Hello Somebody
Hello Somebody è un canto marinaresco che appartiene alla famiglia Hilo shanties (si veda in particolare la versione Hilo, Come…
Tra terra e cielo, la cultura nei paesi dei Celti
Categoria: Drinking song/ CANTI DA OSTERIA
Rolling Home By The Silver Moon
Rolling Home By The Silver Moon è un capstan shanty trascritto da Stan Hugill nella sua prima edizione della raccolta…
The Beggar
The Beggar è una delle canzoni che esalta le “virtù” di vivere mendicando e riempendosi la pancia di buona birra.…
Magna Giuana (Maria Gioana) e il problema del bere
[Nigra 87; trad.] Il tema della testamento in cui il protagonista esprime il desiderio di essere sepolto insieme al suo amato…
Landlady count the lawin: Hey Tutti taiti
“Landlady count the lawin”/Fill, your bumpers high è una drinking song scritta da Robert Burns sulla melodia “Hey Tuttie Tatieper”…
“Kiss me I’m IRISH” versus “Kiss me, I’m shitfaced”
Leggi in italiano “Kiss me I’m Irish” is the catchphrase of St. Patrick’s Day, written on shirts and billboards or…
Killyburn brae, Jack O’Lantern in a dress
Leggi in italiano The theme of the Devil who tries to take a sinner to hell is a classic of…
A Pint of Plain & irish pub
Il Brindisi alla “Pint of Plain” al minuto 13:50 del documentario The Dubliners’ Dublin mi ha suggerito questa puntata sull’irish…
Fill, fill, the merry bowl
"An Anacreontic" or "Fill, Fill, the Merry Bowl" is a poem composed by Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) in the wake of…
Coggie Thou Heals Me
"Coggie thou heals me" by Robert Tannahill is a drinking song between the humorous and the bitter, written on the…
Carrickfergus or Do Bhí Bean Uasal
"Carrickfergus" comes from a Gaelic song titled Do Bhí Bean Uasal weitten by the Irish bard Cathal "Buí" Mac Giolla…
John Barleycorn must die!
John Barleycorn (in Italian Giovanni Chicco d'Orzo) is a traditional song spread in England and Scotland, focused on this popular…
Good luck to the barley mow
A popular drinking song from rural England, Ireland and Scotland (and the Americas) that could not miss after the "crying…
Paddy Lay Back: take a turn around the capstan
Paddy Lay Back is a kilometer sea shanty, variant wedge, sung by sailors both as a recreational song and as…
Little Billee sea shanty
Little Billee or “Three Sailors from Bristol City” is a sea song with caustic humorism which deals with a disturbing…
Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down
Entitled "Jolly Roving Tar" but more frequently "Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down" here is a forebitter song that ironizes…
All for me Grog
The song "All for me grog" opens with the refrain, in which our wandering sailor specifies that it is precisely…
Rattlin’ Bog: The Everlasting Circle
Like the hopscotch known by children of all continents, even the "song of the eternal cycle" is a drop of…
Sailor’s holy ground in sea shanty
Holy Ground is the promised land of any sailors, and it is also the title of a sea shanty of…
Love is pleasing/ Love Is Teasing / I Never Thought My Love Would Leave Me
Love is pleasin' è una canzone tradizionale che era di moda nei folk club degli anni 60-70, gli studiosi ritengono…