Concerto per calafataggio: Get Along Down Buddy
Musica maestro: Giuseppe Balistreri -Lampedusa Get (Come) Along Down Buddy american sea shanty (horsing chant) Il Calafataggio di…
Tag: sea shanty
Pubblicato inEMIGRATION SONG/Canti sull'emigrazione, Epoca dei grandi Velieri, STORIA IRLANDESE/ Irish history
Across the Western Ocean
Una sea shanty che è anche un canto dell’emigrante dal titolo “Across the Western Ocean”, è all’origine della…
As I was a walking down Paradise Street (Blow the man down sea shanty)
Leggi in italiano “Blow the man down”, that is to knock a man down or strike with a fist, belaying pin or…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
No more auction block, dallo spiritual a Bob Dylan, passando per la sea shanty
Abbiamo qui un brano di ribellione, dalla forza straziante, un canto di libertà, che prende il suo avvio…
Pubblicato inFOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari
Essequibo River
Uno shanty caraibico che fa il paio con John Kanaka, essendo le melodie molto simili. Entrambi sono riportati…
Strike the Bell, Second Mate
A.L. Lloyd scrive: “Henry Clay Work (1832-84), a Chicago printer, wrote Marching Through Georgia, The Ship That Never Returned, Grandfather’s Clock and other…
Pubblicato inFOLK BALLAD/Ballate popolari
John Kanaka naka, tulai e
Stan Hugill la imparò da “Harding delle Barbado” che “sang it with many falsetto yelps and hitches almost…
Bring ‘Em Down
Una hauling sea shanty (heavy-haul one-pull shanty.) Scrive Al Lloyd “Like Bold Riley O, this tune (a Dorian one)…
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…
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 (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…
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
Roll the Cotton Down – Moses! Sea shanty
Questa shanty si presenta in due versioni una per gli alaggi e l’altra per il sollevamento dell’ancora (con…
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…
The Coasts of High Barbary
The George Aloe and the Sweepstake o (The Coasts of) High Barbary is considered both a sea shanty…
South Australia sea shanty
Under the heading Codefish shanty we have two versions, one of Cape Cod and the other of South Australia: the…
