Sea shanty A-Z list è l’elenco di tutte le sea shanties discusse in Terre Celtiche Blog.

Una sea shanty (chanty) era la canzone di lavoro marinaresco sulle grandi navi a vela.
Finita l’epoca dei grandi velieri il repertorio delle canzoni marinaresche documentato dai veterani in pensione, è sbarcato sulla terra.
Oggi sono cantati da ex-marinai o figli di ex-marinai, appassionati di vela e amanti del mare in generale, rievocatori storici, musicisti folk.

Innanzitutto abbiamo una raccolta moderna: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” di Stan Hugill (1961) con informazioni di prima-mano, la cosiddetta “shantyman’s bible“!
L’ultimo degli shantyman Hugill (1906-1992) ha lasciato delle pietre miliari sul suo cammino, pubblicando ben 5 libri sui canti dei marinai (gli ultimi due nel 1977 “Sea Shanty” e “Songs of the Sea”) divulgandoli in numerose registrazioni e spettacoli live insieme al gruppo folk del Merseyside, gli Stormalong John.

Sul suo canale You Tube Gibb Schreffler (con lo pseudonimo hultonclint) ha dato vita ad un grande progetto “A Journey through Stan Hugill’s Shanties from the Seven Seas“ per cantare tutte le canzoni marinaresche (oltre 400 titoli) dal libro di Stan Hugill.
Soprannominato lo “You Tube Chanteyman” ci restituisce le canzoni marinaresche in tutta la loro schiettezza.

Boxing the Compass: A Century and a Half of Discourse About Sailor’s Chanties (Occasional Papers in Folklore) Gibb Schreffler 2018

Jerzy Brzezinski (polacco d’origine scozzese d’adozione) nel suo sito web https://traditionalshanties.com/ esplora (dal 2011) le fonti autentiche dei canti marinareschi originali con testi e spartito e tracce sonore ricostruite dall’artista stesso tramite il suo canale Youtube.
È un prolifico interprete di canti marinareschi tradizionali, sostenendo che per cantarli bisogna comprendere a fondo il lavoro che il marinaio svolgeva originariamente sulla nave.

Un’altra raccolta -ancorché piccola- viene dallo shantyman John Short (1839-1933) di Watchet (Somerset, Inghilterra) così come trascritta da Cecil Sharp nel 1914.
Tom e Barbara Brown di Combe Martin scoprirono l’eredità del marinaio, il manoscritto di Cecil Sharp nel “Vaughan Williams Memorial Library” e diedero inizio al progetto Short Sharp Shanties per registrare tutte le canzoni di John Short interpretate da vari artisti (una sessantina circa di canti distribuiti in tre volumi).
SHORT SHARP SHANTIES

STANLEY SLADE – Bristol Shellback Shantyman: 28 canti marinareschi registrati negli anni 50 da Peter Kennedy e pubblicato nel 1975 su audiocassetta per la Folktrax

Una grande rivalutazione di questi canti è avvenuta poi più recentemente con la produzione in versione piratesca del famosissimo videogioco Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag (2013); la trama è un’intricata vicenda basata sui ricordi del pirata Edward Kenway  ed è ambientata nel mare dei Caraibi in un arco storico che va dal 1715 al 1721.

Anche la saga “Pirates of the Caribbean” (Pirati dei Caraibi)  ha  ridestato un grande interesse sui canti dei pirati e gli ideatori della produzione hanno coinvolto un gran numero di artisti folk-rock  per il rilascio di ben due compilation.

Ma se siete capitati qui per caso e non sapete se vi piacciono i canti marinareschi (sea shanties), guardatevi i video di Brian of Holcombe– Shantyman: Approfondimenti personali sul patrimonio marittimo, canti di marinai e pirati, tradizioni del West Country e vecchi e amati canti marinareschi perfetti per le serate nei pub e ai festival.

