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LOWLANDS LOW LOWLANDS LOW {b)
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the words are very similar. Some sing 'they sewed him up in hide'. But the name of the ship differs widely; some versions give the Gold China Tree or the Marj Golden Tree; others have the IVeep Willow Tree, Golden Willow Tree, and Sweet Tnnitee. And the pirate ship has many names: the Turkish [or Spanish^ Canoe, the Turkish Roveree, and the Spanish Gahalee being some. One version makes the cabin-boy threaten:
'If it warn't for my love for your daughter an' your men, I would do unto you as I did unto them, I would use my trusty auger an' do the job again, An' I'd sink ye in the Lowlands Low.'
And sometimes the story wound up joyfully:
'So we took him up aboard an' we praised him joyfully, For he'd saved us from the hands of the Turkish piratee, And the skipper gave his daughter, fairest in the North Countree, When they sailed upon the Lowlands Low.'
Another shanty with the Lowlands theme was Lowlands Away. Originally a pumping song, it was later used at windlass and capstan. It was never too popular,
as it was difficult to sing properly—Whall
describes it as a 'recitative type' of song. I t savours of a shore-ballad with words unusually sentimental for seamen. Some think it is of North Country origin, and the words appear to justify this, but the tune has a Negro touch about it. More than likely it is one of the songs that passed through the shanty mart of the Gulf Ports as referred to in the Introduction. C. F. Smith, who strangely enough gives it as a halyard shanty, declares i t was practic. Uy extinct by the eighties,
and Terry says that after the China clipper era it was 60

Shanties From The Seven Seas,

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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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First Published 1961

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430

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Connecticut

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Collected by Stan Hugill

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LOWLANDS LOW
7. 'He bore with his auger, he bored once an' twice. An' some were playin' cards an' some were playin' dice. An' the water flowed in an' dazzalèd their eyes. An' he sank 'em in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and he sank 'em, etc.
8. 'Oh, some were playing cards, oh, an' some were playin' dice. An' some wuz in their hammocks a-sportin' with their wives, An' then he let the water in an' put out all their lights, And he sank her in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and he sank her, etc.
g. 'Then the cabin-boy did swim o'er to the starboard side, Sayin' "Capen, take me up, I am drifting with the tide."
"I will sink ye, I will kill ye, if ye claim my child as bride, I will sink ye in the Lowlands Low." ' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, I will sink ye, etc.
10. 'Then the cabin-boy did swim all to the larboard side, Sayin' "Shipmates take me up for I'm drownin' with the tide." They hauled him up so quickly, but when on deck he died, And they buried him in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and they buried him, etc.
11. 'And his shipmates took him up, and when on deck he died. They sewed him in his hammock which was so strong and wide. They said a short prayer o'er him, and they dropped him in the tide, And they sailed from the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and they sailed, etc.
12. 'Here's a curse upon that Captain, wherever he may be. For taking that poor cabin-boy so far away to sea, For taking that poor cabin-boy so far away to sea. And to leave him in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and to leave him, etc.
For the third line, verse 9, Jack Birch would sing: I will shoot you, I will kill you, I will knock you in the eye
and for verse 7 he sang:
Then he took up his auger and let the water through. He sank the pirate Spanish craft an' all her rascal crew. Another popular tune was one also sung by Birch; after the first
verse the above verses were sung, from verse 4 onwards. 59

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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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First Published 1961

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LOWLANDS LOW THE LOWLANDS LOW [a)
Alternative titles, The Golden Vanitee, The Lowland Sea, or Lowlands
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2. Oh, I had her built in the North a-counteree. An' I had her christened the Golden Vanitee. I armed her and I manned her an' I sent her olT to sea, And she's sailing in the Lowlands Low. Ck. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, she's sailing in the Lowlands Low
3. Then up spoke a sailor who had just returned from sea, 'Oh , I wuz aboard of the Golden Vanitee, When she wuz held in chase by a Spanish piratee, And we sank her in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and we sank her, etc.
4. 'Oh , we had aboard o' us a little cabin-boy. Who said, "What will ye give me if the galley I destroy?" Oh, ye can wed my daughter, she is my pride and joy, If ye sink her in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, if ye sink her, etc,
5. 'Of treasure and of gold I will give to ye a store, And my pretty little daughter that dwelleth on the shore, Of treasure and of fee as well I'll give to thee galore, If ye sink her in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. l u the Lowlands, Lowlands, if ye sink her, etc.
6. 'So the boy bared his breast and he plunged into the tide. An' he swam until he came to the rascal pirate's side. He climbed on deck an' went below, by none was he espied, And he sank 'em in the Lowlands Low.' Ch. In the Lowlands, Lowlands, and he sank 'em, etc. 58

Shanties From The Seven Seas,

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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM

