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Sea Songs and Shanties

W.B. Whall: Sea Songs and Shanties

Sea Songs and Shanties
collected by Captain W.B. Whall
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguuson, Ltd., first edition 1910
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguuson, Ltd., sixth edition 1927
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguuson, Ltd., sixth edition, reprinted 1986
ISBN 085174 181 9

The Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers in the sixth edition of the book.

  1. Shenandoah (Roud 324)
  2. Adieu to Maimuna (Roud 8226)
  3. Homeward Bound (Roud 1104)
  4. Rolling Home (Roud 4766)
  5. Doo Me Ama (Roud 511; Laws K40)
  6. Farewell and Adieu (Roud 687)
  7. Sling the Flowing Bowl (Roud 24416)
  8. Blow, ye Winds, in the Morning (Roud 2012)
  9. Unmooring (Roud 8227)
  10. Hanging Johnny (Roud 2625)
  11. The Female Smuggler (Roud 1200)
  12. The Voice of Her I Love (Roud 8228)
  13. Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze (Roud 2016)
  14. Will Watch (Roud 1617)
  15. Shannon and Chesapeake (Roud 1583; Laws J20)
  16. Can’t You Dance the Polka? (Roud 486)
  17. Across the Western Ocean (Roud 8234)
  18. Bound to the Rio Grande (Roud 317)
  19. We’re All Bound to Go (Roud 616)
  20. The Plains of Mexico (Roud 207; Henry H496)
  21. Haul Away Joe (Roud 809)
  22. Lowlands (Roud 681; Henry H469)
  23. A-Roving (Roud 649; G/D 7:1479)
  24. Reuben Ranzo (Roud 3282)
  25. Sally Brown (Roud 2628)
  26. Poor Paddy Who Works on the Railway (Roud 208)
  27. Blow the Man Down (Roud 2624)
  28. The Whale (Roud 347; Laws K21; G/D 1:9)
  29. Blow, Boys, Blow (Roud 703; G/D 1:2)
  30. The Fishes (Roud 472)
  31. Admiral Benbow (Roud 3141)
  32. Whisky (Roud 651)
  33. High Barbaree (Roud 134; Laws K33; G/D 1:38)
  34. Early in the Morning (Roud 322; G/D 1:4)
  35. Cheer’ly Men (Roud 395)
  36. So Handy, My Girls (Roud 814)
  37. The Hog-Eye Man (Roud 331)
  38. The Saucy Arethusa (Roud 12675)
  39. The Black Ball Line (Roud 2623)
  40. Challo Brown (Roud 2621)
  41. Stormalong (Roud 216)
  42. Stand to Your Ground (Roud 8229)
  43. The Buffalo (Roud 1026; G/D 6:1103)
  44. Paddy Doyle (Roud 4695; Henry H53c)
  45. Boney (Was a Warrior) (Roud 485)
  46. We’ll Ranzo Way (Roud 328)
  47. Shakings (Roud 8230)
  48. John’s Gone to Hilo (Roud 481; Henry H53d)
  49. Goodbye, Fare You Well (Roud 927; G/D 1:5; Henry H53a)
  50. Negro Songs
  51. The Banks of Sacramento (Roud 319)
  52. Clear de Track, Let de Bulgine Run (Roud 810)
  53. Jamboree (Roud 488)
  54. Cawsand Bay (Roud 22827)
  55. The Twenty-Fourth of February (Roud 951; G/D 1:40)
  56. The Dead Horse (Roud 3724)
  57. A Hundred Years Ago (Roud 926)
  58. Run, Let the Bulgine Run (Roud 4711)
  59. Dixie (Roud 8231)
  60. St. Helena Soldier (Roud 8232)
  61. O Fare You Well, My Bonny Young Girls! (Roud 8233)
  62. Johnny Boker (Roud 353)
  63. One More Day (Roud 704)
  64. Boston (Roud 613)