Con Shanty of the Week Seán Dagher inizia a pubblicare sul suo canale You Tube, a poco mesi dallo scoppio della pandemia di covid, uno shanty a settimana.
Seán Dagher è un musicista con un curriculum impressionante. Arrangiatore e compositore di musica popolare e classica: celtica, barocca, medievale, araba, franco-canadese. Eppure lo trovi che suona e canta in un pub irlandese con l’anima di uno shantyman.

ASSASSIN’S CREED: BLACK FLAG & ROGUE
ROGUES GALLERY & SON OF ROGUES GALLERY
Sea Songs & Shanties (La Nef)
SHORT SHARP SHANTIES
A-Z list WHALING SONGS

• ABEL BROWN THE SAILOR
• ABOARD THE KANGAROO
• A Coolie Is Nobody
• Across the Line/Sailor’s Way
• Across the rockies
• ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN
• ADIEU SWEET LOVELY NANCY
• ADMIRAL BENBOW
• AILEIN DUINN
• ALL FOR ME GROG
• A LONG TIME AGO (Noah’s Ark Shanty)
• A HUNDRED YEARS AGO (A long time ago)
• A-ROVING ( Maid of Amsterdam/Plymouth)
• ARABELLA
• AWEIGH SANTY ANNO -We’re bound for Californi-o
• As off to the south’ard we go/
  Heave Away Cheerily O
• ASSHOLE RULES THE NAVY
• BÁIDIN FHEILIDHMIDH
• (the) Baleaena
• Baltimore/Wir fahr’n nach Baltimore
• BALTIMORE WHORE
• BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
• BANKS OF SACRAMENTO/CALIFORNIA
• BANKS OF SACRAMENTO (John Short)
• (Dirty) BANKS OF SACRAMENTO
• BARNACLE BILL THE SAILOR
• BARNEY BUNTLINE
• Barrack Street
• (The) Bigler /The Bigler’s Crew
• Billy Boy
• BILLY RILEY
• BLACK BALL LINE
• BLOOD RED ROSES
• BLOW AWAY THE MORNING DEW
• BLOW BOYS BLOW
• BLOW BULLIES BLOW
• BLOW THE MAN DOWN
• BLOW THE WIND SOUTHERLY
• BOLD PRINCESS ROYAL
• BOLD RILEY
• BONEY WAS A WARRIOR
• BONNY LADDIE
• BOSTON COME-ALL-YE
• BOUND TO AUSTRALIA
• Bound to California
• BRING ‘EM DOWN
• BULGINE RUN
• BULLY BOAT (RANZO RAY)
• BULLY IN THE ALLEY
• BRAW SAILIN’ ON THE SEA
• Can of Grog (Charles Dibdin)
• Can’t You Dance the Polka?
• CAN’T YE HILO
• CAPE CODE GIRLS
• (A) CAPITAL SHIP (“Walloping Window Blind”)
• CAPTAIN KIDD
• CAPTAIN WARD
• CAROLINE AND HER YOUNG SAILOR BOLD
• CHANTEY OF NOAH AND HIS ARK
• CHEERILY MAN
• CHINESE BUMBOAT MAN
• COAL BLACK ROSE
• COASTS OF HIGH BARBARY
• COME ROLL ME OVER
• CONGO RIVER
• CONNEMARA CRADLE SONG
• CROSSING THE BAR
• CRUEL LOWLAND MAID
• CRUEL SHIP’S CAPTAIN
• DAN DAN
• DARK EYED SAILOR
• DEAD HORSE
• DERBY RAM
• DERELICT (Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest)
• Dixie!
• DONKEY RIDING
• DOODLE LET ME GO
• Do Let Me Lone Susan/Hooraw me Looloo Boys (Gels)
• DO ME AMA
• DON’T FORGET YOUR OLD SHIPMATES
• DREADNOUGHT
• DROWNED LOVERS (Constant Lovers)
• (The) Drummer and the Cook
• DRUNKEN SAILOR
• DYING SAILOR TO HIS SHIPMATES
• EARLY IN THE MORNING (So early in the morning)
• EBENEZER
• Eki Dumah
• ELIZA LEE
• ERIE CANAL
• ESSEQUIBO RIVER
• FAIR SUSAN I LEFT
• FAREWELL LOVELY NANCY
• Farewell to Grog (Caspar Schenk)
• FATHOM THE BOWL
• FEAR A’ BHÀTA (My Boatman)
• FEMALE RAMBLING SAILOR
• FIRE DOWN BELOW
• FIRESHIP
• FISH IN THE SEA
• FLYING CLOUD
• Frozen in Frobisher Bay
• GALLANT FRIGATE AMPHITRITE
• Gals o’ Chile (Timme Heave-O, Hang Her, Hilo!)
