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opening scene of movie by same name. Good movie about bad things in a small fishing village.
maybe technically not a shanty. sounds like to me though..idk. but good
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@ABitRusty -
"Roll The Old Chariot" is the 1st shanty I saw on YouTube (before violin)! Don't know why it isn't already here!
I have seen that film - will watch.
🤔... hadn't heard the last one before, and I was just looking at Coffin's tunes a couple days ago!
Thank you!
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Sorry, I still haven't separated out the 'Piratey Tavern' tunes yet, so here's another I've been having fun with.
Link to "Down Among The Dead Men" sheet music pdf.
I'm in a Piratey mood.
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Recent inquiries lead me to this one!
"The Press Gang" - Tom Moore (fiddle), Nick Hart (vocals & guitar).
Excerpt & music notation (see attachment) from: The Press Gang - Country Dance & Song Society info
“The Press Gang (On Board A Man of War)” (Roud 662) is a song from the days when the British crown felt it could, in times of war, “press” into service anyone whom they deemed fit. (Or fit enough.) Gangs of Navy officers and Seamen would, in times of war, scour the English seaside towns, and gather up as many men as they needed. In some cases, this was done by “the book,” and other times, by less scrupulous methods. In fact, the impressment of American sailors was one of the issues that helped us to enter into the War of 1812.
There is also an Irish Air/Jig named "The Press Gang" at the Traditional Tune Archive (different tune)!
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Recent inquiries lead me to this one!"The Press Gang" - Tom Moore (fiddle), Nick Hart (vocals & guitar).
Excerpt & music notation (see attachment) from: The Press Gang - Country Dance & Song Society info
“The Press Gang (On Board A Man of War)” (Roud 662) is a song from the days when the British crown felt it could, in times of war, “press” into service anyone whom they deemed fit. (Or fit enough.) Gangs of Navy officers and Seamen would, in times of war, scour the English seaside towns, and gather up as many men as they needed. In some cases, this was done by “the book,” and other times, by less scrupulous methods. In fact, the impressment of American sailors was one of the issues that helped us to enter into the War of 1812.
There is also an Irish Air/Jig named "The Press Gang" at the Traditional Tune Archive (different tune)!
which is NOT this The Press Gang from the other thread. confusing.. but since mentioned in other thread probably good to point it out here as well as a cross reference.
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@ABitRusty -
THANK YOU!
Sorry, I should have made it clear that "The Press Gang" Sea Shanty is completely unrelated to the 2 bands by that same name!
Well, since the The Sailor's Hornpipe is on the 1st page of this Thread, here's another hornpipe to go along with it.
"Hull's Victory" - Early fiddle field recording, there's some great info/history on this tune in the video description! Sheet music notation & variable speed midi here, at The Session: Hull's Victory (hornpipe)
Chant de marins : Off to Sea Once More - music notation & midi
"Go To Sea No More" (aka. "Off To Sea Once More")
- Emily
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Here's a better tutorial for this cool little tune composed by Keith Sharp (Australia) - even for people not using the AMEB Series! (deleted the previous)
MissRasmussanMusic (YT Channel) has great play-along video tutorials - for ALL parts!
Violin 1 Violin 1 with Harmony on repeat (longer version)
Viola Harmony Viola Harmony with repeat
Cello & Bass Melody Cello & Bass with Repeat (combination melody & harmony)
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Shoot, forgot to post this tune a couple weeks back... kind of a shanty-ballad!
"Tale of The Shadow" by Sail North!
I realize quite a few folks still don't learn by ear, so if anyone needs help with one of these tunes - ask!
Top 11 Mysterious Ghost Ships and Haunted Stories of the Maritime World
Spooktacular - TRY IT!
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Oh NO! ...such a neglected thread! 😒
Luckily, saw a recent query/discussion started on The Session (reminded me to ck back here) - so, time to learn more of these tunes (and refresh ones already learned)!!!
It's obvious I'm terribly guilty of stretching the range of 'Shanties/Chanties' to include just about all other seafaring songs & tunes. I posted this in the discussion:
Before I started learning the fiddle & trad Irish tunes, I’d heard the likes of the Irish Rovers - so songs like ‘The Shores of Botany Bay’, drinking songs, pirate-related songs, seafaring ballads and shanties, just all seemed to fit together.
Of course I soon learned there were different types of ‘Shanties/Chanties’ - in the true sense, task-related work songs that didn’t have any accompaniment (cause, hey… everyone’s working).
I think people do have a tendency to group ‘Shanties’ and ‘Forebitters’ together. Even in the book, ‘Shanties From The Seven Seas Collected by Stan Hugill’, it’s stated that no one was too strict with song rules - forbitters were sometimes repurposed for work and types of shanties sometimes interchanged. “One ruling however held - anchor songs were recognized as outward and homeward-bounders, and very rarely were they used on the wrong passage.” It’s also mentioned that sailors had to work their cargo, so ‘shore-work’ songs from lumberman & stevedores (loaders) got added to the shantyman’s repertoire.
“There was even a shanty for doing nothing at all.” (all refer from pg. 27)
The entire book, 'Shanties From The Seven Seas Collected by Stan Hugill’ can be borrowed/read by signing in to the Internet Archive (link).
Venturing beyond basic 'shanties' is just too irresistible (at least for me), so hope everyone can accept there's 'FOREBITTERS' (sea songs) here, in this thread, too!
I regret I've only really kept 2 'seafaring' tunes up in my practice rotation, when there's so much fun music to play here. 'Joli Rouge' (post #35) is one. The other tune I try to keep up fairly fresh is 'The Unicorn' (link to notation) by Stuart Morison - recorded by Tannahill Weavers. It was written for the Frigate Unicorn. First tune in this set:
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