC 269
UK (1994)
Comments : " Unremarkable shanty singing"
œ5, contact Rob McGhee 0481 64 239" FR 114

Ditty Bag
Artist: H. Jones
K7 (Cassette), CD , or LP (record)-Label #
UK
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

=K=

Strike the Bell
Artist: Tom and Chris Kastle
CD- Sextant #5991
USA 1995
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: Duo from Chicago with a collection of sea songs-SO

Earthways Waterways
Artist: Tom and Chris Kastle
CD- Sextant #39910
USA 1993
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: Many sea songs, such as "Songs For the Whales"' sung
and played on guitar and concertina

Fair Stood the Wind
Artist: Goeff Kaufman)
K7
USA 199?
Availability:
Tracks: Sir Patrick Spens; Leave Her Johnny
A:side
B:side
Comments: A varied collection of songs of the sea, old and new,
ranging from the classic ballad of "Sir Patrick Spens' to a
rousing rendition of "Leave Her, Johnny" sung by one of the
leading Shantymen of the Mystic Seaport Museum.

Liverpool Packet
Artist: Stan Kelly
LP Topic 27
UK 1960 ( )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: see Topic Sampler #7

Sailors, Ships and Chanteys
Artist: Louis Killen
& the Out of Shape Chanteymen
CD, K7 Knock-Out! KO-03,
USA (1995)
Availability :
Tracks:
A: 1.Suzy Anna 2.Liverpool Judies 3.Rounding the Horn 4.Short
Jacket
and White Trousers 5.Handsome Cabin Boy 6.Haul Away for Rosie
7.Paddy West John Rise Her Up 8.The Flying Cloud
B: 1.Cruising 'Round Yarmouth 2.Shoals of Herring 3.Henry
Martin
4.The Wild Goose Nation 5.Lord Franklin 6.Haul On the Bowline
7.The
Trim-Rigged Doxy 8.The Dreadnaught 9.Hilo, Johnny Brown
10.David
Lowston 11.Leaving of Liverpool
Comments: An excellent collection ! I like to think that this
is how
the songs sounded when they were first sung. dd

Sea Chanteys
Artist: Lou Killen
CD ESP 1085-2
UK-1973 (Recorded 1968)
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
1 Row Billy Row, 2 Good ale, 3 Pleasant and Delightful, 4 Lord
Franklin, 5 Sheffield Apprentice, 6 Shoals of Herring, 7 Bold
Jack Donehue, 8 Story, 9 Week Before Easter, 10 The Black
Smith, 11 The Blind Cow Caught Fire,
Comments: Traditional Sea Chanteys by a well-known contemporary
singer-concertina player

Sea Songs
Artist: Lou Killen & others
K7 folkways 37311
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ??? This might be Vol. 1 of the Newport festival
recordings
see Vol. 2 in the VARIOUS ARTISTS section

Farewell Nancy
Artist: Lou Killen, Dave Swarbrick, Ian Campbell
LP Topic 12T 110
UK (1956)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: partially reissued as "Blow the Man Down"

=L=

Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
Artist: John Langstaff, Dir.
CD Revel 1084
USA-1992
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
A: .1 The Padstow May Song; 2 To Portsmouth; 3 The Alle-Allee-
O/Two in a boat; 4 A Roving; 5 Trad Sword Dance Tunes/Bobby
Shaftoe; 6 The Mermaid: 7 Our Gallant Ship; 8 Cape Cod Girls;
9 Pay Me My Money Down; 10 Boney; 11 The Seamen's Hymn; 12 One
thought ever at the fore/ The Divine Ship; 13 Blow Ye winds, in
the Morning; 14 I'se the B'y that builds the boat; 15 Away Rio;
16 Mingulay; 17 New Oysters; 18 All things quite and silent; 19
Pleasant and delightful; 20 The Golden Vanity; 21 Sailing
home/Leave her, Johnny
Comments: Traditional sea-songs, dances and chanteys: A Revels
Celebration of the sea
Revels Inc. PO Box 502 Cambridge MA 02139
Chanteys, songs etc. performed by a mixed choir Includes:
David Jones; Peter Marston; Doug Quimby; Lynn Noel; Douglas
Kennedy

A Garland for Sam
Artist: Sam Larner
LP Topic 12T244 Mono
1974
Availability::
Tracks:
A: . 1. Alphabet Song; 2. Merry Month of May; Napoleon's Dream;
London
Streamer; Bonny Bunch of Roses; Barbara Allen; The Smacksman;
The Lofty Tall
Ship.
B:. Racking the Hay; Will Watch; The outlandish Knight;
Haisboro Light Song;
Old Bo Ridley-o; The Bold Princess Royal; In Scarboro' Town
Songs and Ballads of Sam Larner of Winterton

Now is the Time For Fishing
Artist: Sam Larner
K7 Folkways 3507
UK
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

Surfacing
Artist: Tom Lewis
CD ASM101D
Canada-1987
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
1 A Sailor Ain't a Sailor, 2 Recall, 3 Inside Every Sailor
(deception, 4 Sailorman's Port in A Storm, 5 Watches, 6 The
Hunter Home From the Hill, & Landlocked Sailor, 8 Marching
Inland (Legend), 9 Away, 10 Bread and Butter to Me, 11 Diesel
and Shale, 12 Cyril Said it All Before, 13 Sailor's Prayer
Comments: Sea Songs written by performer

Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer
Artist: Tom Lewis
and the Friends of fiddler's Green
CD- Self Propelled Music-ASM104D
Canada 1995
Availability:
Tracks: 150 Days Out From Vancouver; Sirensong; New York Girls;
The Widowmaker; Congo River; African Trade; Somewhere Safe To
Dea; The Busker; Mother Carey; All At Sea; Bully In The Alley;
Swallow The Anchor; Message In The Bottle; Tinker Tailor;
Shiver Me Timber
Comments: A mix of traditional and modern materials, with a
lively and spirited performance

Sea-Dog, See-Dog
Artist: Tom Lewis
CD FF 70547 (Flying Fish)
Availability:: [E]
Comments: Original and contemporary songs about sailors
and a story about a shore leave incident in the navy -gm

Making Waves
Artist: Lewis, Pint, & Dale
CD ASM103D
Availability::
Comments: A few traditional cuts, mostly contemporary,
two Kipling/Bellamy settings, some electric backup, quite
varied-gm

Lime Bay Mutiny ???
Artist: Lime Bay Mutiny
K7
Canadian
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: sea songs and chanteys, some traditional and
some contemporary by various West coast singers (live
recording)

A Hundred Years Ago
Artist: A.L.Lloyd and Chorus
LP Topic 99
UK (1956 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Leviathan
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy
LP Topic 12T174
UK (1967)
Availability::
Tracks:
A: The Balena; The Coast Of Peru; Greenland Bound; The Weary
Whaling Ground; The Cruel Ship's Captain; Off To Sea Once More;
The Twenty-Third Of March
B: The Bonnie Ship The Diamond; Talcahuano Girls; Farewell To
Tarwathie; Rolling Down To Old Maui; The Greenland Whale
Fisheries; Paddy And The Whale ; The Whaleman's Lament; The
Eclipse
Comments: British Whaling songs by some of Britain's finest -
FMS

Haul on the Bowline,
Artist: A.L. Lloyd , Ewan MacColl
LP, K7 Stinson Records SLP 80
UK
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: ?-FMS,

Coast of Peru
Artist: A.L.Lloyd, Ewan MacColl
LP Topic 100
UK (1956 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Thar She Blows
or Whaling Ballads
Artist: Lloyd , McColl
LP
Riverside RLP12-635 (195?)
Washington WLP724 (1974)
(195?)
Availability: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Off to Sea Once More Vol. 2
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl
LP, K7 Stinson Records SLP 81, CA 81
UK
Availability::[A]
Tracks:
A: 1 Blood Red Roses; 2 The Greenland Whale Fisheries; 3 Sally
Racket; 4 Off to Sea Once More; 5 The Cruel Ship's Captain; 6
Van Dieman's Land; 7 The Greenland Whale Fishery
B: 1 Reuben Ranzo; 2 Stormalong; 3 Paddy Doyle; 4 Johnny Todd;
5 Lord Franklin; 6 Handsome Cabin Boy; 7 The Dreadnought; 8
Stormalong; 9 Johnny Todd
Comment: A second volume of real salt songs by these two
outstanding
British folksingers. And other Focïsle Songs and shanties
with concertina accompaniment-FSB

Whaler out of New Bedford
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
K7 Folkways 3850
USA (1962)
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ?

Blow Boys Blow
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
LP-Traditional 1026
CD- Traditional TCD 1024
UK (1966) (1996 reissue)
Availability::
Tracks: Row Bullies Row; Paddy Doyle; Wild Goose Shanty; While
Cruising Around Yarmouth; Old Billy Riley; Handsome Cabin Boy;
South Australia; Blow Boys Blow; Whup Jamboree; Banks Of
Newfoundland; Whisky Johnny; Do Me Ama; Jack Tar; Paddy West;
Haul On The Bowline; A Hundred Years Ag0
Comments: Finally, a reissue of one of the best traditional
recordings of sea shanties by two of Britain's legendary folk
performers.

Sea Shanties
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Roy Harris et al.
Topic 12TS234
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ?

The Valiant Sailor
Artist: A.L. Lloyd, Frankie Armstrong et al.
Topic 12TS232
UK
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ? British Navy songs from Nelson's time

TRL3 - The Singing Sailor.
T7 - Row Bullies Row (8" LP)
T8 - The Blackball Line (8" LP)
TOP98 - Blow the Man Down - 1960
TOP99 - A Hundred Years Ago -1956
TOP100 - The Coast of Peru - 1956
Artist: A.L. Lloyd and Ewan McColl
LPs
UK ( )
Availability: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: This is a list of known EP's and other records by
two of the greatest performers of shanty material on record.

CD RUM
Artist: Long John Silver
CD
France
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Pierhead Jump
Artist: David LoVine
CD Haul Away
USA 1995
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: Original and traditional songs of the sea from
"Shantyman" with the Mortal Coilers- SO
=M=

Ewan MacColl
(see also, entries under A.L. Lloyd and Critics Group)

A Sailor's Garland
Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd, Alf Edwards, Dave Swarbrick
LP Prestige XTRA 5013
UK (1966)
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 The sailor's Alphabet; 2 Bold Riley; 3 Haul Away for
Rosie; 4 Nancy Of Yarmouth; 5 Tom's Gone to Hilo; Sally Brown;
7 The Dockyard Gate; 8 Hilo Somebody; 9 The Dolphin
B: 1 Trim-Rig Ducksie; 2 Little Sally Racket; Gal With the Blue
Dress On; 4 The Leaving of Liverpool; 5 Bring Em Down; 6 Hilo
Johnny Brown; 7 Short Jacket And White Trousers; 8 The
Blackball Line; 9 General Tailor
Comments:

Singing the Fishing
Artist: Ewan MacColl ,Charles Parker
with A. L. Lloyd; Eliz Stewart; Jane Stewart;
Stan Larner; Ian Campbell; Ronnie Balls; Peggy Seeger;
LP Argo/Decca RG 502
UK 1967
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments A: BBC Radio Ballad: A Tribute to the fishing
communities of East Anglia and the Mory Firth

Blow The Man Down
Artist: Ewan MacColl
LP Topic 98
UK (1960 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: Hard to find

The Capstan Bar
Artist: Jim Mageen
LP Dingles DIN 303
(1978 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: ?

Homeward Bound
Artist: Ed McCurdy
LP Rodeo RBS 1181
Canadian (1960's)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: A vintage album by one of the original folk music
revival performers of the 1950's.