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First Published 1961

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Engels

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430

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Connecticut

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Collected by Stan Hugill

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THE FIVE-GALLON JAR
THE FIVE-GALLON JAR (Forebitter)
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OU Viröio-i» Low- IQ;JC1»-'LOW.
The chorus is clearly allied—in words and tune—to those of the following songs of the Lowlands family. The lilt of the word 'Lowlands' seemed to have a fascination for
the shantyman and sailor in general. A very ancient song of the sea sings of the Lowlands of Holland—the Lowlands of Holland, those of Scotland, and even the Lowlands of Virginia were all woven into the songs of the shantyman. The old song variously known as Lowlands, The Lowland Sea, The
Golden Vanitee, or The Lowlands Low seems to have been based on a ballad of the seventeenth century entitled Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing in the Lowlands (see Aston, Real Sailors' Songs). The origin of the melody is unknown, but it would never have fitted the words of the older ballad. Captain Davis ^ is the only collector who gives it as a shanty, but I myself and many of my shipmates have sung this old song at both capstan and pumps. My version I had from my father with some added verses from the singing of my shipmate Jack Birch of Plymouth.
' Davis & Tozer, Sailors' Songs or 'Chanties', London (Booscy & Co., Ltd.), 18O7.
S^«j!*^Go9«,7htv ut«<i è^t l ^ stop»Jar, If) Ü)t Old Vit-gu) i» Uw lapdf.lowlo^.loiv.^i^
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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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First Published 1961

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LARRY MARR LARRY MARR
Alternative titles, The Five-Gallon Jar or Sound the Jubilee I ^
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3. The pair they played the shanghai game, wuz known both near an' far. They never missed a lucky chance to use the five-gallon jar. Ch. Oooh! Hoist, etc.
4. A hell-ship she wuz short o' hands, o' full red-blooded tars, Missus an' Larry would prime the beer in their ol' five-gallon jar.
5. Shellbacks an' farmers jist the same sailed into Larry Marr's, And sailed away around the Horn, helped by the five-gallon jar.
6. In 'Frisco town their names is known, as is the Cape Horn Bar, An' the dope they serve out to ol' Jack, from the big five-gallon jar.
7. From the Barbary Coast steer clear, me boys, an' from ol' Larry Marr, Or else damn soon shanghaied ye'U be by Larry's five-gallon jar.
8. Shanghaied away in a skys'1-ship around Cape Horn so far. Goodbye to all the boys an' girls an' Larry's five-gallon jar.
Here is Paddy Delaney's rendering of the first verse of the fore- bitter for comparison.
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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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First Published 1961

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THE LIMEJUICE SHIP
2. Now when ye join a merchant ship ye'li hear yer Articles read. They'll tell ye of yer beef an' pork, yer butter an' yer bread, Yer sugar, tea, an' coffee, boys, yer peas an' beans exact, Yer limejuice an' vinegar, boys, according to the Act. [Alternative last line: For what's the use of growlin' when ye know yer get yer whack.]
Ch. So-o! Haul, boys, yer weather main brace, etc.
3. No watch an' watch the first day out, according to the Act. Ten days out we all lay aft to get our limejuice whack. Fetch out her handy billy, boys, and clap it on the tack, For we gonna set the mains'l, oh, according to the Act. Ch. So-o! Haul, etc.
4. It's up the deck, me bully boys, with many a curse we go, Awaiting to hear eight bells struck that we may go below. Eight bells is struck, the watch is called, the log is hove exact; Relieve the wheel an' go below, according to the Act. Ch. So-o! Haul, etc.
Another version exists, sung to a similar tune as far as the verse is concerned, but with five verses, the fifth one being my chorus. The chorus, however, is:
3bou.t,i>o^s, "Acut I 5or I
ttU you it's a
fact • • .
followed by There's nothing done on a limejuice ship contrary to the Act.
sung to bars 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 of my verse. A shanty often used at the capstan and also at the pumps was
Larry Marr or, as sometimes called. The Five-Gallon Jar. In chorus it is related to the second version of The Limejuice Ship. H. de Vere Stacpoole in his famous romance The Blue Lagoon mentions a snatch of it exactly the same as I give. Mr. Bryce of Sutton Coldfield, in a letter to me, writes: 'I believe Stacpoole got The Five-Gallon Jar from a book of old Irish songs. ... " I had my version from an old Irish sailor, Paddy Delaney, and it is pretty certain that it is of Irish origin. There is also a forebitter of the same name, telling much the same story. J . F. Keane in his Three Years of a Wanderer's Life refers to the forebitter and gives the crimp concerned as Larry Meagher, while Doerflinger, who also gives the forebitter, although he calls it a 'ballad', gives Jack Jennings as the crimp. Paddy Delaney, who also knew the forebitter, told me he believed it to be older than the shanty, and that the words of the forebitter, after the first verse, were much the same as those in the shanty. The chorus of the fore- bitter, however, indicates an American origin. 55

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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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First Published 1961

