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Shanties From The Seven Seas, Two Sisters Courted One Man
Titel:
Shanties From The Seven Seas
Ondertitel:
Two Sisters Courted One Man
Naam uitgever:
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
Jaar van uitgave:
First Published 1961
Omschrijving:
Liedtekst
Taal:
Engels
Aantal pagina's:
430
Paginanummer:
34
Plaats van uitgave:
Connecticut
Auteur:
Collected by Stan Hugill
THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
Page 286: Heaving up and sailing after waiting for water at the Bar off Shields
aboard a merchant brig, Oct. 1811 . . . the stentorian voices of the pilots, the nautical heave O of the mariners as they braced their yards and hauld their bowlings. . . .
On the voyage to Jamaica in the Edward merchantman, in the
year 1811, the crew cleared out and Negroes from ashore worked the cargo. The following I feel must be the earliest reference to shanties, such as we understand them, in print (page 201): Our seamen having left the ship, the harbour work was performed by a
gang of Negroes. These men will work the whole day at the capstan under a scorching sun with almost no intermission. They beguiled the time by one of them singing one line of an English song, or a prose sen- tence at the end of which all the rest join in a short chorus. The sentences which prevail with the gang we had aboard were as follows:
Two sisters courted one man, Ch. Oh, huro, my boys,
And they live in the mountains, Ch. Oh, huro boys O.
And the second:
Grog time of day, boys. Grog time of day, Ch. Huro, my jolly boys. Grog time of day.
Note that this reference to singing at the capstan is in the period
before 1815, a period all writers on the subject of shantying declare to be void of any tangible proof of shantying. Although the West Indian is rarely referred to by writers on shantying, I feel that he was responsible for producing far more seamen's work-songs than any Negro of the Southern States of America. West Indian Negroes have shipped as seamen and cooks in our merchant ships and naval vessels from earliest times and were ever to the fore as shantymen. Bullen seems to be the only writer who looks towards the Caribbean and the Guianas as a source of shanties, although Terry does state that he heard many shanties in 'West Indian seaports . . . one of the few remaining spots where shanties may still be heard'. I endorse this, as I have heard them sung at work in the Windward Islands as late as the thirties. In The Sea Made Men (Memoirs of a Yankee Sea Captain, 1826-1840) the author, G. P. Low, mentions on page 31 darkies singing as they hoisted aboard his ship hogsheads of tobacco at James River, Virginia, but otherwise no mention is made of shantying. The two shanties given in The Quid (already mentioned on page 7)
are capstan songs, although they do not have the saltiness or the ring 8
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