Won't You Help Me Raise `Em
Artist: Menhaden Chanteymen
CD global Village C220
USA (1990)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: "A Menhaden is a fish (and a good Scrabble word)
and these are Afro-American sea songs. Much closer to blues
than Cyril Tawney but still an accompaniment to teamwork. A
fascinating and little known tradition." FR
Authentic net-hauling songs from an African-American fishery
sung by Chanteymen from Beaufort, North Carolina- SO

Songs of the Sea
Artist: Alan Mills
K7 LP Folkways 2312
Canadian
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ?FMS

Songs of the Maritimes:
Lumberman Songs and Songs of the Sea
Artist: Alan Mills
K7 Folkways 8744
Canadian
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

We'll Rant and We'll Roar: Sea Song of Newfoundland
Artist: Alan Mills
K7 LP Folkways 8771
Canadian
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: Traditional folk performer of the 50's and early
60's. An early Raffi

Soundings For the Whale
Artist: The Morgans
K7 Morgan
USA 1985
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: Connecticut group sings 11 traditional and original
songs about whales and whaling, including "The Diamond" and
"Farewell to Tarwathie"-SO

Ceili- on the High Ground
Artist: The Morgans
K7 Morgan Productions MP005
USA(1990 )
Availability:: [M]
Tracks:
A: side Bonnie Highland Laddie; Brennan On The Moor; The Valley
Of Slievenanmon; The Flying Dutchman/ Beeswing; The Bold Fenian
Men; Morrissey's Jig/ Lark In The Morning
B: side The Life Of A Country Boy; The Lowlands Of Holland; The
Night The Ould Dun Cow Caught Fire; Bay Of Fundy / Ships Are
Dailing; The Golden Vanity; The Four Green Fields; The Lord Of
The Dance
Comments: Seven man Connecticut based group. The have five or
six K7's out. Clancey brothers style.

Them Liverpool Judies
Artist: Craig Morton
Philo 1002
Availability::
Comments: ?

Songs of the Sea
Artist: Mundy's Bay Grog League
CD MBGL-001
Canada 1996
Availability: []
Tracks: 1. Strike The Bell Traditional; 2. The Alabama
Traditional; 3. Greenland Whale Fisheries Traditional; 4. I'm
Marching Inland Tom Lewis; 5. Bullgine Run Traditional; 6.
Marco Polo Jim Stewart; 7. Santy Anno Traditional; 8. All For
Me Grog Traditional; 9. Boston Harbour Traditional; 10. Paddy
Lay Back Traditional; 11. Roll The Old Chariot Traditional; 12.
My Donald Owen Hand / Ode To Big Blue Gordon Lightfoot; 13. The
Bonnie Ship The Diamond Traditional; 14. Essiquibo River
Traditional;15. The Rosabella Traditional;16. Across The Line
Traditional
Comments: "The Mundy's Bay Grog League began as a kitchen
sing-around amongst the friends of Mundy's Bay Folk Society
near Midland, Ontario in 1993. The "League" now boasts a crew
of six consisting of Neil Evans, Jim Hanmore, Sharon Tippin,
Keith Tippin, Deborah Sibbald and Dave Ward.

Living so close to the shores of Georgian Bay, the "sixth"
great lake,
it is only natural that the theme of the League would be
that of
sailing and life on the sea. Their repertoire is comprised
of a
cappella and accompanied shanties of all kinds as well as
some more
well known songs of the sea.

The Mundy's Bay Grog League had the pleasure of being asked
to sing
chorus on "Pride of Muskoka" on Tamarack's latest album
"Leaving
Inverarden". The "Groggers" have recently released their
first album
of songs of the sea."

Fertile Ground
Artist: Lee Murdock
CD K7 DEP 009
???
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

Folk Songs of the Great Lakes
Artist: Lee Murdock
K7 DEP 010
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: Includes book and cassette

Cold Winds
Artist: Lee Murdock
CD K7 DEP 011
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

Safe in the Harbour
Artist: Lee Murdock
CD K7 DEP013
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

Unmooring
Artist: Mystic Seaport's Forebitter
Craig Edwards, Geoff Kaufman, David Littlefield, and Rick
Spencer.
K7- Mystic Seaport 1001 + CD
Availability: [M]
Tracks: [K7]-
A:1.Unmooring 2.Fire Maringo 3.Larry Marr 4.Lynchburg Town;
5.Jamestown Homeward Bound 6.Derby Ram 7.Woodchopper's
Hornpipe/ Maple Sugar Rag 8.Luce Brothers 9.Weldon
B:1.Le Captaine De St. Malo 2.Pull Down Below 3.Heidi Marie
4.Poor Little Fisherman's Girl 5.Whalebone Cutter 6.Wings of a
Goney 7.Clear Away the Track/The Musical Priest
Comments: A collection of traditional and original tunes (some
not
recorded elsewhere, to my knowledge) by four of the staff
Shantymen
from the Mystic Seaport Museum. Rendition of "Jamestown.." is
truly
inspiring. Excellent insert notes. dd

=N=

Saturday Night at sea:
Sea faring Songs of the Sailing Days???
Artist: 97th Regimental String Band
CD SMOOTH 30980
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

Sacre Raffiot!
Chants de Marins
Artist: Nordet
K7 NOR 92-901
France
Availability:: [P]
Tracks:
A: 1 Mimosa; 2 Le gabier Noir; 3 Les Terre-Neuvas; 4 Mon P'tit
Garcon; 5 Le Captain de St Malo; 6 Haul Away
B: 1 Sacre raffiot; 2 Les Goemoniers; 3 harmonica; 4 Gallic; 5
Roules, jeunes gens; 6 Virginie; 7 Suite et fin
Comments: Just in case you thought all Chanties were in
English. Good music by a multi-instrumental -singing trio.
Instruments include accordion, guitar, mandolin etc.-hrw

=O=

Wave over wave
Artist: Payne O'Byrne
CD
CANADA
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Salty Seafaring Shanties
Artist: Milt Okum,
LP Legacy LEG 117
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Haul on the Bowline; 2 Blood Red Roses; 3 Hangin''
Johnny; 4 Clear the Track; 5 Lowlands; 6 Whiskey Johnny; 7
Eternal Father; 8 Early in the Morning
B: 1 Whup Jamboree; 2 Reuben Ranzo; 3 Amelia; 4 Shake Her
Johnny; 5 Paddy West; 6 Sally Brown; 7 Boney; 8 New Bedford
Whalers; 9 Rolling Home
Sea Fairers Chorus
Comments: md

=P=

The Wind that Tramps the World:
Songs and stories from Canada and the Old Country
Artist: David Perry
K7 Fogerty's Cove FMC 008c
Canada (1985 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side Sestina Of The Tramp Royal; Shallow Brown; The `Ole In
The Ark; In `Frisco Bay; The Cruise Of The Bigler; Three Score
And Ten; The Smoke Room On The Kyle; Mrs Mac Donald's Lament;
Sestina
B:side Klondike; The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill; The Walker Of
The Snow; The Young British Rancher; The Face On The Barroom
Floor; The sourdough's Lament; Sestina
Comments: A combination of song and poem recitation. Pleasant
singing with instrumental backup.

Hearts of Gold
Artist: William Pint & Felicia Dale
CD WBG 0008 (Waterbug)
USA 1994
Availability:: [E] [A]
Tracks: Hearts Of Gold; C'est L'aviron; Pump Shanty/Jump At The
Sun; Companioned By The Sea; London Julies; The Wreck Of The
Lady Washington; The Rolling Wave/ Homeward Bound; Hob Y Derri
Dando; Bay Of Biscay; Sail Away; The Essakeeba River; The
Atholl Highlanders
Comments: Mostly traditional sea songs, shanties & tunes
(not the top 40, though) in professional, contemporary style,
but faithful to the spirit of the songs in their original
context-gm

Port of Dreams
Artist: William Pint & Felicia Dale
CD IEZ 734-CD
Availability:: [E] [A]
Tracks: 1 The Saltpetre Shanty; 2 Tow Rope Girls; 3 Inside
Every Sailor; 4 Roulez; 5 Heave. Boys, Away; 6 The Gallant
Frigate "Amphitrite" ; 7 Three Bourrees; 8 Harbo & Samuelson; 9
The Clumsy Over; 10 John Damaray; 11 The Female Rambling
Sailor; 12 Hooker John; 13 Port Of Dreams
Comments: Mostly traditional sea songs, shanties & tunes in
professional, contemporary style, but faithful to the spirit
of the songs in their original context-gm
(see additional entry under Tom Lewis)

=R=

Sea Shanties
Artist: Robert Shaw Chorale
LP (record)-RCA LSC-2551
USA 1961?
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: The Robert Shaw Corale were (are?) one of the major
US recording Choirs during the 1950's. The performance would be
a full SATB choir version. This one would be pretty far
removed from any shantyman's version but for the sake of
completeness, I'd appreciate the track list and proper
information.

Sea Shanties
Artist: Roger Wagner Chorale
LP-Capitol P 8462
USA (1959)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments:? FFA

Songs Form the Sailing Barges
Artist: Bob Roberts
LP Topic 12TS361
UK (1978)
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 The Candle Light Fisherman; 2 The Grey hawk; 3 Stormy
Weather Boys; 4 Waltz With Me; 5 Haul Away Joe; 6 The Oily rig;
7 The Little ball of Yarn; 8 The Single Sailor; 9 Young
Collins; 10 The Fish and Chip Shop
B: 1 While the Gamekeepers lie Sleeping; 2 Windy Old Weather; 3
The London Waterman; 4 Bob Roberts Waltz; 5 Whisky Johnny; 6
The Foggy Dew; 7 Bell Bottom Trousers; 8 The Black Shawl; 9
Little Boy Billee; 10 The Collier Brig; 11 Leave Her, Johnny
Comments: Singer Button Accordion player. Like Hugill, he
worked in the trade and collected songs from the original
sources.

=S=

Fifty Sails on Newburg Bay
Artist: Pete Seeger
K7 Folkways 5257
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

Sea to Sea
Artist: Shanty Boys
Duncan Gillis, James Stephens, Jay Knutson, John Geggie, Louis
Schryer
CD- Factor P1 17456
Canada- 1995
Availability:
Tracks: The Field Behind The House; The Call; The Drinking Of
Whisky; My Hometown; The Ghosts Of The Island; Wings Of The
Sparrow; Halifax Tide; Lights In The Sly; Sailing Away; A
Fisherman's Daughter
Comments: Not really sea shanties . A contemporary folk album
of current material played in traditional style

Stand to Yer Ground
Artist: The Shanty Crew
Chris Roche, Gerry Milne, Dave Diamond, Tony Goodenough
K7 + Book, Screw Press
UK (1990)
Availability:: [H]
Tracks:
A:1 Rise `Er up; 2 Hob y Derri Dando; 3 The Anglesey; 4 A La
Rochelle Est Arrive; 5 Heave Away, Heave Away; 6 Blow Ye Winds;
7 The Sailor Fireman; 8 Brother Noah; 9 Slav Oh!; 10 Pump
Shanty
B: 1 Seraphina; 2 C'est L'Aviron; 3 Shiny O!; 4 High Barbaree;
5 Shantyman; 6 Essequibo River; 7 Lime Scurvy; A Sailorman's
Port in a Storm; Hilo Somebody; Stand to Yer Ground; The Mate
Comments: K7 comes with a book of words and background to the
songs. The group (six members) sing in a traditional style

Let the Wind Blow Free
Artist: The Shanty Crew
Phil Jarrett, Chris Roche, Phill Money, Tony Goodenough, Steve
Belsey, Dominic Magog
LP Coach House Records ESSAR 014
K7 + Book, Screw Press PROP 1886c
UK (1984, reissue1993)
Availability:: [H]
Tracks:
A: . 1 Royal Artillery Man; 2. Haul Away for Rosie; 3. Mobile
Bay; 4. Flash
Frigate; 5. Hog Eye; 6. 24th of Feb; 7. Lahoula T'Chalez; 8.
Roll the Wood
Pile Down; 9. Haul 'er away; 10. Rolling Down to Old Maui
B:. 1. Shake Her Johnny; 3 Fire Maringo; 4. Is the big fellar
gone; 4. Cheer'ly
Man; 5. Six feet of Mud; 6. Haul on the Bowline; 7. Coal Black
Rose; 8.
Eddystone light; 9. Emma Emma let me be; 10 Mingulay Boat Song
Comments: K7 comes with a book of words and background to the
songs. The group (six members) sing in a traditional style

Sea Shanties & Sailor Songs
Artist: The Shanty Crew
CD- Brewhouse BHCD 9601
UK 1996
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: " The album comes with an informed 52-page booklet,
but the shanties are presented in a way we have all heard much
too often over the years. The excellent singing of the only
female crew member, Rita Cherriman, only serves to emphasise
the ordinariness of the others" -FR #160

Maiden Voyage
Artist: Shanty Jack (with Stormalong John)
K7
UK (1993 )
Availability:: [M]
Tracks:
A:side Liverpool Packet; Round The Corner , Sally; Johnny Come
Down To Hilo; Lowlands Low; The Smacksman; Fire Down Below;
Ondon Julies; Trim Rigged Ducksie; The Campanero; Old Billy
Riley; A Long Time Ago; Gal Wid De Blue Dress On;
B:side Bring' Em Down; Do Me Ama; Ranzo Ray; John Kanaka;
Randy Dandy O; Emma Let Me Be; Cheerly Men; Liverpool Judies;
Blood Red Roses; sailor's Farewell Hymn
Comments: Traditionally sung, vocal lead chorus, and the
occasional concertina (which wasn't really a traditional
sailor's instrument) but nice work just the same.