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THE LIMEJUICE SHIP
Captain Robinson in his article on Shanties ^ gives a version with the tune almost identical with this, but his one verse runs:
When you get to Baltimore, Give my love to Susanna, my dear.
After these examples of Sailor John's shore activities, our next
shanty tells of his food and drink while at sea. It was a forebitter really, but was often used at pumps and sometimes at the capstan. The Merchant Shipping Act came out in the year 1894, and in it
was laid down the amount of food, water, etc., Sailor John was allowed when on shipboard. This doling out of rations was known to John as 'Pound and Pint'. The Act also covered fines and punish- ments for delinquent mariners, such as 'For concealing Knuckle- dusters, Slung-shot, Sword-stick, etc. y. for each day of conceal- ment', and many commandments and regulations in similar strain. But the item around which this sarcastic song was built was also the origin of the Yanks calling English sailors 'Limejuicers'. This was the daily issuing of limejuice to British crews when they had been a certain number of days at sea. My version of this song is partly that of my father and partly that
of a shipmate, Arthur Spencer. The tune is also to be heard in Nova Scotia, the song being one about 'Sauerkraut and bully' sung in the Lunenburg dialect.
THE LIMEJUICE SHIP Alternative title, According to the Act
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' Tht Bellman, Minneapolis, 1917. 54
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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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s o EARLY IN THE MORNING
Miss Lucy Long. Ezra Cobb, a Bluenose (Nova Scotian) seaman of the old school, gave me a variant sung only at pumps, although he did say that "Twere used sometimes at caps'n.'
SO EARLY IN THE MORNING {b) j.»iijmjjiJJjJiJJrjijjjJij.üJiJr^J T^ fcottU-O, th» t)ottlt-0,tj)« SaU-orlowjt|jebottleO,So eoriv Ip ti;« iponjujj ti)t Sail-or \o»t%hii tot-tle- 0/ CI bot-Ht o' tunj.a botllt o* Uw, a i»tlU o' Hi.i- «yt. f jjjiJrJj|jj.rrir ^ VAu-l^-O.'So ««-ly ip t*)« tt)OT?>ii)J tk», soil-or liliu ^i» 2>at-tU- O ƒ
Another version, sung at the capstan and pumps, and usually heard aboard ships in the West Indian trade, is the foUovk'ing.
I'MTrj^iniiJ^l.nijJ.NiJii^J'j ^JjljJi^llJ-JjIjJJlJ^ ^ ^i^JJlJjJ-JljJIJ^^lJ-jj
SO EARLY IN THE MORNING {c) %
wKuky-0/ So «iLrly Ir) tj)t iporp-ii;', Sail-on lil^ tb* tol-tU- 0 /
2. Now we're bound to Kingston Town, Where the rum flows round an' round. Ch. So early in the mornin', Sailors love the bottle-O! Bottle-O! Bottle-O! Bottle of very good whisky-O! So early in the mornin', Sailors like the bottle-O!
3. The Mate wuz drunk an' he went below, To take a swig o' his bottlc-O. Ch. So early, etc. 53
ijotrj-ir,', Siul-orslo«tl)el»t-Ü»-0.'Botèl«.0'bol-tlt-O/ BotÜt of vtr-y good II

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s o EARLY IN THE MORNING SO EARLY IN THE MORNING [a)
Alternative titles, The Sailor Loves, The Sailor Likes his Bottle-0 Soo/eu-lv ip tht motn.9',tli« sailor ItK" h.1 !>olUt.O/Jh» iy»t«'«~3<ini5koi)'^
|,^J JJJjlJ^^lp^Jpll'^JilJ.JjIJjJJ^I Weptlw-low to tak» o swig at hi9 bot Ut-O, So tax-lv in Ijie njorf)ip',tj;t Jjil-cr liki» b'> ixA- a . - 0 ƒ
2. The bottle-O, the bottlc-O, the sailor loves his bottle-O, Ch. SOD, early in the mornin', the ja:7or likes his bottle-O!
3. A bottle o' rum, a bottle o' gin [beer, brandy], a bottle o' Irish whisky-O [good canary-O]. Ch. Soo, early, etc.
4. The baccy-O, terbaccy-O, the sailor loves his baccy-O. 5. A packet o' shag, a packet o' cut [twist], a plug o' hard terbaccy-O [Faithfui Lover-O, Yankee Doodle-O, Bird's-Eye baccy-O]. 6. The lassies-O, the maidens-O, the sailor loves the judics-O.
7. A lass from the 'Pool [The lassies o' London], a gal from the Tyne, a chowlah so fine an' dandy-O [the gals across the water-O].
8. A bully rough-house, a bully rough-house, the sailor likes a rough- house-O.
9. A tread on me coat, an all-hands-in, a bully good rough an' tumble-O.
10. A sing-song-O, a sing-song-O, the sailor likes a sing-song-O. 11. A drinkin' song, a song o' love, a ditty o' seas and shipmates-O.
According to my informant this shanty was one in which im- provisation was the thing, anything and everything a sailor was likely to 'love' was brought in by a versatile shartyman. The refrain in every case can be the first one about the 'bottle', but sometimes the name of a thing the sailor loves would be substituted for 'bottle':
The sailor loves the judies-O, The sailor likes a sing-song-O.
And the word 'early' was always pronounced 'ear-lye', a common trick even with shore folk-song singers. Miss C. F. Smith writes that it was a favourite in the old Black-
wallers. Its opening solo bears a striking resemblance to the shanty 52

