The perfect pocket reference for sea shanties and songs of the sea from the days of the great sailing ships. One hundred thirty traditional songs with music, arranged alphabetically and sized to conveniently fit in a coat pocket, sea bag, backpack, purse or back hip pocket.Easy to learn, these favorite songs can educate or entertain, or perhaps even accompany a working tall ship crew as they turn the capstan, haul on the bowline or splice the mainbrace.Work songs, play songs and all-around fun to sing songs ¿ for the sailor, singer and pirate in everyone.
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
SEA SHANTIES ARE MORE POPULAR NOW THAN EVER. NOW YOU CAN PLAY AND SING ALONG WITH THEM IN NO TIME! Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you ten of probably the most popular sea shanty songs that can be played on guitar. Play the chords and sing along with these wonderful songs from Sailors the world over. Sea Shanties For Easy Guitar offers you: All songs include lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Guitar chords and lyrics also provided in large easy to read text. The songs are all TAB'D out for you to play the melody. No sight reading skills needed. All ten songs are supported by free downloadable backing tracks and example rhythms for you to hear and learn to play from. Each song comes with a short background history. Help section for reading rhythms plus pages of extra chords for you to learn and play. SONGS INCLUDED: What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor The Wellerman Leave Her Johnny Leave Her Spanish Ladies Blow The Man Down South Australia A Drop Of Nelson’s Blood Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates Randy Dandy Oh The Banks Of Newfoundland
Whether for weavers at the handloom, labourers at the plough or factory workers on the assembly line, music has often been a key texture in people's working lives. This book is the first to explore the rich history of music at work in Britain and charts the journey from the singing cultures of pre-industrial occupations, to the impact and uses of the factory radio, via the silencing effect of industrialisation. The first part of the book discusses how widespread cultures of singing at work were in pre-industrial manual occupations. The second and third parts of the book show how musical silence reigned with industrialisation, until the carefully controlled introduction of Music while You Work in the 1940s. Continuing the analysis to the present day, Rhythms of Labour explains how workers have clung to and reclaimed popular music on the radio in desperate and creative ways.
A Classic Collection of Sea Songs, Shanties, and Work MusicTry your hand at some classic sea tunes, chanteys, and work songs with The Shanty Book, Part 2, a collection of 35 sea songs from Richard Runciman Terry first published in 1926. Sing along with some of the most famous as well as lesser known sea song titles, which were often also used as popular pub and drinking songs. Includes multi-part harmony and lyrics for each piece, which are essential for a rhythmic work song!In this volume, Terry provides a brief synopsis on the included shanty tunes, along with a description of shanties in general, the history of the genre, and the methods on how he collected the tunes for this volume. Printed in full 8.5 x 11" format, 35 different sea songs are included, which sample popular windlass, capstan, halliard, fore-sheet or sweating-up, and bunt shanties of the age:The Black Ball LineOne More DayA-roving (I)A-roving (II)The Banks of SacramentoThe ShaverPaddy Works on the RailwayCan't You Dance the Polka?John Brown's BodyWhoop JamboreeMy JohnnyThe Drummer and the CookMiss Lucy LongDo Let Me GoBlow Ye Winds of MorningFire Down BelowShallow BrownA Long Time AgoWon't You Go My Way?Hilo, John BrownRoll the Cotton DownRound the Corner, SallyThe Bully BoatMy Tommy's Gone AwaySing Fare You WellO Billy RileyTime for Us to Leave HerLizer LeeA Hundred Years AgoWalk Him Along, JohnnyHilondayStormalongSo Handy, Me GelsThe Sailor Likes His Bottle, OHaul Away, Joe (II)A part of the Lyric Legacy Classics CollectionThis Lyric Legacy Historic Edition reprint of The Shanty Book - Part 2 (1926) is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Musicians can enjoy this Historic Edition reissue for generations to come and learn from its timeless musical content.
In 1795 the rugged and dangerous Mississippi Territory is open for exploration and settlement by the rare few who have the courage and determination to survive. When pioneers Sam'l Dabney and his sister, Honoria, lose their parents in a Creek attack and must leave Georgia to begin new lives, they head for French-held Louisiana in order to find "Lock Poka", which in Choktaw means "here we rest" or "promised land". Sam Dabney is a man of rare strength and size and resolute spirit — a larger-than-life hero who rises by his boldness and acumen from being "ol' man Dabney's brat" to a man of consequence in the settling, trading, and armed protection of the land. Sam, his sister Honoria, his wife Donna, and his Choktaw companion, Tishomingo, form the core of this panoramic saga — Sam is an opportunist and is quick to take risks in order to establish himself and support his family; Donna, devoted but delicate, finds her life threatened by fever, but helps Sam guard a dangerous secret; Honoria, beautiful, unscrupulous and greedy, makes money her only standard; and Tishmingo works to develop an English alphabet for the Cherokee language and fulfills a debt of hatred. The story also teems with historical characters, Indians, renegades, politicians, pioneers, slaves and richly portrayed incidental figures as well as facts about French, Spanish, British and American interests that enhance or impede progress on every page. Oh Promised Land is the first book in a five novel saga of the unforgettable Dabney family. A robust and entertaining picture of a period (1795-1817) meticulously researched and convincingly portrayed.
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.