Sea Shanties: from Dublin to Auckland /
Chants De Marins: De L'Irlande Au Pacifique
Artist: Spirit Boys
Rudy Sunde- Banjo, John Jones- Melodeon, John McGowan- Guitar,
Gavin Asher- Guitar, Grag Whitcombe Accordeon, Nigel Champion -
Melodeon, Martin Blackman- Vocal, John Walton and Crew of the
training ship Spirit of Adventure- Chorus
CD Playasound PS 65014 (French)
NZ Group (1986-87)
Availability:: [L] possibly [P] possibly
Tracks: 1 Leave Her Johnny, 2 South Australia, 3 Orpheus, 4
10000 Miles Away, 5 Nick Young, 6 Trumpet Hornpipe, 7 Donkey
Riding, 8 Across the Line, 9 Philomena D, 10 Drunken Sailor, 11
Captain Matheson, 12 Talcahuano Girls, 13 Liverpool Judies, 14
Auckland to the Bluff, 15 Tom's Gone to Hilo, 16 Dead Horse
Chanty, 17 Hornpipes, 18 Shore Whalers
Comments:
Original compositions and traditional chanties. Performed by
members of a New Zealand group associated with a Sail training
vessel.

Farewell to the Days of Sail
Artist: Mike Stanley
K7 City Folk Recordings CFR 015
New Zealand (1986 )
Availability:: from the Shanty Crew
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: ?

Songs of the Tall Ships: Cruising round Yarmouth
Artist: The Starboard List
Charles O'Hegarty, David Jones, Peter Marston
CD- GENES GCD-1025/27
USA (1976/77) CD 1996
Availability:
Tracks: Early One Morning; The 51st Highlander Division's
Farewell Toe Sicily; The Bark Gay Head; Wings Of A Gull; Cape
Cod Girls; Farewell To Tarwathie; Black Ball Line; Classic
Yankee Clipper; Paddy Lay Back; Columbia; Whup Jamboree; Ladies
Gay; The Royal Oak; The Grey Funnel Line; Leave Her Johnny
Leave Her; The Boarding House Song; Yarmouth Town; Bull Gine
Run; Bully In The Alley; Black Nag; Handsome Cabin Boy;
Greenland Whale Fisheries; The Alabama; Let Your Back And Sides
Go Bare; High Barbaree; Emma, Emma; Step Stately; Banks Of
Newfoundland; Bold Princess Royal; Cruising Round Yarmouth
Comments: extended play CD, reissue of two LP's

The Marco Polo Suite
Artist: Jim Stewart
CD EPC 192 CD
CANADA 1994
Availability:
Tracks: Anthem For The Wind & Water; The Launching; Marco Polo;
Australia; Bully's Hornpipe; The Pea Soup Calamity; Edwin's
Song; Southern Cross; Hob-Y-Derri-Dando; We Built This Old
Ship; To The Ends Of The Earth; Anthem
Comments: A musical tribute to the MARCO POLO, the clipper-
ship, built in Saint John New Brunswick, which carried many of
the Australian immigrants in the 1800's. Mostly original
compositions with a few traditional pieces.

A Liverpool Packet
Artist: Stormalong John
CD
UK
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Salt Atlantic Chanties
Artist: Tom Sullivan
K7 Folkways 37301
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments:???

(Syrens
Artist St. Elmo's Choir
K7 SEC 101C
USA
Availability:: from producer or [M]
Tracks:
A: Johnny Come Down To Hilo; Run The Rigging; Essoquibo River;
Subg Sakky-O; Sakky Racket; Shallow Brown; Let The Bulgine Run;
Flash Company; Grace Darling; By The Fires Of St Elmo
B: Outward Bound; Marching Inland; The Liner She's A Lady; Bold
Benjamin; Johnson Gals; Davy Lauston; Run Come See; Sail Away
Comments: St. Elmo's Choir, available from the producer at
Squire's Own Music, P.O. Box 15754,
Seattle, Washington 98115. St. Elmo's is an all woman sea
chantey group
that is becoming well known, not only in the NW but all over
the US and
Britain. There are two tapes available, the first is Syrens,
containing
a combination of traditional and original ballads and chanteys,
and White
Stocking Day is the second, half recorded live and half in the
studio and
is all traditional shanties. National Public Radio has done
several
shows featuring St. Elmo's and I know for a fact that at least
one set of
tapes has made it's way to Sweden. Stan Hugill was a good
friend who is
sadly missed, and he taught us several songs which we only sing
at small,
wild, drunken parties!!! - mb
- I now have both K7's and enjoy them thoroughly. The
performances are well done and lively
Anyone who thinks that only men should sing sea chanties
should give these two a listen. I the higher pitched voices
still bother them, then I suggest that they run the tapes at
half speed, which should lover the voices an octave or so, and
reduce the songs to the mournful durges which they no doubt
prefer-HW.

White Stockings
Artist St. Elmo's Choir
K7 SMC 201C
USA (1993)
Availability:: from producer
Tracks:
A: Chicken On A Raft; Haul On The Bowline; Sugar In The Hold;
Whup Jamboree; Shawnee Town; Bold Riley; Sailboat Malarkey
B Side Heave Away; Bully In The Alley; Cheerily Man; John's
Gone To Hilo; Jolly Roving Tar; Fire Marengo; Here's A Health
Comments: St. Elmo's Choir, available from the producer at
Squire's Own Music, P.O. Box 15754,

=T=

En revenant du large
Artist: Taillevent
CD
France
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments:

Voyageurs et Vagabonds:
Songs of the Voyageurs
Artist: Tanglefoot
Steve Ritchie, Joe Grant, Bob Wagar
K7-Ooze river recording Workshop- ORM8-989
Canada 1995
Availability: Tanglefoot, box 2263 Peterborough Ont., K9J 7Y9
Tracks:
A:side Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser; C'est Dans Le Mois De
Mai; Youpe! Youpe! Sur La Riviere; Canot D'ecorce; En Roulant
Ma Boule; La V'la M'amie
B:side Chevaliers De La Table Ronde; Complainte De Cadeaux; Au
Chant De L'Alouette;; V'la L'bon Vent; Vive La Canadienne;
C'est La Belle Francoise; C'est L'aviron
Comments: Traditional voyageurs, or fur canoe paddling songs.
Well performed

Kost' ar Mor
Chants de Marins du Pays bigouden
(Breton fishing songs)
Artist: Taran
CD Le Chase-Maree/ArMen SCM 027
France (1993)
Availability:: [LCM]
Tracks:
Comments: " Cabestan guitarist Arnaud Maissoneuve and John
Wright are
back as members of Taran, but here their role is to back up the
singing of Marie-Aline Lagadic...
the repertoire has a strong maritime content:" FR #126

In Port
Artist: Cyril Tawney
LP Argo/Decca ZFB 28
UK 1972
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Sally Free And Easy; 2 A Lean Unwashed Tiffy; 3 The
Ballad Of Sammy's Bar; 4 Stanley The Rat; 5 Diesel And Shale; 6
My Mother Came From Norway; 7 Six Feet Of Mud; 8 In The
Slidings
B:. 1 Five Foot Flirt; 2 On A Monday Morning; 3 Nobby Hall; 4
Cheering The Queen; 5 New Names For Old; 6 Chicken On A Raft; 7
The Grey Funnel Line
Comments: With the Yetties & Dennis McCallum

Seamen Bold: Songs of voyages, Battles and Shipwrecks
Artist: Cyril Tawney
K7 Neptune
UK
Availability::[H] [L] [A]
Tracks:
Comments: œ8 each Cassette from
Neptune FR
521 Meanwood Road Leeds LS6 4AW UK
"A traditional singer"-according to Dirty Linen
Little Boy Billee: Sea Songs for Children
Artist: Cyril Tawney
K7 Neptune NEP 006
UK (1992)
Availability::[H] [L] [A]
Tracks:
A: 1 In Frisco bay; 2 The Whaler; 3 The Candlelight Fisherman;
4 Little Boy Billee; 5 Hullabaloo Belay; 6 A Nautical yarn; 7
The Marman; 8 I've Been to France
B: 9. Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor; 10 Ben Backstay; 11 The
Merry Golden Tree; 12 The Crocodile; 15 Stanley the Rat; 16
Windy Old Weather; 17 The Cruise of the Calabar; 18 The
Sailor's Alphabet
Comments:

Sally Free and Easy: the Tawney Songs
Artist: Cyril Tawney
K7 Neptune NEP 002
UK (1990)
Availability::[H] [L] [A] [N]
Tracks:
A: 1 Cheering the Queen; 2 Sally Free and Easy; 3 Nobby Hall; 4
The Grey funnel Line; 5 The Lean and Unwashed Tiffy; 6 Six Feet
of Mud; 7 The Ballad of Sammy's Bar
B: 8 Diesel and Shale; 9 The Drunken Sailor; 10 The Suit of
Grey; 11 Chicken on a Raft; 12 The Oggie Man; 13 Stanley the
Rat; 14 Reunion
Comments: These are songs written by Tawney during his service
with the Royal Navy.

