The Dead Horse sea shanty: Working off the Dead Horse
Leggi in italiano “Paying off the Dead Horse” perhaps derives from a custom in negotiations between breeders: once…
Tra terra e cielo, la cultura nei paesi dei Celti
Tag: Rogue’s Gallery
Pubblicato inMUSICA CELTICA/ Celtic music, Musica irlandese/ Irish music, STORIA IRLANDESE/ Irish history, TURISMO IN IRLANDA/ Ireland travelling, Usanze e tradizioni/ Folklore
Bonny Portmore: the ornament tree
Bonny Portmore could be understood symbolically as the decline of the Irish Gaelic lords: pain and nostalgia mixed…
The Coasts of High Barbary
The George Aloe and the Sweepstake o (The Coasts of) High Barbary is considered both a sea shanty…
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold
A love story between a young girl who denies her noble and wealthy family and her wealthy life…
Cape Cod Girls
Under the heading Codefish shanty we have two versions, one of Cape Cod and the other of South…
“Fire Down Below” the last shanty
"Fire Down Below" in addition to being the title of a film and a rock song is above…
A fierce song for halyard: Bully in the Alley
"Bully in the Alley" is a halyard shanty with origins referable to the black slaves involved in loading…
Pubblicato inFILM, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Hanging Johnny : hang, boys, hang
"Hanging Johnny" is an halyard shanty in which we talk about the hangman who hangs all those who…
Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Boney was a warrior
Boney was a warrior is a sea shanty originally born as a street ballad on the Napoleonic wars:…
Sally Brown I rolled all night, capstan shanty
In the sea shanties Sally Brown is the stereotype of the cheerful woman of the Caribbean seas, mulatta or…