• Ged a Sheòl Mi Air M’ Aineol
• GET ALONG DOWN BUDDY
• GET UP, JACK! JOHN, SIT DOWN
• Gimmie De Banjo
• Girl in Portland Street/ A Fal-De-Lal-Day shanty
• GIRLS OF DUBLIN TOWN (The Harp without the Crown)
• Girl With The Blue Dress
• GOLDEN VANITY (Chid ballad #286)
• GOODBYE FARE THEE WELL
• Goodbye My Love Goodbye
• GOOD MORNING, LADIES ALL
• Good Night Ladies
• GOOD SHIP VENUS
• GO TO SEA NO MORE/Off to sea once more
• GREY FUNNEL LINE
• Grog Time o’Day (sea shanty)
• HARBOUR LE COU
• Handy Bandy Barque/The Campañero
• HANDY ME BOYS/GIRLS
• HANDSOME CABIN BOY
• HANGING JOHNNY
• Haul Away Boys!
• HAUL AWAY JOE
• HAULEY HAULEY HO
• HAUL ON THE BOWLINE
• HEAVE AWAY, BOYS
• HEAVE AWAY CHEERILY
• HEAVE AWAY MY JOHNNY/JOHNNIES FAMILY
  • Heave away we’re all bound to go (Irish emigrant)
  • Heave away, my Johnny boy we’re all bound to go (whaling shanty)
  • Heave away me bully boys, we’re all bound to go (John Short)
  • Heave away, my Johnnie boys, we’re all bound away (american sailor)
  • Heave away, my Johnnie boys, we’re all bound away (english sailor)
  • Heave away me jolly boys, we’re all bound away (Canada)
• HEAVE ME BOYS AWAY
• Hello Somebody
• HENRY MARTIN  (Child ballad #250)
• HIGH BARBARY
• HI HO COME ROLL ME OVER
• HILO JOHNNY BROWN (Stand to Yer Ground)
• HILO SOMEBODY
• Ho for California
• HOG-EYE MAN
• HOIST THE COLOURS
• HOLY GROUND
• HOLY GROUND ONCE MORE
• HOME BOYS HOME
• Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare Thee Well)
• Homeward Bound (Oh, We are Homeward Bound Today)
• HULLABALOO BELAY
• Hurrah Sing Fare Ye Well
• IRISH ROVER
• I’M BOUND AWAY
• In Cam’eltoon Once More
• I WILL SET MY SHIP IN ORDER
• JACKAROE (Jack Monroe)
• Jack-All-Alone
• JACK TAR ON SHORE
•  Jenny/Jamboree (Jinny Keep Yer Ringtail Warm/Jenny, Get Your Oatcake Done)
• John Brown’s Body
• John Bull
• JOHN CHEROKEE
• JOHN COTTON (Hervé Guillemer)
• JOHN DAMERAY
• JOHN KANAKA
• JOHNNY BOKER
• Johnny Come-A-Long
• JOHNNY COME DOWN TO HILO/Johnny Walk Along to Hilo (poor old Man)
• JOHNNY’S GONE TO HILO
• Johnny Todd (forebitter)
• JOHNSON GIRLS
• Larry Marr/The Big Five-Gallon Jar/Sound the Jubilee
• LASS OF SWANSEA TOWN
• (the) Last shanty (Tom Lewis)
• LEAVE HER JOHNNY (TIME FOR US TO LEAVE HER)
• LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL
• Little Ball o’ Yarn
• LITTLE BILLEE
• LITTLE SALLY RACKET (HAUL HER AWAY)
• LIVERPOOL JUDIES
• LIVERPOOL PACKET
• LIMEJUICE SHIP
• Little Ball o’ Yarn
• LIZA LEE (Yankee John, Stormalong)
• Louisiana
• LORD FRANKLIN
• LOVELY ON THE WATER
• LOWLANDS AWAY
• LOWLAND LOW
• LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND
• LUCY LONG
• MAGGIE MAY
• MAID ON THE SHORE
• MAID OF AMSTERDAM
• MAID THAT’S DEEP IN LOVE
• Married to a Mermaid
• MARY ANN
• Mister Stormalong
• Mobile Bay /John, Come Tell Us As We Haul Away
• Mother Carey’s
• MR. TAPSCOTT
• Mudder Dinah/Old Mother Dinah/Sing, Sally O!
• MY JOLLY SAILOR BOLD
• MY SON JOHN
• NELSON’S BLOOD
• NEW YORK GIRLS
• NOAH’S ARK SHANTY
• No more auction block
• Off to Sea Once More
• Oh California
