The Dead Horse (Poor Old Man) sea shanty: Working off the Dead Horse
The Dead Horse is a sea shanty aka Poor old Horse or Poor Old Man about a curious…
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…
Hurrah For the Black Ball Line!
The Black Ball Line was the first shipping company to offer a transatlantic line service for the transport…
Billy Riley sea shanty
The halyards shanties were very common on nineteenth-century ships (postal, merchant or whaler). The song "Billy Riley" is…
Blow Boys Blow (Banks of Sacramento)
With the title "Blow Boys Blow" the version of John Short mixes the verses of "Banks od Sacramento"…
Sweet Nightingale from Cornwall
The folk song was probably born in Cornwall with the titles of"Sweet Nightingale", "My sweetheart, come along" or…
Whip Jamboree sea shanty
Le versioni folk (in primis gli Spinners) di questo sea shanty sono state modellate sul testo raccolto nel…
Lucy Long sea shanty
Derivata da una minstrel song in voga nel 1842, la versione sea shanty è al contrario piuttosto rara.
Pubblicato inFOLK AMERICANO/ American Folk
Run, Let the Bulgine Run, sea shanty
Bulgine Run (Let the Bulgine Run) è una sea shanty meno conosciuta di Eliza Lee con la quale…
Blow Boys Blow (Banks of Sacramento)
Anche con il titolo "Hoodah Day Shanty" ma anche "Banks of Sacramento" è una sea shanty che presenta…
Pubblicato inFOLK INGLESE/English Folk
Blow away the morning dew, sea shanty
Blow away the morning dew è una versione della ballata tradizionale “Baffled Knight”. La ballata è riportata in…
The Banks of the Sweet Dundee
"Undaunted Mary" o anche con il titolo "The Banks of the Sweet Dundee" è riportata in numerosi broadside…
