Music & Shanties
Nautical Singing Traditions, Work Songs, Shanties, Lyrics, Music & Instruments.
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Arrr... I was minding my own business the other day, when I started singing the lyrics to R.E.M.'s "Stand" by accident. Worried that I was being non pirate-like (because pirates don't usually sing 80s pop songs), I started to examine the lyrics carefully. What I discovered astounded me: "Stand in the place where you live Now face North Think about direction? Wonder why you haven't before If you are confused check with the sun Carry a compass to help you along." If that's not sheer pirate code, then I don't know what is! Perhaps these are the introductory directions to a hidden treasure Michael Stipe burried somewhere in between his…
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If you are in the Seattle area this comming Saturday evening at the Center for Wooden Boats Pint and Dale will be doing the first of this seasons Maritime concerts.... The second Friday of each month is the Northwest Seaports Shanty Sing, I mention it this month because the upcomming Shantyman will be none other than Hank Cramer....who has been Shantyman aboard the Lady Washington and other Tall Ships... If you are in the area and want to know how to get to where we will be drop me a pm and I will gladly get you to us. dR
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upload a sea shanie song
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upload a sea shantie song for me to download errr :)
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MALLORY AND McCALL NEED URGENT HELP!!!!! This is really tough news right around Christmas. Faire-folk and pirate musicians Mallory and McCall may be forced out of their house soon if we can't pull off a miracle. If you haven't been following what's going on with M&Mc, you can read various updates in the No Quarter Given email newsletter archives. Updates are in the Feb.14 and March 14 newsletters found here: http://www.noquartergiven.net/email2008a.htm And Aug. 12, 2008, found here: http://www.noquartergiven.net/email.htm Bob Brinkman's message below gives the current situation. If Jan and Mallory can't get current with their Wachovia mortgage by Dec. 28, the…
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Who was executed at Execution Dock on Wednesday, the 25th of November, 1696, being of Every’s crew; together with their Free Confession of their most Horrid Crimes. Well may the world against us cry; for these our deeds most base, For which alas! We now must die, death looks us in the face, Which is no more than what’s our due, since we so wicked were, As here shall be declar’d to you. Let pirates then take care. We with our comrades, not yet ta’en, together did agree, And stole a ship out of the Groyne, to roam upon the sea; With which we robb’d and plundered too, no ship that we did spare. Thus many a one we did undo. Let pirates then take care. Our ship being …
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Hello Pirates. I am organizing a great Pirates Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Please feel free to offer your show, reenactment or any other pirate activities to attract a LOT of people. They are waiting for you! Thanks. Lena.
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20,000 leagues inder the sea ain't exactly pirate material, BUT there is a lot of water and plunder and sea monster goins on... Anywho, there is song sung by Kirk Douglas' character Ned Land with a turtle-shell banjo and a barking seal, I think it's called Whale of a Tale. They even worked the tune into the score! Even though Ned sings this ditty about 87 times in the movie, I can't remember the middle part of the lyrics. Sure, I could look it up online, but I thought it would be more fun to ask me associates to provide the missin' words. Here goes: Got a whale of a tale to tell ya', lads, a whale of tale or two, 'bout a.... (da da dee dee da da doo, etc.)insert co…
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Thor's concertina be flat, sittin away in the cabin wit'out music to toot to. Where should a man look to find such a thing? Smee, Thor
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I'm bitten by the music bug and want to learn to play guitar. Funds bein' what they are, 'twill be a while afore I get started. Just wonderin' what instruments are played by those here and how'd you get started? Piratical or not...
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What'll we do with a drunken captain, Earl-aye in the morning? Lock him up with the gouvernor's daughter! Sling him in the long boat till he's sober! Take the Baby and call it Bo'sun! Take 'im and shake 'im, try an' wake 'im! Well, what shall we do?
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I be playin' the guitar and the sextant! so i is never bein' lost at seA! I HAVE A DIDGERIDOO BUT DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT.
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Whiskey-O Whiskey-o, Johny-o Rise her up from down below Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey-o Up aloft this yard must go John rise her up from down below Now whiskey is the life of man Always was since the world began Now whiskey gave me a broken nose And whiskey made me pawn me clothes Now whiskey is the life of man Whiskey from that old tin can I thought I heard the first mate say I treats me crew in a decent way A glass of whiskey all around And a bottle full for the shanty man (Spoken: Up she blew!)