• OH NO! WE NEVER MENTION HIM/HER
• Oh Susanna
• Oh, Aye, Rio
• OLD BILLY RILEY
• Old Moke Picking on the Banjo
• OLD SWANSEA TOWN ONE MORE
• ONE MORE DAY
• ONE SPRING MORNING
• Opsang For Brasiliefareren /Rio Grande
• ORANGE CLAW HAMMER
• ORÓ, SÉ DO BEATHA ‘BHAÍLE (GRANUAILE)
• Outward and Homeward Bound
• PADDY DOYLE’S BOOTS
• PADDY LAY BACK
• PADDY WEST
• PADDY WORKS ON THE RAILWAY
• PADSTOW’S FAREWELL
• Pass Around the Grog/ Padstow Drinking Song
• PAY ME MY MONEY DOWN
• PIRATE JENNY
• POLLY ON THE SHORE
• Poor Lucy Anna
• POOR OLD HORSE (Dead Horse)
• PRESS GANG (MAN O WAR)
• PRETTY NANCY OF YARMOUTH
• Pull down below
• Put Yer Shoulder Next to Mine and Pump Away
• RAMBLING SAILOR
• RANDY DANDY-O
• RANZO RAY (The bully boat is coming)
• RATCLIFF HIGHWAY
• Rise Me Up from Down Below
• RIO GRANDE
• ROLL ALABAMA
• ROLL AND GO ..a long time ago
• ROLL AND GO (Sally Brown)
• ROLL AND GO.. Tommy’s on the topsail yard!
• ROLL BOYS ROLL 
• ROLLER BOWLER
• ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI
• ROLLING HOME
• Rolling home by the silver moon
• ROLL THE COTTON DOWN
• Roll the Woodpile Down
• ROSABELLA
• ROSEMARY LANE
• ROUND THE CORNER SALLY
• ROW BULLIES ROW
• ROW BULLY BOYS
• RUBEN RANZO (Renzo)
• RUNNING DOWN TO CUBA
• SAID JOHNNY TO MOLLY
• SAILBOAT MALARKAY
• SAILING FOR THE LOWLANDS LOW
• SAILOR BOY (SWEET WILLIAM)
• Sailor’s Alphabet
• SAILOR’S GRAVE
• Sailor’s way/Across the line
• SAILOR LADDIE
• SALLY BROWN (spend my money)
• SALLY BROWN (folk revival)
• Saltpetre shanty/Slav Ho
• SALT HORSE (SAILOR’S GRACE)
• SAM’S GONE AWAY
• Sandy boy
• SANTY ANNA
• SAUCY SAILOR BOY
• SEA-FEVER
• Serafina
• SHALLOW BROWN
• (THE) SHAVER
• SHENANDOAH
• SHIP IN DISTRESS
• SHORT JACKET
• Sing A Song Blow-Along O!
• SINKING IN THE LONESOME SEA
• Sister Susan/Shinbone Al
• Skipper Jan Rebek
• SKYE BOAT SONG
• SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• SPANISH LADIES
• Squall in the morning
• Stately Southerner/Yankee Man-of War
• STORMALONG JOHN
• Stormy Weather Boys
• Strike the Bell, Second Mate
• Sugar in the Hold
• SWEET AND LOW (lullaby)
• Sweet Nightingale
• SWEET TRINITY
• SWEET ROSEANNA
• TARPAULIN JACKET
• TEN STONE
• TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY
• Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A’ Chuain (Jamie’s on the stormy sea)
• Three Score and Ten
• Tiddy High O!
• TOM BAWCOCK EVE
• Tom Bowling
• TOMMY’S GONE TO ILO
• Tommy’s Gone (Tommy’s Gone Away)
• TOM’S GONE TO HILO
• TOM’S GONE TO HILO (whaler shanty)
• TRIM RIGGED DOXY
• TURKISH REVERIEVAN DIEMEN’S LAND
• VAN DIEMEN’S LAND (forebitter)
• Walkalong, My Rosie
• Walkalong, Miss Susiana Brown
• Walkalong, You Sally Brown
• Way me Susiana
• WEARY WHALING GROUNDS
• WE BE THREE POOR MARINERS
• WE’LL RANZO WAY (Huckleberry hunting)
• WHERE AM I TO GO M’JOHNNIES
• WHIP JAMBOREE
• WHISK(E)Y JOHNNY
• WILD GOOSE SHANTY
• WILLIE TAYLOR (murder ballad)
• WINDY OLD WEATHER
• WON’T YOU GO MY WAY?
• WORST OLD SHIP
• YALLOW GALS (IRISH GIRL)
• Yankee John Stormalong
• YARMOUTH TOWN
• YELLER GALS (doodle let me go)
• YE MARINERS ALL

