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Sea Songs & Shanties

Sea shanties and sea songs: work songs sung aboard boats to coordinate effort: hauling lines, weighing anchor, working the pumps, and rowing. Alongside these are maritime ballads, less call-and-response and stronger on the narrative.
29
Jan

AP News: Sea Shanties Are Having a Moment Amid Isolation of Pandemic

"If we can sing, it'll help us get through it, just like sailors did on the tall
1 min read
19
Jan

Boston Harbor

The Song This is a classic sea shanty that taps into a universal topic in worksongs - calling out a tyrannical
3 min read
05
Mar

Cape Cod Girls

1 min read
27
Mar

Essequibo River

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

Haul on the Bowline0:00/01×NASC Workshop - Haul on the Bowline0:00/01× Lyrics Haul on the bowline, the
2 min read
21
Mar

Hog's Eye Man

1 min read
04
Mar

Huckleberry Hunting

This is recorded with Edith Gawler, Elsie Gawler, and Ethan Tischler. February 2022 Huckleberry Hunting0:00/01× Oh, the boys
1 min read
20
May

NPR / Maine Public: Mainers Are Working To Give Historical Sea Chanties New Life

Ari Snider of Maine Public came out in spring 2019 to talk about sea shanties: where they came from, why
05
Mar

One More Day

Led by Bennett Konesni Sung by the Gawler Family: Ellen, John, Molly, Edith and Elsie Gawler One More Day0:00/
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

Traditional In this recording I chat for the first two minutes about developing your inner foghorn, how tags work to
3 min read
05
Mar

Roll The Woodpile Down

1 min read
21
Mar

Rolling Home to Old New England

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
25
Apr

The White Whale

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