Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-Songs and Some Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail

by Stan Hugill

Overview

This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493068272
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	06/15/2022
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface xi

A Remembrance Stuart M. Frank xxix

Introduction - The Art of the Shanty Man 1

Part 1 Shanties telling of John's Shore Activities; of the Gals; of Booze and Limejuice; Shanghaiing; the Lowlands Family; the Stormalong Group; Mexico and Rio; the Sacramento and California; Goodbyes and Hurrahs 43

Part 2 Runaway Choruses; Young Things and Their Mammies; the Roll Family; Rolling Rivers and Rolling Homes and Rolling Kings; Fishes; the Blow Family; Pigs-Human and Otherwise; the Ranzo Group 115

Part 3 The Hilo Group; Gals with Blue Dresses and Hogs-eye Men; Johnnies of all Kinds; the Heaving Group and Cheerily Man Items; Paddy Doyle and all His Relations; Shanties of Railroad. Origin and Banjoes; Good Mornin', Ladies All 183

Part 4 The Haul Family; Rosie and. Roses; Susanna and Polkas; Girls' Names; Transportation and Place Names; Men's Nam.es and Professions; Ships both Famous and. Fictitious 265

Part 5 Pot-pourri of British, American, French, German, and other Foreign Shanties; Sweatin'-up and Hand-overhand. Shanties, and Sing-outs; Go to Sea No More 357

Glossary 411

Bibliography 419

Index of Titles 425

Editorial Reviews

. . . this splendid tome, expertly illustrated by the author, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative of the many collections of sailors’ songs published over the past nine decades. In sheer volume alone it is certainly the most monumental, providing a consistently fascinating text and a lifetime’s worth of material for the amateur or professional folksinger, maritime historian, folklorist, or literary critic.” —Stuart M. Frank, The Log of Mystic Seaport

“It is one of the most interesting and delightful books one could possibly get ahold of. It is always a pleasure to be able to recommend a book without reserve. This I can do!” —Patrick Dickinson, The Observer

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