Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Hooker John (Mary’s on the Island)
“Captain Whall gives a verse and chorus called Ooker John in his book Sea Songs and Shanties. From my Barbadian friend…
Tag: sea shanty
The Liverpool Packet, sea shanty
“The Liverpool Packet” (also The Flash Packet) is a sea shanty with a 4-verse refrain sung on the…
The Shaver sea shanty
From “The Shanty Book” (part two) -1926, as a Windlass and Capstan Shanties by Richard R Terry (now…
Derby Ram sea shanty
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 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…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
Roll the Cotton Down – Moses! Sea shanty
This sea shanty comes in two versions, one as halyard shanty and the other as capstan shanty (with…
Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Captain Nipper
The song appeared in print around 1914 in a book entitled Shanties and Forebitters by Bessie (Mrs Clifford) Beckett,…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
He Back, She Back (Old Moke Picking on the Banjo)
Hulton Clint writes: “The lyrics are cobbled together from railroad work songs, minstrel jingles, mis-hearings of “Shule Aroon”…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
Bear Away Yankee, Bear Away Boy
he shanty "Bear Away Yankee" (Deep The Water, Shallow The Shore) comes from the singing of West Indies…
Little Sally Racket
"Little Sally Racket" ("Haul her away") is a sea shanty with peppery jokes about the women of the…