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THE GIRL IN PORTLAND STREET
4. 'Now, miss,' sez I, 'I like yer style.' Scz she, 'Young man, just wait a while.'
5. 'Just wait until you try an' play, And then I'll send ye on yer way.'
6. I took her hand into my own, And we headed soon for her old home.
7. And in her room not far away. We drank until the break o' day.
8. I pulled her down upon me lap, Sez she, 'Young man, your face I'll slap.'
9. On her ankle next I placed my hand, Sez she, 'For this, I will not stand.'
10. I pul'ed her dress above her knee, Sez she, 'Young man, please let me be.'
From here onwards the amorous adventures of Sailor John are
much the same as those in the bawdy version o{ A-rovin', but Harlow finishes with a stanza:
'And why did I no further go? Alas! her leg was cork, you know!'
This was one of the 'anatomical progression' shanties—to quote a friend of mine—sired by the 'catch' in The Rape of Lucrece. Another shanty telling of Jack's shore amusements is So Early in the Morning. It was used for both halyards and pumps. Terry calls it an 'interchangeable shanty' and expresses some doubt as to how the first line was manipulated when sung at halyards. This is not really difficult to understand. The first line is the chorus, sung, as many shantymen sang the chorus of other shanties, as an introduction when they were in doubt as to whether a greenhorn crowd knew the refrain or not. This introduction-chorus became so common that many shanties
are now written down in this fashion, e.g. Shallow Brown, Drunken Sailor, Lowlands, etc. Terry got his version mussed up because he started each rtanza with the introduction-chorus. C. F. Smith thinks the tune is much like a nursery rhyme which runs, 'Fiddle de dee, The fly has married the bumble-bee', and Sharp likens it to a folk- song, Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo. My first version is a Liverpool-Irish one.
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Shanties From The Seven Seas

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THE GIRL IN PORTLAND STREET
7. Them ol' senyoras, as we know well, Them ol' senyoras, etc.
They're red-hot divils from the other side o' hell, An' ye'll niver get a chance for to ring a Chile belle.
8. When the time comes for to sing farewell. When the time, etc. Goodbye to the gals an' our money as well, Callyo, Coquimbo, an' ol' Corynel.
A rather curious shanty related in theme to A-rovin' is the follow-
ing. Harlow gives it under the title Fal-de-lal-day, and calls it a whistling shanty from the fact that the first refrain was sometimes whistled—a statement I have not been able to verify. It has many shore counterparts in Britain. I t is usually called The Devil's Song, and sometimes the shore versions have the whistling refrain and sometimes it is omitted; but the second chorus is always the 'Fol-de- lol-day' one. It was often sung by the tinkers and 'trav'ling people' of mid and southern England. Seamus Ennis of the B.B.C. Folk Song Department came across a version in County Leitrim, Ireland, with a different theme, and another in Norfolk. In this latter one the first refrain is 'Right fol-lol, folladdy', and the second, 'Singing right for the loll, tiddy follol, fallay'. The sailor version was always sung at pumps. I also had this from Mike O'Rourke. He said that the first solo was often repeated as the first refrain.
THE GIRL IN PORTLAND Cl)«»rf^lly ^ ; ^^^^^^^^ ^ 1 n)»t a ^ l i^ë 4r-^r ^
tr, ^xl lcw)al5t«t,^ d« M.foi i iol.pd i loï U day,! 15*1» ^ l »j (I - rT>J. a -
90.1 ip - lort la»)ciStr«al) 3 Poit la9aSt,«tW4a£it J< Mdav.C,) Jc )cl doy.jil J, U lol Je,lol ii , lol Ay f
2. This gal I met in Portland Street, Ch. Fol-de-lol, fol-de-lol, fol-de-lol, lol-day [or else repeat solo or whistle^
Was the sweetest gal I ever did meet. Ch. With a fol-de-lol-day, fol-de-lol-day, Fol-de-lol-lol-de, lol-de, lol-day!
3. Scz I, 'Me gal, 'Ow do ye do?' Sez she, 'The worst for seein' o' you.' 50
STREET Alternative title, Fol-de-lol-day

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THE GALS O CHILE
I have inserted it here since several bars of its third solo arc reminiscent of the tune of A-rovin\
THE GALS 0' CHILE
Alternative title, Timme Heave-0, Hang Her, Hilo! ^
Ë ^ ^ To. ^ ^ r"^^^ Chi-li's aiutvwarcbo<(;><io>^,T>i9<^^<avc.O,|;<i«l)trMi lo/To.. ChiliiCMitwcue ^j^ir'jjj|j,ij3ijjrcri^^rcr^°^ l>ou^a.way,a<j'in'it iya. op'oUclnpklu^cof VVton. t>oi«)<la vwt^at U^tUtks'dauMtn^littUSW'iMl kr.gt)t«r)'im,Timm«K««vt 0,l)<K>g K«r H". lo j Sipg 0- lay fttU)tii) JDoi <0 daU .'
2. An' when we get to Vallipo, Ch. Timme heave-ho, hang 'cr hilo!
An' when we get to Vallipo, Ch. We'll dance an' all drink pisco!
Dance the gals up the street with a roll-'n'-go, Grab 'em round the middle an' we won't let go. Ch. Timme heave-ho, hang 'er hilo! Sing olay for them dago gals!
3. Them gals o' Chile, they are hard to beat. Ch. Timme, etc.
Them gals o' Chile, etc. Ch. We'll dance an' eU.
From truck to keel they are trim an' sweet. They're all a-pullin' on the ol' main-sheet. Ch. Timme heave-ho, etc.
4. Them scnoritas, they are smart and gay, Them senoritas, etc.
They dance an' drink till the break o' day, Then clean ye out an' blow ycr pay.
5. Rosita, Anna, and Carmen too, Rosita, etc.
They'll greet ye with a hullabaloo, An' soon ye'11 know what they can do.
6. My trim little frigate is a very smart craft, My trim, etc.
She's armed to the teeth both fore 'n' aft, Sharp at the bows with a fine view abaft. 49

