Sailor song : the shanties and ballads of the high seas

Smyth, Gerry, 1961- author.

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"Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music's rhythms are designed to galvanize the group effort of heaving, pushing, and pulling to weigh anchor, wind rope around a capstan, or set sail. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside...

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ISBN:

9780295747286

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

THE SHANTIES: 1. Across the Western Ocean
2. A-Roving
3. The Banks of the Sacramento
4. The Black Ball Line
5. Blood-Red Roses
6. Blow the Man Down
7. Boney Was a Warrior
8. Bully in the Alley
9. Can't You Dance the Polka?
10. Cheer'ly Man
11. Clear the Track, Let the Bullgine Run
12. The Dead Horse
13. Drunken Sailor
14. Fire Down Below
15. Goodbye, Fare-Ye-Well
16. Hanging Johnny
17. Haul Away, Joe
18. Haul on the Bowline
19. The Hog-Eye Man
20. John Kanaka
21. Johnny Boker
22. Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
23. Liverpool Judies
24. Lowlands Away
25. Paddy Doyle's Boots
26. Paddy, Lay Back
27. Reuben Ranzo
28. Rio Grande
29. Roll, Alabama, Roll
30. Sally Brown
31. Santiana
32. Shallow Brown
33. Shenandoah
34. So Handy, My Girls
35. South Australia
36. Stormalong John
37. Tom's Gone to Hilo
38. We're All Bound to Go
39. Whip Jamboree
40. Whisky Johnny
THE BALLADS AND SONGS: 1. The Banks of Newfoundland
2. Canadee-i-o
3. Do Me Ama
4. The Dreadnought
5. The Flying Cloud
6. Go to Sea Once More
7. High Barbaree
8. The Leaving of Liverpool
9. Maggie May
10. Spanish Ladies
ESSAYS: Collectors and Editors
Music and the Sea
Themes and Dreams
Sailortown
Bawdy
Folk or Fake?
Stan Hugill
(Rock ǹ') Roll and Go
The Shanty Today

Control Number:

3046826

Other Authors:

Hannah, Jonny, illustrations

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