A question about shanty lyrics

[Raginscotsman]

Does anyone know where I can find a good book of shanty lyrics. I know a few, I would like to know alot more, if anyone could help me out I'd me much obliged.

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[Coastie04]

There's always the classic "Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill. I also have a fun one by Douglas Morgan called "What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?" I love the quote on the cover:

"Now seamen who spent their time in cargo-carrying sailing ships never heard a decent shanty; the words which sailor John put to them when unrestrained were the veriest of filth."

-Master Mariner W. B. Whall

There's also a few websites out there including the following:

http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lists/alpha.html

http://www.contemplator.com/sea/

http://shanty.rendance.org/

Hope this helps.

Coastie

[Raginscotsman]

Thank you all for the help, I do have the book by Stan Hugill, it is very informative, but, it's light on lyric. Those websites will be a big help, thanks Coastie.

[Trapper]

Stan's got several different shanty books out there, by the way. Some with more lyrics than others.

William and Felicia's website www.pintndale.com, has a lot of lyrics, as does the Mudcat Cafe: http://www.mudcat.org/

If you email me your address offlist, I can send you a copy of "To Make the Welkin Ring", a book that we put together many, many years ago, full of lyrics.

Fair winds,

Trapper

[Rumba Rue]

There's a duo here in S. California that I occassionally play guitar with, Mallory and McCall. They've got a great songbook out, "Mallory and McCall's Irish Pub Songbook". Lots of good shanties in it.

You can get it from: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. , #4 Industrial Drive, Pacific, MO. 63069-0066, 1-800- 8-Mel Bay, or they have a website (I haven't been to it), www.melbay.com, email: email@melbay.com

Also, Christine Lampe who runs No Quarter Given has a songbook out with shanties. Just check out the site at www.noquartergiven.net

Hope this info might be of some help to you.

Rumba Rue

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