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A-ROVIN'
2. I took this fair maid for a walk. Ch. Bless you, young women!
I took this fair maid for a walk. Ch. Now mind what I do say!
I took this fair maid for a walk, An' we had such a lovin' talk. Ch. I'll go no more, etc.
3. An' didn't I tell her stories true. Of the gold we found in Timbuctoo.
4. But when she'd spent me bloomin' screw, She cut her cable an' vanished too.
Other stanzas with a genuine ring are:
I met her walking on the Strand, Dressed up for to beat the band.
In Number One New England Square, Me Nancy Dawson she lives there. This last ten months I've bin to sea. Ah' hell, this gal looked good to me.
Versions which give
I kissed that maid and went away, Said she, 'Young man, why don't ye stay?'
contrive to bring the shanty to a close without carrying out the true amours of Jack! Another shanty singing of Jack's amours is the one which I will
call The Girls of Chile. It was an outward-bound anchor song, and a version is also to be found in Captain Robinson's collection; Miss Colcord also gives it, but she had it from Captain Robinson. He gives it the title oï Hero Bangidero, his first and third refrains being 'To my Hero Bangidero', but this refrain, on his own admission, was never sung—being bawdy, it had to be camouflaged. In fact both the verses and refrains I have had to alter to make the song printable. Sailors abused 'furrin lingoes' no end—it was quite a pastime in the old days—and the original refrains of this shanty were nothing more than bawdy alterations of Spanish phrases. Here is a typical example —the name sailors of the sail gave for Valparaiso: 'Wallop-me-ass- with-a-razor'! I had my version from Mike O'Rourke, a fine old Irish seaman who had spent much time in the W.C.S.A. trade— that is, in Liverpool Cape Horners which traded to the ports of Peru and Chile to load guano and nitrates. I think the reason it is rarely found in print is not because it only circulated among seamen in certain trades, as some believe, but because of the difficulty of camouflaging it. This applies to many so- called rare shanties.
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A-ROVIN'
12. Her heart wuz poundin' like a drum, Her lips wuz red as any plum.
13. We laid down on a grassy patch, An' I felt such a ruddy ass.
14. She pushed me over on me back. She laughed so hard her lips did crack.
15. She swore that she'd be true to me. But spent me pay-day fast and free.
16. In three weeks' time I wuz badly bent, Then off to sea I sadly went.
17. In a bloodboai Yank bound round Cape Horn, Me boots an' clothes wuz all in pawn.
18. Bound round Cape Stiff through ice an' snow, An' up the coast to CaDyo.
19. An' then back to the Liverpool Docks, Saltpetre stowed in our boots an' socks.
20. Now when I got back home from sea, A soger had her on his knee.
The last three or four stanzas are fairly modern. Saltpetre, guano,
and all kinds of nitrates were shipped from the west coast of South America to British and continental ports mainly in the latter days of sail.
The tune of the following version, given only by Terry and Sharp,
is probably the older one—it has the jerkiness of all shanties which were sung at the earlier brake-pumps and lever windlasses.
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A-ROVIN' {d) ü t
i fpintiM))all g^¥Je^^^ 3= die ^ / Xo flm-tUr £^}UfweltvcJan^oi)'i^wuin4t trtM a^ h«r trui«. I 11
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ru- i - in , I'U Ö0 90 njoTt a-ro-o-vip*wtUj you fair mOAd . 47
•- # ^o T)o n)OTt ü.-ro-vin'_ V/ItK yoa fft^p n)awljü.-to-vl^', a- ro-vip*, »ü)c« ro-v^n*! btJj ^y _c^

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A-ROVIN' A-ROVIN' [a)
Alternative titles, Amsterdam or The Maid of Amsterdam
2. One night I crept from my abode. Ch. Mark well what I do say!
One night I crept from my abode To meet this fair maid down the road. Ch. We'll go no more a-rovin' with you, fair maid. Full Chorus. A-rovin', a-rovin', Since rovin's bin me ru-i-in, We'll go no more a-rovin', With you, fair maid.
3. I met this fair maid after dark, An' took her to her favourite park.
4. I took this fair maid for a walk. An' we had such a lovin' talk.
5. I put me arm around her waist, Sez she, 'Young man, yer in great haste!'
6. I put me hand upon her knee, Sez she, 'Young man, yer rather free!'
7. I put me hand upon her thigh, Sez she, 'Young man, yer rather high!'
8. I towed her to the MaiderCs Breast, From south tiic wind veered wes'sou'west [sou'sou'west].
9. An' the eyes in her head turned east an' west. And her thoughts wuz as deep as an ol' sea-chest.
10. We had a drink—of sjrub a snatch. We sent two bottles (i<j\\n the hatch.
11. Her (lamty .irms wuz v\hite as milk, Her lo\'elv hair wuz soft as silk. 46