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Ahoy to all ye shanty lovers! I be with a new crew o' pyrates formin' in the Baltimore-Washington locale. We be under full sail, firin' all guns, and flyin' the black flag. Pyrate clothes and reenactin' be fine endeavors, and that be fer certain, but we be primarily interested in singin'! And we be lookin' for like-minded brigands--voices 'n' instruments alike--to join our jolly band o' buccaneers. If ye be in the area, give us a hail.
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Here's a wonderful collection of folk songs, both ballads and shanties, that were sung by the sailors who worked the Great Lakes during the age of sail. The book includes descriptions of the lives of these sailors (who often also worked as lumberjacks in the winter). The book comes with an accompanying CD of field recordings from the 1930s of elderly sailors singing the songs they remember from their working days in the 19th century: http://wsupress.wayne.edu/glb/gtlakes/waltonwj.htm Cheers, Hester
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So like most of my more creative written work, this one started out with a bottle of Jameson's that quickly turned into Irish car bombs until my quartermaster and I started changing the words to one of our favorite Drop Kick Murphy's songs "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced". If you don't know the song it's basically a long list of pick up lines used in a bar to pick up women. This is what we have so far... I lead a Pirate Gang, were the most feared in the land, were wanted in both England and France. I sail through Beluga, To drink in Tortuga, With a line of lassies waiting for a chance. So come on my pretty, I'll make you feel witty. These other wenches mean nothing to m…
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There were three pirates a come to my door, And downstairs ran our lady, O! One sang high and another sang low, And the other sang bonny, bonny, Biscay, O! Then she pulled off her silk finished gown And put on hose of leather, O! Then with pistol n' sword went out our door, She's off with the wraggle taggle pirates, O! It was late last night, when my lord came home, Enquiring for his a-lady, O! The servants said, at every hand, She's gone with the wraggle taggle pirates, O! O rig for me my white sailed ship, Go and fetch me my cutlass, O! That I may sail and without fail, go after the wraggle taggle pirates, O! He sailed East and he sailed …
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(Excuse the long post but I believe it's all necessary information.) The following was an email I sent to Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket, Webmasters of the www.Talklikeapirate.com, in an attempt to find out more information about my current job. (I bolded and Italicized all the information relevant to my cause.) (Read on) "Gentlemen, While searching for information about pirates and pirate lifestyles on the internet, I came across your extremely intriguing site. I would first like to say that I appreciate your thoroughness. It’s refreshing given the kind of search this has been for me. I especially found helpful your “Pirate Links” section. Most of all…the majority …
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Thar be a song by the name of the Old Dun Cow that me ears have been craving. Do any of ye scabless scurvy infested dogs know of any dirty shameless pirate groups that sing a good version of it? I be liking the Bilge Pumps, and I be looking fer similar singing crews. YARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
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What instruments do you play or do you sing? I've just taken up the violin (less than a week, LOL) and before that played piano for years. But it has been 15 years since I gave up my last piano and my last lessons were in about 1978, so it's been a loooooooooong time! But I still remember how to read music and lo' n' behold, I've found a violin teacher who has turned out to be a pirate!!! She and her husband have both joined Tales of the Seven Seas and are all jazzed up to bring their instruments and along on the Valentines sail aboard the Royaliste. She's enthusiastic about teaching me lots of seafaring tunes once I'm far enough along to handle them. I've had two less…
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Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Rum! Can someone please finish the tune off? I'm not sure how it ends!
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I can't seem to find the full lyrics or a mp3 file, or any other media file for that matter... Could someone please help me?
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Ahhh.... more and more fun here. If you had a chance to have a collection of songs or a soundtrack for your or about your pirate persona... what songs would you have on that soundtrack or collection? I'd have more than one disc obviously. One or two that is lyrical songs and one of two that is Instrumental. The lyrical songs: It's My Life by Bon Jovi Blaze of Glory by Bon Jovi Dare by Stan Bush In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins Alcohol by Brad Paisley Sympathy For The Devil by Guns N Roses Surrender by KD Lang Instruments of Destruction by NRG Die Another Day by Madonna Could I Have This Kiss Forever by Enrique Iglesias & Whitney Houston Come Into…
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