Sailor's Delight
Artist: Cyril Tawney
K7 Neptune
UK
Availability::[H] [L] [A]
Comments:

In The Naval Spirit
Artist: Cyril Tawney)
K7 NEP 000
UK (1987)
Availability:: [H]
Tracks:
A: 1 That's What It's Like In the Navy; 2 I Was Walking Through
the Dockyard in a Panic; 3 23rd Flotilla Song; 4 Canteen
Medley; Paint Ship Song; Swim Back you Bastard To Me;
Dardanelles Patrol Song; Take My Tip, Pack Your Grip; 5 You'll
Be Happy Sweetheart in the Spring; 6 Gosport Nancy; 7 Jenny
Wren Bride
B: 10 A Matelot and a Pongo; 11 Stripey and Blondie; 12 An A.A.
Gunner Lay Dying; 13 Corrosion Has Set In; 14 Waiting For the
Day; 15 Mary Was a Three Badge Wren; 16 The A25 Song; 17 The
Sinking of HMS Hood
Comments: companion tape to the book Grey Funnel Line-[H]

A Chesapeake Sailor's Companion
Artist: John Townley, & Press Gang
LP Adelphi Records
USA 1985
Availability:: PO Box 7688, Silver Spring MD 20907
(c) The Mariners' Museum
Tracks:
A: . 1. We Be Three Poor Mariners; 2. Tobacco Is Like Love; 3.
To Portsmouth: 4. While Up In The Shrouds; 5. Saturday Night At
Sea; 6. Tom Bowling; 7. The Jamestown Homeward Bound
B:. 1. Nolfolk Girls; 2. Running Down To Cuba; 3. The Old
Virginia Lowlands; 4. Bound For Baltimore; 5. The Titanic; 6.
Roseanna; 7. See You When The Sun Goes Down; 8. Sailing Down
The Chesapeake Bay

Sailor!
Artist: John Townley
K7 RCA 176
USA
Availability:: [L]
Tracks: A:1.Marco Polo;2.Strike the Bell;3.The Topman and the
Afterguard; 4.The Bully Song;5.The Lass that Loved a
Sailor;6.Essequibo River; 7. Row On
Side B:1.Shineo; 2.Instrumental; 3.Hog Eye Man; 4.Bounding
Billows; 5.Blood Red Roses; 6.Bully in the Alley; 7.The
Cumberland's Crew; 8.Riverboat Gambler
Comments: "songs from a 19th century seaman's chest, including
hog eye man, Bully in the Alley, The Cumberland Crew and many
others, on voice, concertina, fiddle, flute, guitar, banjo, and
tambourine" -

The Seaman's Concertina
-a beginners guide to the Anglo concertina in the nautical
style.
Artist: John Townley
VIDEO
USA
Availability:: [L] [E]
Tracks:
Comments: a basic instructional video

Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs
(of Vancouver)
Artist: Stanley G Triggs
LP Folkways FG 3569
Canadian (1961)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ? FFA

Sea Shanties
Artist: The Twelve Buccaneers, starring Colin Wilkie and
Shirley Hart
LP Saga FID 2090
UK(1967 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side The Bay of Mexico, Jack Ashore, Lowlands; Blow the Man
Down; Admiral Benbow; Little Sally Racket; Johnny Todd; Leavinf
of Liverpool; Whip Jamboree
B:side Santy Anno; Way Haul Away; Johnny Shormaler; Roll
Alabama; Flash Frigate; Rio Grande; Wild Goose Chanty; Drunken
Sailor; Shenandoah
Comments: Wilkie and Hart are well known British folk
performers

=W=

Mains'l Haul
Artist: Tim Paddy Walsh
LP Folk Tracks FSC 60 206
(1979)
Availability:: []
Comments: ?

The Watersons
Artist: The Watersons
LP Topic 12T142
UK ( 1965)
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side
B:side
Comments: The Watersons are were one of the top British Folk
groups. Excellent performances, with a strong female lead voice

Steady as she Goes
Artist: Jeff & Garret Warner, Lou Killen, Fud Benson
K7 LP Collector C1928
USA-(1977)
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
A: . 1 Paddy lay back; 2 Bold Riley; 3 Rolling down to old
Maui; 4 Jolly Roving Tar; 5 Topman & Afterguard; 6 Off to sea
once more
B: 1 Strike the Bell; 2 Ship in Distress; 3 Blow the Man Down;
4 The Coast of Peru; 5 All for Me Grog; 6 Shallow Brown; 7
Bring 'em down; 8 Away Rio
Comments: Traditional Sea Songs and Chanteys by folk performers

Fair Winds
Artist: The Wickford Express
Dave Peloquin; Cindy Peloquin; Everett Brown
CD LASERLIGHT 12 614
USA 1996
Availability:
Tracks: The jolly roving tar; Randy dandy-o; Highland Laddie/
Gaspee road; Lowland of Holland; Bulraker's reel; Silver
darlings; Fair winds; Old moke; farewell lovely Nancy; Lowlands
away; Prudence and patience; Leaving of Liverpool
Comments: Some shanty and traditional material mixed with
modern compositions. Instrumental accompaniment-hw

Away You Santy!
Artist: The Wickford Express
CD Laserlight 12 412
USA 1994
Availability::
Tracks:
1 The Mermaid, 2 Hornpipes, 3 South Australia, 4 Rosabella, 5
Boys of Blue Hill, 6 Farewell to Tarwaithe, 7 New York Girls, 8
General Taylor, 9 The Balaena, 10 Si Bheg Si Mhor, 11
Fisherman's Lassie, 12 Lord Inchiquin, 13 Bold Riley-O, 14 Red
haired Boy, 15 Talcahuand Girls/ Spanish Ladies
Comments: "Traditional Sea Songs and Chanteys by 3 person folk
group

Op de Wilde Vaart
Artist: Windkracht Acht
CD 148CD Pan Records
Netherlands
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ???

=X=

Sings at the South St. Seaport Museum
Artist: The X Seaman's Institute
K7 Folkways 32418
USA
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ? English and American sea and whaling songs FSB

Heart of Oak!
Artist: X-Seamen's Institute
Bernie Klay; Frank Woerner; John Townley; & Dan Aguiar
K7 Folkways 32419
USA
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
A: 1. Heart of Oak; 2 Rum Runner; 3 Strike the Bell; 4.
Gloucester Boys; 5. Hog Eye Man; 6. Santianno; 7. So
Australia; 8 Grimbsby Town
B: 1 Diamond; 2 Doodle let me go; 3 Black Ball Line; 4 The Big
Bow Wow; 5. Fire Down Below; 6. Reuben Ranzo; 6. Life of a
Leaf; 7. Tom Bowling; 8 Uncle Nobby's steamboat
Comments: ??

Sea Song Favourites
Artist: X-Seamen's Institute
K7 Folkways 37325
USA
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ??

=Y=

Hauling Home
Artist: Yankee Clipper
Cliff Butler, Paul Rasmussen, Mark Jardine, Steve Jensen
CD, Honeybee HBCD-3022
USA 1994
Availability:
Tracks: Lady Anne Montgomery's Reel; Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy;
Winnifred's Strathspey; Suzy Anna; Keel-Hauling Medley: Jigs;
Bound Out On A Whaler; Strike The Bell; The Conaught Heifers:
Reel; The Coast Of Peru; The Red Star Line: Reels; The Height
Of The Hill; Lament For The Landlocked Whale; Paddy Stacks
Medley: Jigs; Home Dearie Home; The Fireman's Lament; Hauling
Home: Hornpipes; A Sailor's Hymn; Let Union Be; O'Dowd's Reel
No. 9
Comments:

Our Friends the Yetties
Artist: The Yetties,
LP Argo/DeccaZFB 32
1971
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Aunt Hessie's White Horse/Villa Fiord; 2 Out in the Green
Fields; 3 Lamorna; 4 Three Reels; 5 Towersey Fair; 6 American
Reels; 7 The Rolling Hills of the Border; 8 Rodney's Glory; 9
Sweet Thyme
B:. 1 Santa Anna; 2 Hornpipes; 3 The Lark in the Morning; 4
Slip Jigs & Reels; 5 The Dreadnought; 6 The King of the
Fairies; 7 The Dancers of Stanton Drew; 8 # Jigs; 9 The
Thrashing Machine
Comments:

All at Sea
Artist: The Yetties
K7, CD
( )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
Hornpipe Medley, Spanish Ladies, Fiddler's Green, The Mermaid,
The Watchet Sailor, Three Sea Captains, Aboard the Kangaroo,
Can't you Dance the Polka, Ranter's Wharf, The Greenland Whale
Fisheries, Concertina Medley, Stormalong, The Quaker, The Banks
of Newfoundland, The Candlelight Fisherman
Homeward Bound.
Comments:

=Various Artists=

Songs & sounds of the Sea: a Sounds of the World Recording
Artist: Various
LP (record)-national Geographic Society 705(stereo)
USA 1973
Availability:
Tracks:
A:side Along The Pier (Sound Effects); The Dreadnaught (Cliff
Haslam); Money In Both Pockets (Boys Of The Lough); Blow Ye
Winds( Michael Cooney); Boston Harbour (Jeff & Garnet Warner);
Jolly Roving Tar (Jeff & Garnet); Patsey Campbell( Boys Of The
Lough); The Whale Catchers (Tony Barand) Wheat In The Ear
(Gordon Bok);The Little Beggar Man (Michael Cooney); Johnny
Todd ( Louis Killen); Sail Away Ladies (Michael Cooney)
B:side The Diamond (John Roberts); Deil Stich The Minister
(Dave Richardson); Rio Grande (Jeff & Garnet); Old Molly Hare
(M Cooney); Fiddle Medley( Rodney Miller); Captain Kidd ( Jeff
Warner); Liverpool Hornpipe (Boys Of The Lough); Queer Bungo
Rye ( Gordon Bok); Devil Among The Tailors (M. Cooney) ; Leave
Her Johnny Leave Her (Tony Salten)
Comments: Recorded at Vinyard Haven, aboard Cap't Bob Douglas'
extreme clipper ship, Shenandoah

Sea Songs: Newport Festival Vol. 2
Artist: UNK American Folk Collections
K7 Folkways 37312
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

Songs of the Sea
Artist: UNK American Folk Collection
K7 Folkways 37315
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

Sea Music of Many Lands:
The Pacific Heritage
Artist: UNKNOWN- American Folk Collections
K7 Folkways 38405
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

American Sea Songs and Shanties V 1, V 2
Artist: Richard Maitland & others
LP AFS L26, L27
USA (1939-1951, 1939-1946)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ?Library of Congress field recordings-FMS

Anthologie Des Chansons De Mer (5 Volumes, 10 LPs)
i-Chantes de Marines Traditionelles des cotes de France (et
Terre-Neuve)
ii-Danses et Compaintes des Cotes de France
iii-Chants de Bord des Baleiniers et Long-Courriers
iv-Ballades, Complaintes et Shanties des Matelots Anglais
v-Gens de Riviere et Bateliers des Fleuves de France
Artist: Various French, UK and European
LP CD Le Chasse-Maree
France(1981-85 )
Availability:: [LCM]
Tracks:
Comments: Gold medal winning anthology. Copies are still
available, and include an excellent book (in French) inside
each double album. Just in case you though that shanties were a
british-american preserve. Some of the material has been
released on 2cds (SCM 014 & 017). Vol iv includes Stan Hugill
material.

Anthologie de chansons de Mer -nouvelle serie(CD series)
1-Chants des Marins-Nantais
2-A Brest La Jolie-Chansons de ports
3-Chants des Marins-Anglais (Stan Hugill & Stormalong John)
4-Chants des Marins-European (live recordings)
5-Chants des Clippers
6-Ballades et Shanties des Matelots Anglais (English Sailor
songs)
7-Terre-Neuvas et Islandais -Chantes de la Grande Peche
(Fishing songs)
8-Les Musiques de la Fete-Brest 92
Artist: numerous
K7, CD
France( )
Availability:: [LCM]
Tracks:
Comments: More great stuff from the premier French publisher
of nautical material. The Fete (festival in English) recordings
are some of the finest live recordings of "performed" sea
chanties available. Makes you want to attend the next festival
in person. Great Stuff!

Between the Sound and the Sea
Music of the North Carolina Outer Banks
Artist: UNKNOWN- "American Folk Collections"
K7 Folkways 3848
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
Comments: ???