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A-ROVIN '
a rope known as a 'bell-rope', with an eye spliced in one end, was looped over the end of each pump-wheel handle, and as the wheel was about to descend the men, first on one side and then on the other, would haul on the rope, lightening the toil consider- ably. As a matter of interest the old-fashioned 'up-an'-down' or *jig-
gity-jig' windlass for anchor-heaving was used right to the end of the days of sail in the coastal schooners and ketches of Great Britain; I have myself spent many hours at its brakes and know something of the back-breaking labour it must have caused in the larger deep- water ships of a bygone age. A-rovin' appears to be of fair antiquity; some collectors state that
the words are in, or bear certain resemblance to lines in, a song given by T. Heywood in his play The Rape of Lucrece (1640). I have spent some time investigating this statement and have discovered that the song alluded to in Heywood's play is of the type known as a 'catch'. It is certainly not the shanty A-rovin\ and the only thing that can be said about it is that the approach of Sextus to Lucrece bears some resemblance, in sequence, to that of the amorous sea- man to his Dutch girl in the full bawdy version of the shanty. But then again this 'sequence' is to be found in other shanties and in folk-songs such as Gently, Johnny, my Jingalo, and in the soldiers' song popular during the Second World War—Roll Me Over in the Clover. Some say the tune of A-rovin' is Elizabethan; this may be quite
true, but as well as the shore folk-song found in Great Britain, Dutch, Flemisl/, and French versions of this tune exist. An English shore version collected by Cecil Sharp is We'll go no more a-cruisin'. And from being a song of fair antiquity it has within recent years re- appeared over the radio as 0 Women ! 0 Women ! with a touch of the cowboy and hillbilly about it! In all the versions sung by Sailor John the main theme was frankly Rabelaisian—'coarse and indelicate words wedded to a haunting rhythm', as one writer has expressed it. In my version I have tried to keep as much as possible to the story as it used to be sung at sea, bowdlerizing only at impossible places. The first six verses are un- altered, and in the subsequent verses I have kept the rhyming words at the end of each solo intact. This is the nearest attempt yet made to give the shanty as Sailor John rendered it. I have versions from my father, from Anderson, a Scottish carpenter who had served in many Liverpool sailing ships, and from H. Groetzmann, a German seaman who had sailed for years in English barques in the West Coast of South America trade. In the chorus very often 'I'll' was sung instead of 'We'll', and
other alternatives are 'roamin" for 'rovin", 'false maid' for 'fair maid', and 'overt'row' or 'downfall' for 'ruin'. 44

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PART ONE
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
^
^ g FEEL that we cannot do better than start this com- m\m parative work on shanties with one which embodies all [/m Sailor John's roving and amorous activities—the shanty in m question being that popular capstan song A-rovirC.
^^_> ^ A-rovxrC was originally sung at the pumps and old-fashioned windlass. In both labours—at the pump and at the windlass—two long levers were worked up and down by the men: a back-breaking job. These levers—in the case of pumps they were known as 'brakes' —had a long wooden handle inserted in their outboard ends, enabling three or four men to grasp each brake. Many shanties started life at the pump-brakes or old-fashioned windlass levers. Later, when ships began to use capstans with a large windlass below the fo'c'sle-head and iron ships began to replace wooden ones, there- by doing away with the arduous toil of pumping ship with mono- tonous regularity, watch and watch, these shanties were adapted for use at the capstan and more modern and not so often used flywheel or Downton pump. Naturally in their conversion the tune and words remained un-
altered, but the rhythm very often had to be adjusted to the new type of job. A-rovin' is, I feel, always sung much too fast by modem professional singers. The words 'A-rovin', a-rovin" should be timed to fit the downward movement of a four-foot-diameter pump- wheel. The flywheel pump handles, like the old-fashioned levers, allowed only three or four men at the most to do the job, but in the case of the former, so that many more hands could be employed, 43

