Billy Boy è considerata dai più la parodia della ballata dell’Avvelenato (Lord Randal Child #12 Appendix)). E’ una…
Stan Hugill la imparò da “Harding delle Barbado” che “sang it with many falsetto yelps and hitches almost…
“Captain Whall gives a verse and chorus called Ooker John in his book Sea Songs and Shanties. From my Barbadian friend…
“The Liverpool Packet” (also The Flash Packet) is a sea shanty with a 4-verse refrain sung on the…
From “The Shanty Book” (part two) -1926, as a Windlass and Capstan Shanties by Richard R Terry (now…
The oldest traditions of the mid-winter festival included an auspicious quest in which a group of young people went from house to…
The Dead Horse is a sea shanty aka Poor old Horse or Poor Old Man about a curious…
Roll the Cotton Down si presenta in due versioni una per gli alaggi e l’altra per il sollevamento…
Hulton Clint writes: “The lyrics are cobbled together from railroad work songs, minstrel jingles, mis-hearings of “Shule Aroon”…
he shanty "Bear Away Yankee" (Deep The Water, Shallow The Shore) comes from the singing of West Indies…
The George Aloe and the Sweepstake o (The Coasts of) High Barbary is considered both a sea shanty…
"Fire Down Below" in addition to being the title of a film and a rock song is above…
"Blow the man down", that is to knock a man down or strike with a fist, belaying pin or capstan bar, is…
Little Billee or “Three Sailors from Bristol City” is a sea song with caustic humorism which deals with…
There are several sea songs entitled "the Banks of Newfoundland", not to be properly considered variations on the…
Ci sono parecchie sea songs dal titolo "the Banks of Newfoundland", da non considerarsi propriamente come variazioni su…
The nineteenth-century image of sailor is rather stereotypical: Jack Tar is a drunkard and a womanizer, perhaps a…
A sea shanty from the music hall composed by Harry Clifton (1824-1872) and published in 1856 as On Board…
Una sea shanty nata per il music hall composta da Harry Clifton (1824-1872) e pubblicata nel 1856; Stan…
Derivata da una minstrel song in voga nel 1842, la versione sea shanty è al contrario piuttosto rara.
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