A Pince of Salt; British Sea Songs Old and New
Artist: Various UK performers
Shirley Collins, Cyril Tawney, Seamus Ennis, Isabel
Sutherland, Steve Benbow, & Bob Roberts
LP HMV XLP 50004
UK (1960)
Availability::
Tracks:
A: On a British Submariner; Maggie May ; Handsome cabin-boy;
the Mary Anne; McHugh; Santy Anno; My Bonny Boy; The Banks Of
Claudy; Jack Went a-sailing
B: Fine Gal You Are; Henry Martin; Long Years Ago; The Arbroath
Tragedy ; Paddy & the Whale; The Bleacher Lassie O'Kelvin Hall;
Tom's gone to Hilo;
Time for us to Leave her
In order of the songs:
C.Tawney; Bob Roberts; Isabel Sutherland; Seamus Ennis; Steve
Benbow;
Shirley Collins; Bob and Ron Copper; Steve Benbow; Seamus
Ennis; Jimmie McGregegor; Shirley Collins; Fred Dallas; Steve
Benbow; Isabel Sutherland; C Tawney; Bob Roberts
Comments: A marvellous LP which is ridiculously rare. The
tracks are exclusively available on this album-PL

Blow the Man Down
Artist: Various UK Folk Performers
Louis Killen 1,6,9,13, 17, 19 24; Ian Campbell, 2,8,14, 23;
Ewan MacColl, 3, Cyril Tawney,4,10,16,22,; Harry H Corbett,5;
Sam Larner,7; Bob Davenport, 11,20; The Watersons, 12; Bob
Hart, 15; A.L.Lloyd, 18; Bob Roberts, 21.
CD TOPIC TSCD464
UK 1993
Availability::[H] [A]
Tracks:
1 The Wild Goose, 2 Lovely Nancy, 3 The Black Ball Line, 4 The
Nightingale, 5 Blow the Man Down, 6 Heave Away My Johnny, 7 The
Lofty Tall Ship, 8 Row Bullies Row, 9 The Flying Cloud, 10 The
Fireship, 11 Tom's Gone to Hilo, 12 Greenland Whale Fisheries,
13 The Ship in Distress, 14 Lowlands Low, 15 Cod Banging, 16
One Morning in the Spring, 17 Highlow Johnny Brown, 18 The
Bonnie Ship the Diamond, 19 The Bold Princess Royal, 20 Billy
Boy, 21 Windy Old Weather, 22 The Bold Benjamin, 23 The Hog-Eye
Man, 24 Goodbye, Fare Thee Well
Comments: Traditional sea songs and Shanties by many UK folk
performers
,partial reissue of 1964 LP "Farewell Nancy"

Sea Songs & Shanties: from the last days of sail
Artist: Various UK singers
Bob Roberts-1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,20,22,26; Fishermen's
Group-2,10,16; Bob & Ron Copper- 4,21; Harry Cox-6,14,23; Sarah
Makem-8; Clifford Jenkins-12; Tom Brown-25;
CD Saydisc SDL 405
UK 1994 (recorded 1950-1960)
Availability::[H]
Tracks:
1 Stormy Weather Boys; 2 Rio Grande, 3 Mister Stormalong, ; 4
Warlike Seamen (The Irish Captain), 5 The Worst Old Ship
(Waiting for the Day), ; 6 The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song, 7
Maggie May, ; 8 Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold, 9 Whisky
Johnny, 10 What Shall we do with a Drunken Sailor,; 11 Can't
you Dance the Polka, ; 12 The Sailor's Alphabet; 13 Haul Away
Joe, , 14 Cruising Round Yarmouth,; 15 Windy Weather, ; 16
Farewell and Adieu (We'll Rant and We'll Roar),; 17 High
Barbaree, ; 19 Little Boy Billee, ; 20 Johnny Todd, 21 The
Banks of Claudy, 22 The Bold Princess Royal, 23 Jack tar on the
Shore, 24 The Smuggler's Boy, 25 The Smacksman, 26 Hanging
Johnny
Comments: Very traditional songs and shanties, many sung by
seafarers
these are historical recordings, not performances.

The Soil and The Sea
Artist: The Almanac Singers
Pete Seeger A2,A3,B2; Woody Gutherie A3,A4, Peter Hawes B3,B4
LP Commodore TL 5299
US (1964)
Availability::
Tracks: (sea chantys only)
A: 1 The golden Vanity; 2 Blow Ye Winds , Heigh Ho; 3 Blow the
Man Down;
B: 2 The Coast of High barbary; 3 Away Rio; 4 Haul Away Joe
Comments:

Victory Sings At Sea
Chanteys & Songs from Northwest Musicians
Artist: Various
Bartels, Cramer, Dale, Eggleston, Folsom, Grantham, Guthe,
James, Kotta, Morgan, Morgan, Pint, Roberts, Sparrow, Widmann
CD K7 VMRCD-503
K7 NCA
203, CD NCD270USA
Availability:: [A]
Tracks:
Comments: victory Music, P.O. Box 7515 Bonney lake, Washington,
98390
Traditional and contemporary shanties and sea songs-gm

Shanties Der Sieben Meere
Artist: Various
Nana Gualdi, Maria Kloth, Nina Westen , Richard Gatermann, Das
Roland-Trio, Kurt Stephan, Horst Mamerow, Akkordoen u.v.a.
LP Florett 948 896
Germany
Availability::
Tracks:
A: 1 Wenn ik mol no Hamburg komm; 2 La Paloma; 3 Baltimore
Song; 4 Roll the Cotton Down; 5 A Long time Ago; 6 Whisky-
Johnny; 7 My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean
B: 1 Der machtigste Konig im Luftrevier; 2 Kary waits for me; 3
Sailing Sailing; 4 Hamburg ist ein Schones Stadtchen; 5 Aloha
Oe; 6 Musz I denn zum Stadele hinaus
Comments: German and English Sea Songs, sung in
German music hall style. It sounds like the type of sing
along music that one would likely hear in a Hamburg sailors
bar. Imagine Stan Hugill alongside Liza Minelli in Cabaret.

Chants Des Clippers
Artist: Various Artists
CD Le Chasse Maree/ Armen SCM 029)
France
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: "
# French groups interspersed with Stormalong John from
Liverpool and Forebitter from USA( Most satisfying musically)
provide a selection of shanties in French and English,
completed with some appropriate tunes and one vintage track of
Ewan MacColl. The excellent well-illustrated booklet is clearly
a labour of love>" FR #129

Sea Shanties
Artist: various
Roy Harris A2,A4,A7,B3, B8 ; A. L. Lloyd A3, A6,A8,A10,
B2,B4,B7; Ian Manuel B6; Bernard Wrigley A9, A11,B5; Martin
Wyndham-Read A1,A5, B1,B5
LP Topic 12TS234
UK 1974
Availability::
Tracks:
A: .1 Hoorah for the Black Ball Line; 2 Old Billy Riley; 3
Roll'er Down the bay; 4 Round the corner Sally; 5 Haul away the
bowline; 6 The sailboat Malarkey; 7 Bring'em down; 8 Sally
Brown; 9 Shallow Brown; 10 Bold RIley O; 11 Heave away, my
Johnny
B:. 1 Reuben Ranzo; 2 Hilo John Brown;3 Shake her Johnny;4 Ho
Bowline, Bowline haul; 5 Haul away for Rosie; 5 Blood-red
Roses; 6 Around the bay of Mexico:8 Goodbye, fare ye well
Comments: Good productions of traditional material

Sea Songs and Shanties (Topic Sampler No. 7)
Artist: Various UK
A.L.Lloyd A1, A6, A8, B4, B7; Ewan MacColl A2, A5, B2;
Watersons A4, A9,B5, B6; Ian Campbell A7; Harry Corbett B1;
Stan Kelly B3; Louis Killen B8
LP Topic TPS 205
UK (1967 )
Availability:: []
Tracks:
A:side 1 Blood Red Roses; 2 The Black Ball Line; 3 Maggie May;
4 The Plains of Mexico; 5 The Dreadnought; 6 Reuben Ranzo; 7
Lowlands Low; 8 Do Me Ama; 9 Boston Harbour
B:side 2 Blow The Man Down; 2 The Handsome Cabin Boy; 3 Away,
Haul Away; 4 The Coast of Peru; 5 All For Me Grog; 6 The
Greenland Whale Fishery; 7 A Hundred Years Ago; 8 Goodbye,
Fare Thee Well
Comments: A sampler of songs from other Topic records by top
British folk singers of the 50's and 60's

The Wind in the Rigging
Artist: Various
CD Norstar CD0009
K7 Norstar C0009
??
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
Comments: ?' unique instrumental arrangements of traditional
and contemporary music of the sea"-[E]

Sea Songs Sea Festival Series #1
Artist: Various
R. Morton & M Bridgham; Dan Aguiar A 2 & B 7; L Killen A3 & B
3; C Branson; P Heron; M Benson; S Hugill A7 & B1;Mary Wilson;
John Townley; D Baumgarten; B Klay
LP K7 Folkways
1979
Tracks:
A: . 1 I'ze the Boy; 2. Santinanno; 3. Shoals of Herring 4.
Hanging Johnny; 5. Mingulay Boat Song 6. Roll the Old Chariot;
7 Lowlands
B: 1. A long time ago; 2. Sailboat Malarkey 3. The Bleecher
Lass of Kelvin Hall; 4. Run come see 5. Greenland Fisheries; 6.
Sailor's Alphabet; 7. Alice Wentworth
Comments:?

Sea Songs Sea Festival Series #2
Artist: Various
S Hugill A1; David Jones A2; Dan Aguair A 3&5; Tom Towline A4 &
B4; Cathy Katzberg & Steve Snyder A6 & B1.; Charlie O'Hegary
A7; Avid Baumgarten B2; Bernie Klay B3; Paddy Heron & John
Townley B5
LP FOLKWAYS FTS37312
Availability::
Tracks:
A: . Paddy Lay Back; Ye Mariners All; Lower the Boat Down;
Colombo: Wrecker's
Prayer; Saucy sailor; Topman & Afterguard.
B: The Argo; The California; The island Lass; The Oda G;
Donegal Danny
Comments:

Songs of the Great Lakes
Artist: Various US, collected by Edith Fowke
Stanley Baby A1,A3,A5,A7,B1,B4,B6; CHJ Snider A2 A6, B5; OJ
Abbott A4; Orlo Brandon B2, B3,B4
K7 LP Folkways FE4018
US (1964 )
Availability:: [F]
Tracks:
A:side The E.C. Roberts; The Maggie Hunter; The Dreadnought;
James Bird; The Fayette Brown; The Loss of the Antelope;
Homeward Bound
B:side The Cumberland's Crew, The Cumberland's Crew; The
Merrimac; The Schooner Persian's Crew; The Wreck of the Asia;
The Trip of the Bigler
Comments: original sources, usually sung without accompaniment.

= UNKNOWN Artists=

Sailing & Whaling songs of the 19th Century
Artist: ???
CD BESCOL-CD389
?
Availability:: [E]
Tracks:
Comments:?

Roll & Go: The Shantyman's Day Aboard a Yankee Clipper
Artist: UNK
Heirloom Records HL-504
USA (1960's)
Availability::
Tracks:
Comments: ?? FFA

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IV: Books of Sea Songs
===================================================

Key: Melody line- single note score of the tune
Piano Score-Left and right hand arrangement
Guitar Chords- chord letters ( i.e. C, Am)

========================
Ashton, John, Real Sailor Songs, London, 1891 also NY 1972
L.C. 78 160612, Pub Blom Ayer- 0-405-08224-X
7x10, 272 pages, 70+ songs
Words, no music
Comments: The book reproduces a number of Broadsheets of
popular 18th century sea music. Complete with illustrations

Bailey, R. & Roth H., Shanties by the Way, Lawrence Verry 1968

Beck , Horace, Folklore and the Sea, The American Maritime
Library, Vol VI, Mystic, 1973
8x11, 463 pages, a dozen songs
some words, a few melody lines.
Comments: Songs are only one chapter of this book, which makes
a study of sea lore, life, legend, and livelihood. A good read,
for a reference book.

Bone, D.W. Capstan Bars, New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. , 1932
6x8, 160 pages, 25 songs
Words, melody line, notes and descriptions
Comments: Bone's book is more a social history of seafaring in
the 19th century, illustrated with songs and pictures. Nice
work

Carey, George Gibson, A Sailor's Songbag: an American rebel in
an English Prison 1777-1779/

Carmer, C. , and Sirmay A., Songs of the Rivers of America, NY:
Farr & Rinehart, Inc., 1942

Colcord, Joanna C., Songs of the American Sailormen, Bramhall
House, NY, 1958
Originally published as "Roll and Go"
(also 1924 & 1938, and Oak publications, NY, 1964)
7x10, 190 pages, 70+ songs
Words, melody line, description of song
Comments: Colcord's work is one of the original collections,
done from original sources in the 1920's.