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THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
many odd corners which mechanization cannot reach. Here the stones are split by metal wedges with men wielding heavy mauls. And, as they swing the mauls—in the manner of Negro railroad gangs of Young America—they sing sailor shanties, two men working on one wedge and striking it alternately at different words in the song. Roll the Old Chariot is a general favourite. This singing at work has been going on for years, the shanties having been brought ashore by west country seamen who became quarrymen. As well as shanties, hymns and popular songs are used and also chants such as Now boys! High ho! One song has a refrain 'Round, round!' Work-songs, in olden days, were to be found in every country and
in almost every trade. From the canoe hauling songs of the New Zealand Maori to the waulking songs of the Hebrides may seem a long traverse, but they all had one thing in common with the sailor shanty, and that is they were used to lighten labour. In Atlantic, Vol. 146, p. 28 (August 1930) appears a 'track-lining chantey', in other words a railroad work-song, but the collector, incorrectly, has referred to it as a 'chantey'. Obviously at the back of his mind he classifies all work-songs as 'chanties'—a natural classification, for the shanty was the work-song par excellence. And to conclude our theme, here, where I work, at the Outward
Bound Sea School, Aberdovey, we also do our best to keep the shanty alive. We often have 'shanty evenings', but as well as these we sing these old halyard songs in true deepwater fashion whilst hauling cutters up to be scraped and painted, hoisting our lifeboat at the davits, and doing many other 'pulley-hauley' jobs, and when we had the ketch Warspite we also made use of capstan songs as the lads stamped round her brass capstan raising the mud-hook. I hope we shall be able to keep these old songs and their spirit ahve for many years to come.
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THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, and English. Examples arc 'Pawl avis!' or 'Avis pawl!' ('Heave a pawl', or 'a little'), 'Vira pawl!' ('Heave a pawl'), 'Vira!' ('Heave' or 'Hoist'), 'Vira vech!' ('Heave away'), 'Aria!' ('Come back', 'Walk back'), 'Aria asti!' ('Slack a little', 'Come back slowly'), 'Asti, asti' ('Slowly', 'Easy'), 'Whoa!' ('Stop'), and 'Leg-go!' While in the Far Eastern Trade I collected many work-songs of
Chinese and Japanese seamen, but, mainly because of the lack of space, I shall have to omit them from this work. *
* *
In days gone by dwellers in sea ports were only too familiar with the rising cadences of the choruses of the windjammerman's working songs—over the dock sheds, house tops, and even sounding a mile or more away from their source, the deck of some tall ship entering or leaving dock. Basil Lubbock in his Z,flj/q/"<Ae Windjammers, describes on page 97 the
arrival of the Dawpool (Captain Fearon) at Liverpool after a terrible homeward passage from San Francisco round Cape Horn in 1891:
The next day, a Sunday, the crews of the Henry B. Hyde and the R. D.
Rice . . . came aboard and chantied her through the three docks. Quite a big crowd of Liverpool shipping people came down to see her dock. . . . It was a calm, quiet Sunday, with the three crews chantying at the capstans. As the lines were hove in, the singing was most impressive. Indeed people said that they heard the capstan chanties on St. James's Mount, where Liverpool Cathedral now stands.
Such scenes have long departed, never to return again, but even
in this prosaic age an occasional glimpse of the past is revived in, I'm afraid, a rather ghostly fashion. In answer to the query 'When was the last shanty sung?' a sub-
scriber in Sea Breezes writes: As to when the last full-blooded chanty was sung, I remember one
occasion on board H.M. destroyer Foresight in the Barents Sea .. . on the evening of May i, 1942. We were trying to steer H.M. cruiser Edinburgh after her stern had been blown off by a torpedo, by acting as a drag astern. We had to get fathoms of anchor cable across from the Edinburgh's quarter on to our forecastle with heavy seas running and no steam coming through to the capstan owing to the pipes being frozen. It was 'Out capstan bars and heave away'' and I don't think that the old 'shellbacks' would have been ashamed of our performance! (Wm. Pritchard, Menai Bridge, N. Wales.)
And ashore, in Britain, even today, almost unbelievably, shanties are still being used as work-songs. This striking information was gained by my friend Peter Kennedy, the well-known B.B.C. folk-song collector. Apparently in the stone quarries of Portland there arc 40

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THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN My old shipmate, Jack Birch of Plymouth, gave me a sailor version
of the old song, Polly Wolly Doodle, which he said he believed had been used as a shanty—and if this is so, then not only foreigners 'invented' shanties in modern times!
Oh, wc went up Channel with a new main yard, Ch. Singing skiddly, winkic, doodle all the day!
And it fell upon the deck an' it broke the skipper's neck, Ch. Singing skiddly, winkie, doodle all the day! Fare-ye-wcll, farc-yc-well, fare-ye-well, my lady friend. For we're bound to Alabama for to see me Susiana, Singing skiddly, winkie, doodle all the day!
Many of the words in this song—Susiana, Fare-ye-well, doodle— have the genuine shanty touch.
In many parts of the world even today, songs that could be classed as shanties—songs for hauling in tunny nets, for working cargo and coal, for rowing, and so on—are in use among Levantines, Arabs, Malays, Indians, Tamils, Chinese, and Japanese. Among Africans too such songs are to be found. Bill Fuller, a shipmate of mine, collected many from S.E. Africa:
Shanlyman
U dcr dcr-der! Already!
One, two, three! Assigo!
Ai-O! A, a, Jtsi-ah! A, a, 5isi-ah!
This was a chant used by Kaffirs when hauling a whale up the slip- way—a scene familiar to anyone visiting Durban some years ago. Indian coolies are naturally given to chanting when working and
it makes me think that there must have been quite a number of real sailor shanties—a mixture of Hindustani and English—originated by the lascaris of sailing ships in the India-Trinidad Trade (like those of James Nourse), but it is rather too late now to seek them. The only example I have, which I honestly believe to be of this origin, is Eki Dumah. All seamen, more or less, tend to be cosmopolitan in their outlook, and the mixing of foreign words and phrases with their own language is one of their common characteristics even today, and in the days of sail this was still more pronounced. For example, in all the ports of the East—from Gibraltar to Shanghai— the orders used for working cargo are a mixture of many languages:
39 The Crowd
U der der-der! Already!
One, two, three! Assigo!
Ai-O!
On the final 'Ai-O!' all hands would either pull or push as the case may be.

