Music & Shanties
Nautical Singing Traditions, Work Songs, Shanties, Lyrics, Music & Instruments.
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Some of you may remember me. I've been trying to get as much information together about pirate music as I can so I can do justice to this music score. I have a question about instrumentation. I need to know either what kind of instruments the pirates played their sea shanties on or what kind of instruments just scream PIRATES! right now I'm taking a sea shantie and want to orchestrate it for small ensemble but I need to know what instruments I should assign to everyone. Either information would be helpful. Or if you have any advice I'd love that too! ~Drew
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I happen to be good friends with two young ladies and one gentleman who make up a band called Herot. They're currently working on their own cd which will include many great songs (one of which I wrote the lyrics to, but that's another story) but their first and biggest hit (at least to me and their relitivly small fanbase) is called Rageing Hunk Of Man Pirate, a tribute to everyone's favorite swaggering seaman, Jack Sparrow. Unfortunately, I have now way to allow you all to listen to the song, but here are the hilarious lyrics, as well as a picture I drew of the two females of the band (Aaron, the basist, had yet to join when this was drawn), Tortuga Tish and Red Handed …
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http://www.cdbaby/cd/savethewawona ave the Wawona, One Song at a Time is a collection of sea music and chanteys by some of the Northwest's finest musicians. They have generously donated these songs to this project, in the hope of raising awareness and money for needed repairs and restoration of the Schooner Wawona. You'll hear everyone from William Pint and Felicia Dale to Toucan Pirates to Tom Lewis, all performing the best maritime music you'll find anywhere, and all on one CD! Come listen to rousing sea chanteys, drinking songs, ballads and instrumentals, all music of the sea and sailors. When she was built in 1897, the sailing schooner Wawona was the largest three-…
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Thanks to the dedicated musicians that have played on the Wawona over the years, we are proud to offer a CD of songs donated by these musicians for the purpose of continuing the restoration of the Schooner Wawona. As the songs, production and materials have been donated, ALL monies raised will go to the Wawona. The musicians on this compilation include: William Pint & Felicia Dale The Cutters The Rounders (Hank Cramer and Steve Guthe) Broadside Spinnaker St. Elmo's Choir Chris Roe J.W. Sparrow Tom Lewis Coventry The Toucan Pirates Shifty Sailors Steve Lalor Victory Sings at Sea (featuring Bob Kotta) Sanger & Didele Dan Roberts Dan Maher This is …
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Just returned from the Escondido Faire, and heard these gals and (guy) dressed as a gal....really good pyratical sea shanties....a performer in the audience was taping them without their permission even.... New album due out shortly...they were selling a 4 song CD set... kinda raw but great harmony with cannon flare in the backround on the first song..... http://thedoxiechicks.3200bpm.com/ So that's my 2 cents of musical contribution fer now.... fer now...
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im looking for some fast punk rock pirate songs on the 7 seas..... ive been listening to Dropkick Murphys for quite some time now and just recently started listening to Flogging Mollys now i dont think the Flogging Mollys will beat the rapid speed of the Dropkicks but still very awesome... so im looking for band and their popular songs that i may be able to download
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I'm looking for fiddle tunes pirates may have played for work or pleasure. If notation can be provided all the better. Thanks :)
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Greetings all. Next summer my wife and I are running a Sea Shanty summer school on board a wooden 100year old 'small tall ship' off the Cornish Coast. We shall set sail from Plymouth, England and spend three days and nights at sea and pull into pubs for two evenings. The workshop leaders are Lester Simpson (Coope Boyes and Simpson) and Ian Woods (GMW). The boat is fully crewed and all meals are provided. The dates are June 6th-9th 2006 and bookings are now being taken. A deposit secures you one of ten limited places. The full price is £595stg all in. Please e-mail me for details.