Cole, William, The Sea, Ships and Sailors, Hart-Davies, London,
1968
7x9 223 pages,
Words and poems
Comments: a collection of sea inspired poems and a few song
verses. Nicely illustrated

Corp, Roger, Folk Songs of the Sea, Faber Music, London, 1991
ISBN 0 571 51120 1
Availability:: [H] [A]
81/2x11, 28 pages, 28 songs
Words, Melody Line, Piano Score and Guitar Chords
Comments: A collection of Sea songs, mainly for children,

Creighton, Helen, Maritime Folk Songs, London 1979
-Words, Melody Line
Comments: Material collected in traditional fishing and rural
communities by the author, one of Canada's leading ethnic
musicologists. I believe that Folkways have the companion
tapes.

Creighton, Helen, Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia, Dover,
New York, 1966
ISBN 0-486-21703-5
61/2x9, 330 pages, 150 songs
-Words, Melody Line
Comments: Material collected in traditional fishing and rural
communities by the author, one of Canada's leading ethnic
musicologists. I believe that Folkways have the companion
tapes.

Davis, Beryl, Tall Ship Shanties,, Spin Publications ,1982
Availability:: [H]
81/2x11, 30 pages, 30 songs
Words, Melody line, Guitar Chords
Comments: Most of the regular chanties,

Dean, Michael, Flying Cloud, Norwood Editions 1973 (reprint of
1922 book)

Doerflinger, William, Shantymen and Shanteyboys: Songs of the
Sailors and Lumbermen ,
MacMillan: NY 1951
Words, melody line
Comments: This is another one of the major collections. A large
book, with extensive notes

Dubbin, Charles, Sea Songs, London: George Routlidge & sons,
1840
comments: a collection of sea poetry and broadside type songs
by one of the greatest exponents of the style.

Fingard, Judith, Jack In Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada ,
University of Toronto, 1982
6x9, 292 pages
A few songs, words, no music
Comments: This book was a study of the Sailor towns, good and
bad. A historical view of the life and conditions which lead to
the writing of many shanties, it belongs in a chantyman's
chest.

Finger, Charles, Frontiers Ballads, Doubleday 1927
Comments: contains some chanty material

Firth, CH Ed, Naval Songs and Ballads, London: Naval record
Society, 1908
6x9,390 pages,150+
words only
Comments: This is a book of naval poems and broadsheet style
songs. No chanty materials

Ford, Clifford, songs of the Sea: Folksongs of Nova Scotia,
Canadian Music Centre, 1978
Words, melody line, Piano
Songs Include: Willie O, Dark Eyed Sailor, Crocodile Song,
Black-Eyed Susan, Come All Ye Old Comrades
Comments: This is a hand-written manuscript done for Canadian
Music Centre under a grant from the Bronfman Family Foundation,
no doubt in homage to the long association of their family with
the sailing schooners that ran rum into the USA during
prohibition.

Fotheringham, Robert, Songs of the sea and sailor's Chanteys,
Books for Libraries,
Reprint of 1928 book, HB

Fowke, Edith ed., Sea Songs and Ballads from 19th Century Nova
Scotia:
The William Smith and Fenwick Hatt Manuscripts, 1897-1955
Folklore Press, 1981
LC 81-68629
6x9, 118 pages, 60+ songs
Words-no music, descriptions
Comments: Fowke was one of the pre-eminent collectors of North
American folk music. A scholarly work, but no help with the
melodies for the songs.

Greenleaf, Elisabeth B., Ballads and Sea-Songs of
Newfoundland, Folklore Assn: Hatsboro, Penn., 1965

Gullers, KW & Sundblad Bo, Sea Songs, KW Gullers International,
Stockholm, 1976
Comments: Unusual book. It's all the standard English sea
chanties, with words in English. A sound page is included. The
arrangements are modern, including rather jazzy guitar chords.
-Words, Melody Line, Piano score, Guitar Chords

Harlow, Fredrick Pease ,American Chanteys, Barre, Mass: Barre
Bazette 1962
(also pub. as Chanteying Aboard American Ships)

Healy, James N. , Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, Mercer
Press, Cork, 1967
4x7,142 pages, 83 songs
Words, Some melodies lines, notes, descriptions
Comments: Some chanty material, but mostly Irish sea related
songs. A Clancy Brothers collection put to print . It has
recently been reissued

Heaton, Peter & Bird, Marie, Songs Under Sail, Crescendo, 1971

Hugill, Stan, Shanties from the Seven Seas, Dutton 1961
also ÷ London: Routlege, 1961 (corrections 1987) IBSN 0-
7102 0412-4
Also 1994, Mystic Seaport ISBN-0-913372-70-6 $19.95
-Words, Melody Line
Comments: The big book. Over 400 songs, with considerable
textual material. 428 pages. Probably the most complete, and
scholarly study of Sea Chanties commercially available.
Unfortunately, as Stan admits in the book, and for which
Gershorn Legman takes him to task, many of the songs were re-
written to disguise their original bawdy content.

Hugill, Stan. Shanties and Sailor Songs, London: Herbert
Jenkins, 1969
Comments: a reprint of Shanties and Sailor songs-out of print

Hugill, Stan. Sea Shanties, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980
IBSN 0214203298
Comments: a reprint of Shanties and Sailor songs-out of print

Hugill, Stan, Songs of the Seas, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1977)
81/2x10, 198 pages,60+ songs
Words, melody line, brief notes
Comments: Intended to be a more "user friendly" book than
Stan's opus. Includes stories and pictures. Browses would love
it. Fanatics will stick with the opus.

Hullfish, William, The Canaller's Songbook,
Availability:: [A]
Comments: Folkways has a companion K7

Hungtington, Gale, Songs the Whalermen Sang, Dover, NY, 1963, &
1970 IBSN 486-22169-5
7x10,328 pages, 200+ songs
Words, melody line, notes and descriptions
Comments: another of the great works , found in every serious
collection.

Ives, Burl, Sailing , Whaling and Fishing Songs

Kemp, Peter, ed.. Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, OUP
1988
ISBN 0192820842
6x9, 965 pages ---I repeat 965 pages
Comments: This is an encyclopaedia, a dictionary of nautical
terms, a who's who of the sea, etc. But it does have a few sea
chanties in it. A good general reference book.

Kinsey, Terry, Songs of the Sea, Robert Hale, London, 1989
IBSN 0-7090-3696-5
6x9, 210 pages, 60+ songs
-Words, Melody line, notes and descriptions
Availability:: [H]
Comments: Regular book size. 206 pages. A hundred or so
chanties, and Forebitters, with general classifications as to
type and use, and discussions about life at sea.

Le Chasse-Maree, Cahiers de chants de marins,
-Le Chasse-maree: -Douarnenez, France, 1983 (rep. 1991)
-ISBN 2-903 708-12-6 ( Paperback A4 size 92 pages)
Le Chasse-Maree, Cahiers de chants de marins Vol. 2,
-Le Chasse-maree: Douarnenez, France, 1993
-(Paper back A4 size 88 pages 60+ songs)
Le Chasse-Maree, Cahiers de chants de marins Vol. 3,
-Le Chasse-maree: Douarnenez, France, 1993
-(Paper back A4 size 92 pages 60+ songs)
Le Chasse-Maree, Le Chant de marin: Guide de repertoire
traditionnel,
-Le Chasse-maree: Douarnenez, France, (96 Pages)
Comments: IN FRENCH-The first three books are song books,
nicely illustrated with photos, drawings (many by Stan Hugill),
and paintings of sailors life a sea and ashore. Each song has
the music, words (including French translation of English
songs). The first book also has the Melodeon TAB (Button Box)
for each piece. There is a description of the songs, mostly
Shanties, including an explanation on how they were used. There
is also an extensive discography, identifying the songs on
LCM's Chants de marins CD's. A good reminder that Sea Chanties
were by no means only sung in English.
The fourth book is a profusely illustrated, more scholarly look
at sea music.

Landelle, G. de la, Chansons Maritime,
14.5x20.5cm, 218 pages
Availability: La Chasse-Maree
Comments: IN FRENCH- Probably the largest collection currently
available of French chanty material

Loffet, Bernard, Chants de Marins, Imp. Heklev-Rennes, 1994
A4, 64 pages, 10 songs
Words, music, Tab (melodeon)
Availability:: [P]
Comments: Sea chanties in French and English, a companion to
the Group, "Nordet"'s K7. easy to follow if you want to learn
sailor style button Accordeon.

MacKenzie, W. Roy, Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia,
Harvard Press, 1928
Reprinted - Folklore Associates, Hatboro, Penn, 1963
5x8, 421 pages, 162 songs
Words, some melody lines, notes and descriptions
Comments: A major collection effort by a top academic. Rates as
one of the best original collections. A scholars work.
Masefield, John, Salt Water Poems and Ballads, MacMillan,
London, 1935
Comments: Masefield is a famous poet. He also collected sea
chanties, but this book is his poetry

Palmer, Roy, Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Oxford: OUP, 1986
IBSN 0192821555
5x8, 343 pages, 159 songs
Words, melody line, notes and descriptions
Comments: A good book, with a heavy naval and broadsheet
content. It includes WW2 laments etc. Very much a mixed bag

Proctor, David (National Maritime Museum)Music of the Sea,
London: HMSO, 1992
ISBN 0 11 29052 X
Comments: A scholarly discussion of the music played on the
sea. There is a section on chanties, but also sections on
Broadsheets, Naval bands, and ship's orchestras. Not a tune
book, but a scholarly look at the music played on the sea, and
who played it.
A good section on Shanties as a music form.

Rickaby, F., Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy, Cambridge:
Harvard U. Press, 1926
Comments: This is a book of lumberman's songs. However, since
the lumbermen of the US North East , and Canadian Maritimes
often shipped out during the off season, the songs here would
also be repersentative of many which were sung at sea.

Shay, Frank, Iron Men And Wooden Ships: collections of Sailors
Songs and Chanties,
Golden Label Books, Inc., NY, 1927
(probably reissued as)

Shay Frank American Sea Songs and Chanteys, Books For
Libraries 1948
American Sailors Treasury. 1991 Smith mark 0-8317-0288-5
L.C. 77-84358 Granger Indes reprint 0-8369-6061-8
(Ayer)
(This book reprints the Wooden ships book, and the Sailor's
Treasury)
6x9, 417 pages, 70+ songs
Words, Melody lines, notes and descriptions
Availability:: I've seen this one for sale and on sale
recently, in the eastern US. Get it while you can.
Comments: Quite a good collection, with illustrations and
notes. The `Sailor's treasury" part has a fair bit of folklore
and nautical life trivia. Shay is better known for some of his
more risqu‚ collections. This book was the clean versions of
the songs he collected. The original verse exists, under the
name of Dave E Jones, This see the Bawdy section for more
information

Silverman, Jerry Songs of the Sea, Rivers, Lakes, & Canals, Mel
Bay pub, Pacific, MO USA, 1992
Availability:: [A]
81/2x11208 pages, 80+songs
-Words, Melody line, Piano score, Guitar Chords
Comments: Big size (8 1/2x11) 206 pages. Easily the best
musical source in English. Each of the approximately 100 song
is presented with full melody line, piano score, and guitar
chords, and in a size that is easily readably.