Shanties From The Seven Seas,

Titel:

Shanties From The Seven Seas

Naam uitgever:

MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM

Jaar van uitgave:

First Published 1961

Taal:

Engels

Aantal pagina's:

430

Plaats van uitgave:

Connecticut

Auteur:

Collected by Stan Hugill

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Organisatie: Shanty Nederland

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fact that Miss Smith got her merchant and naval seamen mixed up somewhat, this statement contains a fallacy. No doubt Dibdin's airs were played in naval vessels by the ship's fiddler, but they were never sung as shanties. And they would be sung by naval tars in the mess-deck, but they were not popular with merchant Jacks off duty. 'These imitations by landsmen,' writes Whall, 'may have been
sung in the wardroom but never before the mast.' Bullen writes: 'The grand old songs of Dibdin such as Tom Bowling, etc., were tacitly tabooed (in the fo'c'sle).' No, we know for a fact so-called sailor songs written by landsmen
were never popular at sea (in the merchant service), and certainly never sung as shanties. Shore-songs having nothing whatsoever to do with the sea were sometimes, as we have seen, used at capstan and halyard, but never shore sea-songs. But in Scandinavia and Ger- many, that fine old British sea-song Nancy Lee, for example, was used at the capstan, in the belief that it was a genuine British shanty. In Knurrhahn it is shown in typical shanty fashion with Vorsdnger (shantyman) printed at the head of each verse. In Sdng under Segel, the Swedish shanty book, it is described as 'the most popular sailor's song of the sailing ship days', and is given as a Gdngspelsshanty (cap- stan shanty). The Victorian sea-song Sailing, Sailing also appears to have been used by European seamen, and in Katherine Wood's translation of Roger Vercel's story of the last days of the French Cape Horners—Ride Out the Storm—the chorus of this song is given, and it is described as 'the famous sea chantey of the great American saihng ships'. And other examples besides these do exist. I have often, too, expressed my belief that foreigners, in particular Germans and Scandinavians, carried on adapting shore-songs as shanties long after British and American seamen had ceased to 'invent' shanties. A German example I give in the following pages is Up She Goes, which is nothing more than the shore-song Baltimore or We Parted on the Shore. Just before the Pamir sailed on her first voyage after the Second World War (1951) an old Hamburg sailor sent to her bosun the words and music of an almost forgotten shanty sung in platt- deutsch called Yo-ho for de Bottel 0 Rumm (!). Unfortunately, I have been unable to secure a copy of it. And here is a Swedish example. It is described in Sdng under Segel as a Roddarvisa, a rowing song, and it is nothing more than the well-known revivalist hymn, Pull for the shore, sailors:
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—^— yl
stonijskyav J-
^Iv 1 nan o V- er Vid (i«r 7»- 'Lcu^^ 'hal, a. - hi / 38 Laij;* Hal, a . Ka. /
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irij)9u;-gacj grjv'

Shanties From The Seven Seas,

Titel:

Shanties From The Seven Seas

Naam uitgever:

MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM

Jaar van uitgave:

First Published 1961

Taal:

Engels

Aantal pagina's:

430

Plaats van uitgave:

Connecticut

Auteur:

Collected by Stan Hugill

Voorbeeld : Klik op de tekst voor meer

Organisatie: Shanty Nederland

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London Town".' This line is to be found in The Powder Monkey, which in fact never was a shanty, but a music-hall type of sea-song. Was there a shanty which had this line? (See page 148.) In the Introduction to Opsang Fra Seilskibstiden, D. H. Brockmann
writes: 'As a child I found that at sea there were a lot of strange songs with stranger refrains, for example:
Med skibet Jone Jonas fra Engelland vi gik. At gjeste varme Indien for at lacre folkeskik, Ch. Kom sjung hop falleriora, Ta i mersefald og dra!
(In the ship Jone Jonas from England we went, Wc went as guests to warm India, to teach the folk there manners. Ck. Come, sing hop falieri era. Take a drag on the tops'1 halyard!)^
Kong David var en yngling da han til harpen tog, Han kjaempede med Goliat og slog ham ncd til jord. Ch. Kom sjung hop falleriora, Ta i mersefald og dra!'
(King David was a youth when he began playing a harp. He fought with Goliath and knocked him to the ground. Ch. Come sing, etc.Y
And then he goes on to ask . . . ' and what do you make of this?
Jeg haddc mig di kjerring og hun hedte Sara, Ch. Pompa, pompa, falleriollalci!
Og det var nu mig slik ei h . . . s mara, Ch. Pompa, pompa, falleriorei!'
(I had an ol' cow and her name was Sarah, Ch. Pump, pump, falleriollalci!
And she was such a hell of a nightmare, Ch. Pump, pump, falleriorei!^'
In Ernest Gann's book Twilight for the Gods is mentioned a shanty
Miss Bailey's Ghost which I have not as yet run to earth. These scraps must tickle the appetite of the genuine collector for
more, but who, at this late date, can supply more? *
* *
I wish to bring to the notice of collectors the use made by northern European seamen of EngUsh sea-songs sung ashore in Victoria's time, but usually held in contempt by British seamen. Miss L. A. Smith has written that Dibdin was so honoured by British tars that his songs—'redolent of pitch and tar and oakum'—were sung to 'cheer the tars as they toiled at the capstan'. Now apart from the ' Translation by B. Streiffert. 37

Shanties From The Seven Seas,

Titel:

Shanties From The Seven Seas

Naam uitgever:

MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM

Jaar van uitgave:

First Published 1961

Taal:

Engels

Aantal pagina's:

430

Plaats van uitgave:

Connecticut

Auteur:

Collected by Stan Hugill

Voorbeeld : Klik op de tekst voor meer

Organisatie: Shanty Nederland

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1 gedigitaliseerd

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