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Eliza Lee Oh, the smartest packet you can find, Ah he, ah ho, are you most done? Is the fair "Rosalind" in the Blackwall line! So the clear the track, let the bulgine run, To my aye rig a jig in the low back car, Ah he, ha ho, are you most done? With Eliza Lee all on my knee, So clear the track, let the bulgine run. The fair "Rosalind" one bright summer's day, Ah he, ah ho, are you most done? Went sailing away far out over the bay, So the clear the track, let the bulgine run, To my aye rig a jig in the low back car, Ah he, ha ho, are you most done? With Eliza Lee all on my knee, So clear the track, let the bulgine run. The tiller one hand firmly grasp'd, …
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Here's a little backstory for this one... By Chrystofer & Andrixios Seljukroctonis; a filk to the tune of "Ballad of the Green Berets." It all began at Pennsic War one year, when Paval (a Calontir fighter) started duct-taping stuffed hamsters onto his sword-brothers' helms; and quickly degenerated from there. The song also scans to "March on Cambredth" by Phoenyx. (Which just shows you JUST what a warped universe we live in...) The Fighting Hamsters of Calontir Fighting hamsters from the sky Some will live and some will die Hamsters have nothing to fear, The fighting hamsters of Calontir Silver tape upon their backs A broadsword is all they lack Fifty …
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since the webmaster cant figure out whats wrong with that carnsarn videolink Ive taken matters into me own hads! arrrr! http://www.granddesignworkshop.com/Stan_Ro..._Privateers.mp3 if you really enjoyed that song PLEASE visit stans site and support his work and family. he passed on in 83 from a plane crash a great loss for all of us. http://www.stanrogers.net for a first album I HIGHLY recommend "Home in Halifax" also I wont be hosting this more than a week due to bandwidth limitations, sorry Fergal
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Er'e is one fer ya all. Me opes ya like it. It be called "A Sailors Loves" The maiden, oh, the maiden oh. The sailor loves the maiden, oh! So early in the morning, The sailor loves the maiden, oh! A maid that is young, A maid that is fair, A maid that is kind and pleasant, oh, So early in the morning, The sailor loves the maiden, oh! Tobacco, oh, tobacco, oh, The sailor loves tobacco, oh, So early in the morning, The sailor loves tobacco, oh. A packet of bird's-eye, Packet of cut A plug of hard tobacco, oh, So early in the morning, The sailor loves tobacco, oh. The bottle, oh, the bottle oh, The sailor loves the bottle, oh, So early in the morning Th…
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Sorry ta bother ye lads n' lasses, but I be needin the Lyrics to The Corsairs: The Green Album! I cant find it anywhere! YEAAARGH that makes me MAD!
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Whilst I can't take the credit fer pennin' this here fine tune...I felt the need t' be sharin' it...so 'ere it is. Enjoy it mates... Here be a little back story fer ya: "This song tells of a lavish ball at the castle of Cairrigh Muir, that was sabotaged by evil-minded pranksters. It involved three crucial elements: the punch being spiked with a potent aphrodisiac; painfully itchy rose-hip seeds being thrown on the dance-floor, where they were kicked up into the ladies' undergarments; and, at a crucial and premeditated moment, all the lights in the castle being extinguished. What followed next was, by all accounts of the day, 'an orgy of sich greet magnituid, that twenty…
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Sally Brown I love a maid across the water, Aye, aye, roll and go! She is Sal herself, yet Sally's daughter Spend my money on Sally Brown. Seven long years I courted Sally, Aye, aye, roll and go! She called me 'boy and Dilly Dally,' Spend my money on Sally Brown. Seven long years and she wouldn't marry, Aye, aye, roll and go! And I no longer cared to tarry, Spend my money on Sally Brown. So I courted Sal, her only daughter, Aye, aye, roll and go! For her I sail upon the water, Spend my money on Sally Brown. Sally's teeth are white and pearly, Aye, aye, roll and go! Her eyes are blue, her hair is curly, Spend my money on Sally Brown. The sweetest flowe…
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The Moonlight Original song by Cap'n Mac He sails into the night, and she prays he'll be all right. He's sailing for calcutta, a fortune there to find. As Storm clouds fill the sky, and lightning splits the night. The sea grows rough and stormy, as she stares into the night. Chorus Her heart starts beating fast, and she prays the storm will pass. She waits there in the moonlight, and braids her flowing hair. Lightning split the mast, and a fire grew strong and fast, The ship was doomed and sinking, The Captain stayed till last. He helped his crew to flee, and he made sure they were free, Before the ship could trap them, underneath the sea. Chorus Her heart …