Smith, C(Cicely). Fox, Rovings: Sea Songs and Ballads, Matthew,
London, 1921
4x6, 52 pages
Poems and a few songs
Comments: this is just a book of nautical poems. Several of
Foxes earlier works are shanty collections.. Other books
include Full Sail: More Sea Songs And Ballads, Sailortown Days,
Songs And Chanties, A Book Of Famous Ships, Ship Alley, The
Return Of The Cutty Sark

Smith, L.A., Music of the Waters, Kegan Paul, London 1888
reprinted Singing Tree Press, Detroit 199
6x9, 350 pages, many songs
Words Melody lines, notes and descriptions
Comments: Old, rare and expensive. The title page says it all.
"A collection of the sailor's' chanties or working songs of the
sea, of all maritime nations. boatmen's , Fishermen's, and
rowing songs and water legends. The L.A. stands for Laura
Alexandrine. She was the daughter of the Russian vice-consul in
the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. and I quote..." With the
courage of a n original investigator, our authoress has
ventured to "beard the lion in his den". She has personally
gone straight to the fo'c'sle and interviewed the sailor not
only of her own, but of other lands, and thus has gathered from
the men's own lips, and from their manly voices, the words and
melodies which are most popular among them"
I'd love to know more about her collecting experiences. One of
the best books available-IMHO

Terry, R.R., The Shanty Book (2 parts) London: J Curwen & Sons,
1921, 1926

Tawney, Cyril, Grey Funnel Lines, Routledge & Kegan Paul:
London, 1987
IBSN 0-7102-1270-4
Availability:: . [H] [A]
Comments: Traditional songs from the Royal Navy- 2 Cassettes
available as well. Tawney served with the RN and wrote many
songs about life in the service. The book is a view of life,
as reflected in song. Many of the songs are parodies of popular
tunes. Tawney describes the situation surrounding each song.
-Words, some melody lines

Trident Society (of the USNA), The Book of Navy Songs,
Doubleday, 1935
81/2x11, 200 pages, 100+ songs
Words, melody line, arrangements, Illustrations, notes
Comments: cleaned up versions of popular songs and chanties

Whall, W B: Sea Songs and Shanties
4th ed., Glasgow: J Brown & sons, 1920
6th ed. Brown Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1927, reprinted
1986
IBSN 0851741819
7x9, 154 pages, 63songs
- Words, melody lines, piano arrangements
Comments: in print
153 pages, 63 songs, plus commentary and illustrations (book
size)
Captain Whall was an Oxford graduate who was formally trained
in music. He went to sea in 1861, and collected sea shanties
while serving on sailing ships. He gives some commentary on the
background of the songs, and has some opinions which would be
considered very non-PC today (i.e. one section is titled
"Nigger Songs"). Some of the songs have incomplete words, as
the originals, in his words, were "the veriest filth.".
However, this said, he collected most of his material from 1861
to 1872, the hey day of shanty singing, and from included
sources who had "served at sea before 1815, the year of peace,
and who were of the old school.". The book itself is well
presented

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V: Bawdy Sea Song Books
============================================

One issue which always comes up, when one sings sea chanties
as generally commercially presented , is the lack of anything
naughty in the verses. It can now be revealed that the songs,
as originally sung, were generally quite rude. However, to
preserve the sensibilities of the listening and buying public,
clean versions were generally recorded or published.
Except here.

Babad, Harry, Roll me Over, Oak Pubs, NY, 1972
Availability:: [E]
Comments: in print- Songs as sung, with the original words.

Brand, Oscar, Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, Dorchester
Press, NY, 1960
Comments: Risqu‚ words to his best known works. Four letter
words omitted in the interests of obscurity

Cal. Tech, Songs of Raunch and Ill Repute, Ricketts House
Caltech, Pasadena, 1958
Comments: a mimeographed set of word sheets

Cray, Ed, The Erotic Muse (2nd), Uni. of Illinois Press
6x9, 430 pages, 100+ songs
words, melody line , notes and descriptions
Comments: This is one of the more comprehensive works on the
subject. No words are omitted. Alternative versions are
presented. Some chanty material. Now that the 2nd edition is
available it should be easily obtainable. A must for any
serious student of the Bawdy song. Definitely non-PC. Don't
show your mother ...let her find her own copy.

Hogbotel & Ffuckes, More Snatches & Lays (revised Ed), Sun
Books Australia, 1973
Comments: mostly rude words to songs. No tunes

Hopkins, Anthony, Songs From the Front and Rear: Canadian
Servicemen's
Songs of the Second World War, E Edwards Hurting,
1979
Comments: A fairly extensive coverage of military dirty ditties

Hugill, Stanley J (As Long John Silver), Sailing Sea Chanties)
MS Aberdovey, Merioneth, Wales (circa 1956-57)
Comments: (dirty version of his commercial text)- Apparently no
publisher would print the real words, so Stan produced this as
an authentic record to preserve them. If anyone has a copy or
knows where one can be obtained....e-mail me collect-HW

Locker Room Ballads, Ace Books, NY, 1967 (reprint from Rugby
and More Rugby Songs)
Comments: words, but no music to the standard songs. All
naughty words are replaced by *** (or more usually ****)

McCurdy, Ed, Ed McCurdy's Song Book of Wit and Mirth, Hargail
Music Press, NY 1963

More Rugby Songs, Sphere Books, London, 1968
Comments: more rude songs and poems. Naughty Words replaced by
***

Niles, John Jacob & Moore, Douglas S., Songs My mother Never
Taught Me, Gold Label Books, Inc., 1929
Comments: This work was published shortly after WW1. It is , by
modern standards, almost inoffensive, as there are no rude
words. However, at the time it would have been considered
risqu‚. Interesting note. John Jacob Niles is one of the most
revered and respected names in the collection of early American
folk music.

Randolph, Vance, Roll Me In Your Arms, Ozark Bawdy Ballads V.1
Randolph, Vance, Blow the Candle Out, Ozark Bawdy Ballads, V.2
Comments: These are huge volumes, and are an exhaustive and
scholarly research on the subject of dirty songs. It is
extensively footnoted and bibliographied. PhD level stuff.
Plenty of naughty words, explained in more detail than you
might think necessary.

Rugby Songs: Why Was He Born So Beautiful, And Other., Sphere
Books, London, 1967
Comments: words, but no music to the standard songs. Naughty
words replaced by ***

Shay, Frank & Held Jr, John, More Pious Friends and Drunken
Companions, Golden Label Books, Inc. 1928

Shay, Frank & Held Jr, John, My Pious Friends and Drunken
Companions, Golden Label Books, Inc. 1927
Comments: Interesting collections of what would be considered
off colour (at the time) songs and rhymes. No naughty words

Shay, Frank (as Dave E. Jones), A Collection of Sea Songs &
Ditties, from the stores of Dave E. Jones., USA (circa 1928) 44
pages
Comments: According to Gershorn Legman, this unpublished
manuscript contains the original versions of the sea chanties
that Frank Shay collected for his book "Wooden Ships and Iron
Men". It was considered too risqu‚ for publication at the time,
but has the authentic version of the songs. The original copy
may be found at the Kinsey Institute , -HW

Silverman, Jerry, The Dirty Song Book, G Degenhardt Dorset
Press, US Tip Tree

NOTE: If anyone had a lead on the Stan Hugill-Long John Silver
manuscript, please contact me. It is much sought after and
needed for the next version of the list.

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VI: Major Collections:
===================================================

There are several major collections of Sea Chanties which are
more or less available to the public, if you happen to be
located close enough to them

1- Harvard University- Boston Massachusetts, USA

James Madison Carpenter's PhD thesis -Fo'c's'le Songs and
Shanties, plus notes and field recordings-1929
The notes are at Harvard, the cylinder recordings are in the
Library of Congress. Apparently the English Folk Dance & Song
society obtained a microfilm copy, plus tape copies so they
must be commercially available. I have no idea of the cost or
who to contact.

2- English Folk Dance & Song Society
2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
-which oddly enough is the same address as Hobgoblin Music's
London store.
Access is available, though this is a private collection
Librarian: Malcom Taylor (44+71) 485 2206

3- Chris Roche ( a member of the group-Shanty Crew)
A large private collection of nautical, including over 100
volumes of shanties and sea songs.
(Access by written application: 6 Brafferton Road, Croydon
Surrey, UK CR0 1AD)

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VII: Festivals of Shanties & Sea Music:
===================================================

>Sea Chantey festival at Mystic Seaport?
Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, USA
July 9-11,1995

Contact:
Geoff Kaufman
Mystic Seaport Museum
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT 06355-0990
Telephone (203)572-0711 or 572-5350

Information:
The festival is usually the second weekend in June which this
year will be
June 13-15. It starts with a concert on Friday night. Saturday
starts with a
symposium presenting 3(approx.) papers on various aspects of
sea music.
Saturday and Sunday afternoons have workshops at various
locations
throughout the Seaport including demonstrations on shipboard.
Saturday
evening has a concert, a contra dance and ends with a pub sing.
The entire
festival ends with a farewell concert from about 4-6 P.M. on
Sunday. I can't
tell you about costs since my husband and I volunteer on the
sound crew and
get the weekend free. You can contact the Seaport by writing to
them at:
Mystic Seaport Museum
75 Greenmanville Ave.
Mystic, CT 06355-0990
Telephone (203)572-0711 or 572-5350
The festival co-ordinator is Geoff Kaufman of the Education
Dept.
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>Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia CANADA

(First Weekend in August)
Contact:
PO Box 655
Lunenburg, NS
CANADA B0J 2C0
Phone (902) 634-3180
Fax: (902) 634-3572

Information:
Lunenburg is (or was) the fishing capital of Canada, and the
current crisis in the state of the World's fish stocks have hit
Lunenburg worse than most. However, Lunenburg itself is a
picturesque town on picturesque Mahone Bay, in Picturesque Nova
Scotia.

The acts are a mix of nautical, Celtic, trad and modern folkie,
and whatever else the organisers have been able to attract.
Last year they had, among others, Starboard Side (local
chanties), Penny Lang ( a 60's folk survivor), Jeff Warner (US
chanty and trad folk), and Roddie Romero and his Rockin'
Cajuns, the hottest new Cajun act from Louisiana.

The Festival has been run for several years now, and it is a
real family affair, meaning that everyone gets treated like
family. The festival itself is scattered around the town. There
are children's events. There are free events. There are paid
events. It's small by big city festival standards, with an
attendance of hundreds at the bigger events. Probably several
thousand total for the entire weekend. The quality, however is
very, VERY good. Many of the performers are local (Nova
Scotian, which includes Cape Breton), but they also attract a
few top level international performers. Mind you, a number of
the Nova Scotian performers now have world class reputations
and play big venues elsewhere. However, Lunenburg is the
festival equivalent of a kitchen ceilidh, which means that the
performers usually circulate out front to watch the other
acts. Nice, relaxed venue. But remember, because of the
weather, the main events are held in a tent, so tickets go
really fast for the main acts.

Did I say weather? Nova Scotian summer weather can be very
good, or very bad. Can't predict it, but we've learned to live
with it. Bring T-shirts and shorts, sweaters and rainwear. Last
year the festival fleecy sweatshirts were the "hot" item, the
year before it was the T-shirts and sun-visors.
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>Songs Of Sail
Penetanguishene, Ontario CANADA

(First Weekend in August-)
Contact:
Songs of Sails Festival
P.O.. Box 339
Penetanguishene, Ontario
CANADA L0K 1P0
Phone: (705) 361-3084

Information:
Up until 1993 the festival was held at the Naval and Military
Establishments in Penetanguishene. That site (now called
Discovery
Harbour) is a reconstruction of a 19th century British ship
repair yard.
In later years it became a military site, although there were
never any
battles fought at the site.

In 1993 we moved the festival from its usual last weekend in
August to
the first weekend in August. We did this to align the festival
with the
Atlantic Challenge bantry boat race in 1994. The story is a
long one,
but the net result was that, after the 1993 event we
accumulated a
considerable debt. We were not in a position to hold the event
in 1994.
Thus the irony was that after moving the festival to coincide
with the
Atlantic Challenge, We did not hold a festival in 1994.

Anyway, that is all history. In 1995 we will be back at out
old weekend
(August 25 to 27). The festival will be held in "downtown"
Penetanguishene (population 6,000). We are kicking off the
weekend with
a Friday evening boat cruise (capacity 200) on Georgian Bay,
complete
with performances by a couple of the weekend performers.
Saturday and
Sunday will feature performances, workshops, crafts, displays,
etc.,
running from 10:00 am until 8:00 PM. Admission to the festival
is $5.00
for adults and $2.00 for children, per day. The boat cruise
tickets
are $10.00 each. By the way, the 1995 festival is being held
at the
Centennial Museum, next to the waterfront in Penetanguishene.

