The Dead Horse (Poor Old Man) 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…
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 & the Sweepstake
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…
Pubblicato inDrinking song/ CANTI DA OSTERIA, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Little Billee sea shanty
Little Billee or “Three Sailors from Bristol City” is a sea song with caustic humorism which deals with…
Blood Red Roses, a whale shanty
To introduce two new sea shanties in the archive of Terre Celtiche blog I start from Moby Dick…
Farewell Lovely Nancy by Cecil Sharp
"Farewell Lovely Nancy" or "Lovely Nancy" is a traditional ballad collected in 1905 by Cecil Sharp from Mrs.…
Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
The Grey Funnel Line
Il folksinger Cyril Tawney scrisse The "Grey Funnel Line" nel 1959 prima di congedarsi dalla Marina Reale del Regno…
Old Man of the Sea
Baby Gramps un po' hobo, un po' pirata, con una voce da vecchio lupo di mare, nasce a Miami…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
The Pinery Boy
"Pinery Boy" è la versione americana di una vecchia canzone inglese (Sailor's life, Sweet William) ambientata nel mondo…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
The Cry of Man by Harry Kemp
"The Cry of Man" è un adattamento musicale dei versi del poeta e scrittore Harry Hibbard Kemp (1883–1960), idolo dei…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
Dan Dan, sea shanty
Dan Dan è un sea shanty riportato da Stan Hugill che dice di averlo appreso dall'amico marinaio Barbados…
Rogue’s Gallery & Sun of Rogues
In the wake of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" the producer Hal Willner (with Gore Verbinski and…
Greenland Whale Fishery: dove c’è ghiaccio e neve e le balene soffiano
"Greenland (Sperm) whale fishery" è una canzone del mare che risale forse al 1700, ed è ancora oggi…