CANTI MARINARESCHI BRETONI E FRANCESI

(Le) 15 avril
Adieu foulard adieu madras
Ali Alo (vedi (Le) Capitaine de Saint-Malo)
Allons à Messine
À mon cotre Le Négrier (Tristan Corbière)
Allons à Messine
Amsterdam (Jacques Brel)
Brave marin revient de guerre/Le Retour Du Marin
As-tu connu le père Lancelot/Winslow?
(Le) brick-goélette
(Le) Capitaine de Saint-Malo
C’est en Passant sur l’ pont de Morlaix
(La) chaloupe à l’eau
(La) complainte des terr’-neuvas (Gaston Couté)
(La) complainte du gars Mathurin
(La) courte paille/Il était un Petit Navire
(Le) crime de la rue Suffren
(La) Danaè
Derriere chez nous y a-z’un petit bois
Encore un coup, Laoura
En revenant de la pêche d’Islande
(La) femme du président
(La) femme en caoutchouc
(Les) filles de La Rochelle
(Le) gabier noir (Michel Tonnerre)
(Le) Gendarme de Redon
(Le) Grand Coureur
Gwerz Penmarc’h
Hardi les gars, vire au guindeau/Et Nous Irons a Valparaiso
Hisse et ho, Santiano!
Hourra Mes Boués Hourra
Leis an lurgainn
Lulu de Nantes (mazurca)
Jean-François de Nantes
Madame Thérèse ne rit plus
(Le) maître à bord
(La) Margot
Marin de groix/Les trois marins de Groix
(Le) marinier de Couëron
Pardon Sant-Gwildo (Gilles Servat)
Passant Par Paris
(Le) père Winslow 
Petit navire d’Espagne
Quand La Boiteuse Va-T-Au Marche
Quinze marins (Michel Tonnerre)
(Le) trente et un du mois d’aout
Tri martolod

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