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I'm addicted...someone help? Please? Cape Cod Girls Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs Haul away, haul away They brush their hair with codfish bones And we're bound away for Australia So heave away, me bully, bully boys Haul away, haul away Heave her up and don't you make a noise And we're bound away for Australia Cape Cod kids ain't got no sleds They slide down the hills on codfish heads Cape Cod girls ain't got no frills They tie their hair with codfish gills Cape Cod cats ain't got no tails They lost them all in the northeast gales
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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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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from some mill in Wisconson As the big freighters go it was bigger than most With a crew and the Captain well seasoned. Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms When they left fully loaded for Cleveland And la…
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Lemme tell you a little story about a man named Johnny Tarr He was a hard drinking son of a preacher, always at the bar Lager from the tap or shots of Paddy from the shelf He could open his throttle and throw backa bottl as quickas the devil himself ... Johnny Tarr! Word got around that Johnny Tarr was no pretender, From Clare to here they'd lock up the beer when Johnny went on a bender Down at Dickey Mack's, the Rising Sun, or at the Swan If he was drinking at seven by ten to eleven well all the booze woulb be gone! Johnny Tarr! Chorus: Even if you say it yourself, you wouldn't believe, And I wouldn't trust a person like me, if I were you I wasn't there, I swe…
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For Bob Kotta, chantey man extraordinaire, who crossed the Bar 5 years ago on April 19, and for Steve Guthe, chantey singer, great guy, part of Victory Sings at Sea, who just passed, I offer the song, "Heaven's a Bar" Heaven's a Bar Tim Laycock Heaven's a bar down by the dock Where the liquor is free they keeps a great stock There's always a place, always a smile For a sailor come home from sea For a sailor come home from sea The girls are all beauties they dance and they sing They'll treat an old tar like a lord or a king Heaven's a bar down by the dock Where there's liquor for all and it's free There in the snug drinking with me Shipmates return f…
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...a desperate and bloody sea-fight between Lieutenant Maynard and that notes pirate Captain Teach, commonly call'd by the name of Black-beard; Maynard had fifty men, thirty-five of which were kill'd and wounded in the action; Teach had twenty-one, most of which was kill'd and the rest carried to Virginia in order to take their Tryal. Will you hear of a bloody battle, lately fought upon the seas? It will make your ears to rattle and your admiration cease: Have you heard of Teach the rover, and his knavery on the main; How of gold he was a love, how he loved ill-got gain? When the act of grace appeared Captain Teach and all his men Unto Carolina steered, where they u…
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My FAVORITE band, FLOGGING MOLLY have a new cd out on Tues the 14th...and it's got PIRATES!!!! OH YEAH!!! If you haven't listened to these guys (and gal) you need to. It's the best and baddest Irish punk on the planet. I've been following them for awhile now, and they just get better and better. From time to time, they've flirted with the subject of piracy, mostly in the graphics of their shirts. But on the new cd they have at least 3 tracks I know of that are about pirates: Seven Deadly Sins Queen Anne's Revenge Tobacco Island (about Barbados) Wanna listen? Check it out HERE. Go to the Goodies area, for mp3 files of Seven Deadly Sins and QAR. Trust me, this group is…
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OK..i wrote this one meself. It aint very long 'er much of a story; more of a recognition type thing. Ill be apreciatin' your thoughts. I dont think it be very good but ill let yooz decide. Im tryin to think of a simple tune to be playin on me six-stringer.... the wind on these sails, the rum on our breathes, were riding this ship, to a valiant death ay, were jus pirates, not silly care-bears, old, dirty looters, with out any cares may the gods fergive us, o, have we sinned, we sold our souls, fer whiskey and gin!
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Cordingly, in "Under the Black Flag" states that Stevenson "---took the Dead Man's Chest from At Last by Charles Kingsley." Has anyone seen this book and know how it relates to the song? Many years ago I read an article, I no longer remember where, by a man who claimed to have tracked down the song's origin. He said that Dead Man's Chest was a tiny island in the Caribbean and that the song commemorates a shipwreck there, not a mutiny. After the wreck, the marooned crew got into the ship's cargo of rum. Some drank themselves to death, or killed each other in fights. When relief arrived, there were only fifteen survivors, thus: "drink and the devil had done for the rest."…
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