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Shanties From The Seven Seas, Round The Corner
Titel:
Shanties From The Seven Seas
Ondertitel:
Round The Corner
Naam uitgever:
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
Jaar van uitgave:
First Published 1961
Omschrijving:
Liedtekst
Taal:
Engels
Aantal pagina's:
430
Paginanummer:
36
Plaats van uitgave:
Connecticut
Auteur:
Collected by Stan Hugill
THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
Round the Comer. Hurrah, Hurrah, My Hearty Fellows. Nancy 0 ! Captain's Gone Ashore. Heave Round Hearty. Jack Crosstree. Roll the Old Chariot. Neptune's Raging Fury. Cheer Up, Sam.
Laughton^ writes that Dana gives no Negro shanties, but is this
quite correct? Round the Comer, Cheer Up, Sam, and Roll the Old Chariot are all of Negro extraction. These and Cheerily Men are the only ones of Dana's work-songs that have survived until the present day. But then again, as we know nothing of his shanties beyond their titles, what is to prevent many of them from being Negro songs? For example, in this book I have produced several *new' shanties, the titles of three are Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away (a). Heave Away, Boys, Heave Away (b), and Haul Away, Boys, Haul Away. With the aid of the titles only who would know these were Negro shanties? And yet that is what they are. And then again, to further an idea presented by the author of the
Seven Seas Shanty Book, many of the shanties that appear to be developed from Negro sources may be white men's ditties taken to the West Indies by the slaves of the Monmouth Rebellion and, after being altered by the Negroes to suit their tastes, turning up again as Negro work-songs aboard sailing ships. Sally Brown is mentioned by Captain Marryat as having been sung
in 1837 by seamen aboard the packet he sailed in from England to America. This shanty is of Negro extraction, if it is not a pure Negro song. I am rather inclined to think that Negro shanties or shanties developed from Negro songs were more common about this period than the authorities seem to suggest. And why not? From just prior to the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Cotton Trade between the Southern States of America and England advanced steadily until, in about 1836-7, the amount of cotton carried to England reached more than 500 shiploads. Laugh ton states that in the 1830s the loading of cotton on to the
ships gave seamen many opportunities to listen to slave songs, the result being that the white sailors picked up Negro work-songs and took them to sea as shanties, ousting the old favourites; but he does admit too that the 1840s produced Western Ocean and Blow the Man Down. I believe that Negro songs were being sung in British ships earlier than is usually accepted. Even Blow the Man Down is now ' Laughton, L. G. Carr, 'Shantying and Shanties', Thi Mariner's Mirror, 1923. 10
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