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…
Tag: Short Sharp Shanties
“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:…
Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Blow away the morning dew sea shanty
The ballad known as The Baffled Knight is reported in many text versions both in the eighteenth-century collections…
Rolling Sally Brown!
In the sea shanties Sally Brown is the stereotype of the cheerful woman of the Caribbean seas, mulatta or creole,…
Blow the man down sea shanty
"Blow the man down", that is to knock a man down or strike with a fist, belaying pin or capstan bar, is…
Pubblicato inEMIGRATION SONG/Canti sull'emigrazione, FOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk, FOLK INGLESE/English Folk
The Irish Girl of Mr Tapscott
A sea shanty known by various names "The Irish Girl", "The Irish Emigrant", "Yellow Meal" or "Mr Tapscott"…
Undaunted Mary or “The Banks of the Sweet Dundee”
"Undaunted Mary" or "The Banks of the Sweet Dundee" is reported in numerous broadside (since 1820) and today…