The line-up is as follows:

Tamarack
Richard Knechtel
Lee Murdock
Geoff Booth
John Mayberry and Jamie Beeton
Don McGeogh
Mundy's Bay Grog League
Jim MacMillan
Margaret Cristl
Bill Russell
Ian Bell and Kate Murphy
Huronia Old Tyme Country
Eric Dubeau
Artisan (not yet certain)

To contact the festival

Songs of Sail Marine Heritage Festival
P.O. Box 298
Victoria Harbour ON L0K 2A0
Canada

Phone (705) 361-3084

There is a camp site available, about 15 km away at a cost of
$25.00 for
the weekend.
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1996

Here is the line-up for Songs of Sail Festival in
Penetanguishene,
Ontario.

Eileen McGann & David Knutson
Tom Lewis
Nonesuch
County Vaudeville
John Mayberry & Jamie Beeton
Colleen McQuarrie
Lu Robitaille
Mundy's Bay Grog League
Marg Raynor
Tanglefoot
Evalyn Parry & Cheryl Neil
Len Wallace
Octamerous
Dent-de-lion
Jim MacMillan
Cindy Thompson

There web page is located at: http://www.bpm.on.ca/sos.html

--
Jim Hanmore _________________________________________________
Back Porch Music, RR 1, Victoria Harbour, ON, CANADA L0K 2A0
Phone: (705) 534-6394 E-mail: b...@bpm.on.ca
Fax: (705) 534-9985 WEB: http://www.bpm.on.ca

>International Sea Shanty Festival
Hull, Humberside UK

(First Weekend in September =31 Aug. -3 Sept.)
Contact:
Linda Martin
Shanty Festival Office
120 George Street
Hull,
UK HU1 3AA
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>Swansea Maritime & Shanty Festival
West Glamorgan, Wales
Here is info on Swansea Sea Shanty Festival. Sorry I have taken
so long in replying. Most of the events are free of charge.
There is a concert on Saturday evening with a charge.

Swansea Maritime & Shanty Festival
West Glamorgan,
Wales

2nd Weekend in May 9-11 1997

CONTACT : Sara Selby
Leisure Promotions Section
Room 165
The Guildhall
Swansea, UK
SA1 4PE

PHONE : (01792) 302427
After April 1st 1996 : (01792) 635428

FAX : (01792) 302408
After April 1st 1996 (01792) 635408

INTERNET : 101614.2742@COMPUSERVE

ARTISTS PROVISIONALLY BOOKED

Hughie Jones, Shanty Jack, Tom Lewis, Portsmouth Shantymen,
Johnny Collins, The Anchormen, Baggywrinkle, Long John Silver,
Hearts of Oak, Campangiezangers.

Sing around in the Queens Hotel Friday night.

Quayside entertainment from 12 noon - 5 pm on Saturday and
Sunday alongside the Maritime and Industrial Museum includes
children's entertainment.

Music all day in the Queens Hotel Saturday and Sunday. Model
Boats Display. Talks by the Sail Training Association.

Regards

Contact:
Sara Selby
Leisure & Promotions Section
Room 165
The Guildhall
Swansea
UK SA1 4PE
Phone: (44+792) 302 427
Fax: (44+792) 302 408
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Brest 96
13 20 July 1996

Contact: Brest 96
BP 1996
29269 Brest, Cedex, FRANCE
Tel (33) 98 00 96 96
Fax(33) 98 00 96 90
Comments:
I have never been to one of the Brest fetes, but I have heard
the recordings made (see La Chasse Maree). If this one is like
years previous, it will be a huge festival of boats, ships,
people and music, Hundreds of concerts with the top sea
musicians from all over Europe , North America and the world.
I'd love to be there. I'll probably have to buy the CD and just
dream.

other festivals:
Sail-events and international shantyfestivals 1997
__________________________________________________

1 International Shantyfestival Hamburg Germany
May

2 International Shantyfestival Langes|nd Norway 6/8
June

3 SAIL-event and int.Shantyfestival Den Helder Holland 4/5
June

4 Sail-event and int. Shantyfestival Ipswichtown Uk
27/29 June

5 SAIL-event and int.Shantyfestival Aberdeen UK
12/14 July

6 International Shantyfestival Rotterdam Holland
30/31 August

7 International Shantyfestival "Seafever" Hull Uk 5/7
Sept

8. International Shantyfestival Vegesack Bremen Germay
20/21 Sep

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VIII: Regular Chanty Sings
==============================

>
1- San Francisco, CA: Maritime Historical Park
first Saturday of every month (8 PM to Midnight)-gb

2-New York

The monthly Sea Chantey Sing at South Street Seaport is on for
next
weekend:

Bring a friend, bring an instrument, bring your favourite sea
songs,
to share with like-minded sailors, singers, and musicians...and
plan
to have some big fun!

Where: Seamen's Church Institute
(near South Street Seaport Museum)
241 Water Street (2nd floor)
New York, NY

When: 8:00 p.m. Saturday evening, February 24, 1996

Who: You

How: Telephone Bill Becker at 212-748-8675 to get your
name on the guest list: this will assure that you and
your guest(s) are allowed in.

Bring: A musical instrument, songs, a friend, your favourite
beverage, your voice, & your smile! The Seaman's Church
Institute also has refreshments (adult and other)
available
for charges ranging from free to nominal.

How much: Free--- but if you enjoy the evening, a donation to
help support the snail-mailing list and to help the
work of
our hosts (The Seaman's Church Institute, which helps
to provide a variety of social and spiritual services
to mariners who pass through the Port of New York)
is welcome.

From: gr...@netcom.com (Greg Bullough)

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IX: SOURCES:
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Mail-Order Retailers
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The letter in the brackets i.e. [Z] is used in the recordings
and books sections to indicate that the material is available
from the following retailers.

[A]
Andy's Front Hall
PO Box 307
Wormer Road
Voorheesville, NY, USA 12186
Ph: (1+518) 765-4193
FAX: (1+518) 765-4344
fen...@aol.com
Comments: Andy's is one of the best US sources for books, music
and other folk related materials. Write for a catalogue.

[E]
Elderly Instruments
1100 N. Washington
P.O. Box 14210
Lansing, MI, USA 48901
Ph: (1+517)372-7890
Fax: (1+517)372-5155
Comments: Elderly have a very good selection, and probably the
cheapest prices. Write for their Recordings, and Books
catalogues.

[F]
Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
Office of Folklife Programmes
955 L'Enfant Plaza
Suite 2600
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, USA 20560

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Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
414 Hungerford Drive
Suite 444
Rockville, MD, USA 20850
Ph: (1+301)443-2314
Fax: (1+301)443-1819
Comments: In 1988 the Smithsonian acquired the rights to all
Folkways records. Between 1947, and 1987 Folkways produces over
2100 records covering the entire spectrum of Folk, and what
would be now called World music. Seeger, Gutherie, Paul
Clayton, Alan Mills...it's all there. Mostly K7's, with
increasingly more available on CD. Write for the catalogue.
It's got something for everyone, literally.

[H]
Hobgoblin Music
17 Northgate Parade
Crawley, W. Sussex, UK RH10 2DT
Ph: (44+1293)51 58 58
Fax:(44+1293)851 620
Comments: Hobgoblin are the best source I've found in the UK.
Much of what they have is unavailable from any other source.
They have a colour catalogue which is the instrumental
equivalent of the Simpson's or Sears Christmas catalogue. Page
after page of " I want...I want." There is also a shop in
London (2 Regents Park road, London NW1 7AY).

[L]
Lark In The Morning
P.O. Box 1176
Mendocino, CA, USA 95460
Ph: (1+707)964-5594
Fax:(1+707)964-1979
EMAIL LARK...@MHS.MENDOCINO.K12.CA.US[11]
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/La
rknet/larkhp.html
Comments: Lark's catalogues the greatest source of everything
that has ever been played. Every instrument imaginable, and
some that are unimaginable. It also has some Sea Shanty
recordings not available from any other mail-order source that
I've found so far. Try their WWW pages for an on-line view.

[M]
Mystic seaport Museum
Publications Department
75 Greenmanville Ave.
P.O. Box 6000
Mystic, CT USA 06355-0990
Ph:(1+203)572-5347
Fax: (1+203)572-5326
Comments: I was disappointed with the Mystic catalogue as there
were only two items of Sea Music listed, though both are
irreplaceable: Stan Hugill's Book and one K7 of his music.
Perhaps the museum store has more items available for sale.

[P]
Paris-Accordeon
80, rue Daguerre
75014 Paris, France
Ph: (33)43 22 13 48
Comments: Paris Accordeon is my only current mail-order source
for French Chants de Marins. Obviously they have a great
quantity of button Accordeon music and books...and since the
button Accordeon was a major sailor's instrument...
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Magazines
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DL-Dirty Linen Magazine
P.O. Box 66600
Baltimore, MD, USA 21239-6600
Ph: (1+410)583-7973
Fax: (1+410) 337-6735
EMAIL: 7402...@compuserve.com
FTP: ftp.cac.psu.edu
Comments: MONTHLY-The US equivalent of Folk Roots. DL is a Folk
and World music review publication. It covers performers,
performances, festivals and releases (i.e. record reviews).
Their tour schedule and festivals list is available on-line.
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FR- Folk Roots Magazine (fro...@cityscape.co.uk)
WWW: http://www.cityscape.co.uk/froots/
Comments: MONTHLY-The European equivalent of Dirty Linen.
Reviews artists, performances and recordings. You'll probably
read about it here first, then decide if you want to order it.
The publish a list of European festivals and performance
venues. If you're planning to visit Europe and what to know
who's playing where, it's probably here.
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>
LCM-La Chasse-Mar‚e-(Histoire et Ethnologie maritime)
BP 159
29171 Douarnenez, Cedex, FRANCE
Ph: (33)98 92 09 19
Comments: This appears to be a magazine devoted to things
Maritime. In format it appears to be like GEO or national
Geographic, with articles and many pictures on a variety of
nautical subjects. Vol# 18 has an article on Stan Hugill, Vol#
40 on Sea Chanties, and Vol# 58 on music on board ship. (IN
FRENCH). They also produce extensive recordings of French sea
chanties, as well as covering the Breton (the French Celts)
music and cultural scene. They have a catalogue available with
a host of nautical items books, music, prints, models etc.
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SO-Sing Out Magazine (Sin...@pipeline.com)
Comments: Quarterly-Still at it, after all these years.
Publishes songs, music and information (general and specific)
on folk music, including occasionally, Sea songs. Also
publishes and calendar of events (i.e. festivals)
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>TM- Trad Magazine (musiques traditionnelles)
B.P. 27
62350 SAINT VENANT, FRANCE
Ph: (33)21 02 52 52
Fax: (33)21 27 16 70
Comments: BIMONTHLY-A French "Sing-Out" Magazine. Similar
format, but it includes songs and music TABed for the Button
Accordeon. Obviously, it also covers the (extensive) French
traditional music venues.
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WWW Sites
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Digital Tradition http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad
Mystic Seaport http://www.mystic.org/
Songs of Sail Festival 1996 http://www.bpm.on.ca/sos.html
Caltech Rowing club
http://www.cco.caltech.edu:80/~ward/chanty/
Andrew Draskoy's Page http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~andrew/shanty

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General Reference Books
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FFA-Folksingers and Folksongs in America,(Ray M Lawless, NY
Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1965)
L.C.-65-21677
Comments: A reference book which surveys the Folk (mainly US)
music sources, and gives mini-reviews. An annotated
bibliography of folk.
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FMS-Folk Music Source Book, (Larry Sandberg, Da Capo Press,
1989)
Comments: The only currently available annotated bibliography
of US Folk Music. Lists and describes books and recordings.
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Internet Contributors
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Peter Loughran-pl
Greg Bullough-gb
Walter Nelson-wn
D. Deangelis-dd
Mary Benson-mb
William Wagman-ww
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Jan Huttinga-jh
Ivar Nefstad-in
Abby Sales-as
Hugh Williamson-hw
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Prof. Hugh R. Williamson
Compuserve: hug...@COMPUSERVE.COM
MAIL:
....6188 Pepperell Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CANADA B3H 2N9
Ph:(902) 423-7465
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