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Songs specifically good for the oars. These are songs that work at rowing pace, whether you are in a peapod on Penobscot Bay with a buddy, a Cornish gig in the Scilly Isles with 6 friends, or a Bantry Bay Gig at the contest of seamanship with 10 others. Steady rhythm, strong melody, built for sustained effort on the water.
25
Mar

Dip Pull Swing

Video by Atlantic Challenge USA Director Arista Holden A simple rowing chant I use, built around the three-part stroke rhythm:
1 min read
27
Mar

Essequibo River

Essequibo River 0:00/220.9921× The other day at Bagaduce Music I had the good fortune of a student
3 min read
05
Mar

General Taylor (aka Stormy aka Walk Him Along)

DECDF Workshop 20260:00/01× I sing this slower while rowing than I do in a pub session on account
1 min read
07
Mar

Haul on the Bowline

One of the oldest and shortest of all sea shanties. "Haul on the Bowline" is a short-drag shanty,
2 min read
21
Mar

Hog's Eye Man

1 min read
05
Mar

One More Day

3 min read
05
Mar

Reuben Ranzo

3 min read
21
Mar

Roll and Go

2 min read
05
Mar

Roll Boys Roll - Sally Brown

2 min read
20
Apr

Roll the Old Chariot Along

3 min read
21
Mar

Rolling Home to Old New England

1 min read
21
Mar

Row On

1 min read
21
Mar

Santyanna

1 min read
04
Mar

Stormalong And Around We'll Go

1 min read
21
Mar

The Wellerman

2 min read
20
Mar

Walk Along Talk Along

A walking song / sea shanty from Carrie Grover, who walked from Halifax to New Brunswick to Maine with her father
1 min read