Favorite sea Shanties

[Vinny&Shawn]

Does anyone have any links to some sea shanties and related music??

[Vince Brennan]

http://www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/All_for_Me_Grog.shtml

[schoonerpacket]

The best rendition of South Australia I have yet heard. Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUqeDPZZ80

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

One of my favourites from a great traditional singer, Alan Mills. He recorded many of the great traditional eastern folk songs of Canada on Folkways records in the 50's.

The Southern Cross was a sealing ship lost with all hands the spring of 1911.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V5TXLgoj24

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

And this one, which I love dearly....

The Star of Logey Bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-tNLfALCbw


I used to sing these old songs many many years ago. A wonderful tribute to the people of our maritime provinces. I wrote some too... funny how time gets away from you on these things.

I also recommend Harry Robertsons "Little Pot stove" Archie Fishers "Final trawl" Alan Mills version of "The old Polynia"

Here is a decent version of "Little Pot stove"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYc0jbnrfBo&feature=related

[boylesboats]

Have ya tried Shifty Sailors (http://www.shiftysailors.net/disco.htm)? There some sound bytes in their site to hear them.. They don't sound too bad..

[peter radclyffe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvWNcTGDP4

[Vinny&Shawn]

Thanks everyone, we will absorb your contributions, Shawn and I would like to try playing some renditions of some simple songs!!

[Peerie Maa]

This is my favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6KY_O693w

[rbgarr]

This is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU

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Correction! I thought the topic was 'Favorite sex Shanties'.

Never mind. ;)

[Thorne]

Mudcat is the great-granddaddy of folk music websites. Try the various search tools for a wonderful selection of lyrics -- and often MIDI tunes.

Select DT rather than FORUM, as the latter is best reserved for finding songs with slightly different lyrics/names than you remember...
http://www.mudcat.org/@AdvSuperSearch.cfm

I just loaded a bunch of folksong and chanty lyrics onto my iPhone using Evernote to store the lyrics copied from Mudcat.

[wizbang 13]

that would be "chanties" I hate tem all, except for boats called "Chantyman"

[PLyTheMan]

All the sea shanties I know are Irish, though most of them are pretty common and I'm sure you can find twenty versions of each.

The Pogues
Greenland Whale Fisheries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtdnJBQyQJU)
Sea Shanty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeCyR-ytD5U)
Thousands Are Sailing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-OnS3LPt0w)
Irish Rover (with the Dubliners!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au30c9ZMIPg)

The Dubliners
The Leaving of Liverpool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdKAuIkJCWs)
The Fiddler's Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whbpYwk680)
Go To Sea No More (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kbfM2C_XQU)
The Irish Navy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II5tqdp-JUk)
Net Hauling Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYUr1Is1tg)
All For Me Grog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CCq2qvslCM)(Apparently a British marching song? Close enough imo)

Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Santy Anno (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II5tqdp-JUk)

Jerry Garcia and David Grisman
Jack A Roe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svsJg07fNCg)

Not so traditional...

Flogging Molly
Cruel Mistress (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYwf69AAyXU)
The Salty Dog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NW29q6C4Do) (made it pretty far before we hit Pirates of the Carribean clips)

Dropkick Murphys
Shipping up to Boston (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw) (The lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie for what it's worth...)

Jethro Tull
The Flying Dutchman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udOLEzADVog) (Lots of nice old pictures of boats)
The Whaler's Dues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baM62gOuqg8)

Tom Waits
Singapore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnBzDD_O1Fg)

The Decemberists
(This band kind of annoys me, but this song got stuck in my head when I heard it on the radio and seems applicable)
The Mariner's Revenge Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sw61oITuts)

Okay, I'm spent. I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting but until I think of them this'll do...

[jimkeen]

Not all are Irish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQzVhVZvdn4

[bljones]

"French Perfume" and "Boat Like Gideon Brown" by Great Big Sea.

[wizbang 13]

lectrc windlass kill de chantey

[schoonerpacket]

Who can forget Barrets Privateers? A Neo chanty!

[Concordia 33]

How about the Stan Rogers version of the Wreck of the Mary Ellen Carter

[CByrneiv]

I'm a big fan of Wylde Nept (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Wylde+Nept&aq=f). Their renditions of "John Kanak" (aka John Kanakanaka), "Strike the Bell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvOiNUD7DA&feature=related)", "Haul away Joe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb7KWIvgTDw)" are pretty good modern renditions of sea shanties.

I can't find a vid of them doing "Kanakanaka" unfortunately, nor any I particularly like on youtube.

[PatrickXavier]

If you really want to pin listeners' ears back, try anything from this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YQ6GT5Y1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[Michael D. Storey]

How about the Stan Rogers version of the Wreck of the Mary Ellen Carter
Or Fogarty's Cove, or Athens Queen or Nightengale.....

[TimH]

There is a great one in this movie. Havent been able to find out more about it though.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PZSGAESFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[Vinny&Shawn]

We are still enjoying all the posts, it amazes me where each link will lead you! Lots of fun and good listening. Thanks Much

[timfish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3VmwODZkVU

[Vince Brennan]

Thanks everyone, we will absorb your contributions, Shawn and I would like to try playing some renditions of some simple songs!!

Playing on which instruments?

Makes a difference.

[purri]

Anyone mention the "Good Ship Venus" or is that uncharted waters?

[CByrneiv]

Anyone mention the "Good Ship Venus" or is that uncharted waters?

If you want to get into Filk... oh lord...

[5by5]

John Kraus has a nice collection of shanties done in rollicking up-tempo style. He calls it anti-folk.

I first heard John sing shanties on board the Sprit of Dana Point an 110' schooner at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA. John was the first mate and he joined us with several other crewmen for a couple of nights of songs and stories while we were sailing around Catalina Island on a trip with some elementary school kids from the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning in Denver, CO.

It was a great experience and not long after he cut this CD.

http://www.tradebit.com/usr/music/covers/vol4/j/o/johnkraus/johnkraus.jpg

http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/2120850-john-kraus

HH

[L.W. Baxter]

I'm partial to the Jimmy Driftwood album Driftwood at Sea. I kept that record in regular rotation when I was a kid.

There's none of those recordings on the internet that I can find. But here I am playing What could I do? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efqZiyly9o) on the uke a little while back. I believe I have the distinction of being the only one to post that particular tune on u-tube, which makes it extra spatial.

[purri]

the captain's daughter Nora
was swimmin in tha water
when squeals revealed that eels
had found her ..........................


thongs