Songs of the sea : the tales and tunes of sailors and sailing ships / Stan Hugill.

Other author Hugill, Stan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : McGraw-Hill, 1977.
Description198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Sea songs.

Contents Outward and homeward bound. Spanish ladies -- Rio Grande -- Shenandoah -- We set out over the Atlantic (Swedish) -- Sacramento -- Paddy lay back -- O ye merry seamen (Swedish) -- Santiana -- Leaving of Liverpool -- Goodbye fare-ye-well -- Outward and homeward bound -- Goodbye madras (French) -- Rolling home -- Leave her, Johnny, leave her ; Sailors, their work, grouses and demise. Strike the bell -- Did you know old father Lancelot? (French) -- The three sailors of Groix (French) -- Return of the sailor (French) -- We must not grieve, we must not grouse (Swedish) -- Song of the helmsman (Italian) -- Hauling song (Swedish) -- Ben Backstay -- Where am I to go, me Johnnies? -- Get the boat in the water (French) -- The sailor's grave -- Bold MacCarteney ; Ports, harlots, shanghaiing and pressgangs. Curaçao (Dutch) -- Liverpool Judies -- The runners of Hamburg (German) -- A-rovin' -- Annie madam (Norwegian) -- Maggie May -- What we'll do (German) -- Can't ye dance the polka? -- Go to sea no more -- Ratcliffe highway -- Jean François of Nantes (French) -- Blow the man down -- Here's the tender comin' -- Flash gals of the town -- Singapor sang (German) -- Paddy West ; Sailors' girls: Faithful and faithless. Gangspilliedje (Dutch) -- The handsome cabin boy -- Once there was a crafty girl (Dutch) -- Cawsand Bay -- Passing through Paris (French) -- Come to me on Saturday night (Swedish) -- Stormy winter's night -- Haul away, old fellow, away -- The iron man (Dutch) -- The cold, cold weather's blowin' in from Sea (Swedish) -- The pretty maid climbs up the highest mountain (Swedish) -- Madeleine (French) -- Sally Brown -- Rosabella Fredolin (Swedish) -- Julia (Norwegian) -- My man he was a sailor (Swedish) -- Back of our house (French) -- A sailor loves the ocean waves (Swedish) -- Ballast song (Dutch) -- When the lame one goes to market (French) ; Whalers, fishermen, smugglers and pirates. A sailor toast (Italian) -- All who want to Iceland go (Dutch) -- E amòla (Sicilian) -- Fisherman's song (German) -- Rolling down to old Maui -- The female smuggler -- Dundee whalers -- Reuben Ranzo -- Bound for Valparaiso (French) -- Strike the whale (French) -- Eight bells -- Fish of the sea -- Störtebeker (German) -- The fourteenth of February -- The thirty-first of August (French) -- The great racer (French) ; Danger and violence; ships (factual and otherwise). Barney Buntline -- Lively there, all hands on deck (German) -- A little ship (French) -- The ship in distress -- Rude Boreas -- the ship Bernadotte (Swedish) -- It happened in Gotheburg (Swedish) -- Blow, boys, blow -- the Hamburg four-master (German) -- The dreadnaught -- Bounty was a packet ship -- La Pique -- The Danaé (French) -- the daughters of la Rochelle (French) -- Clear the track -- The flying cloud -- The old Brig (Norwegian) -- The Ebenezer -- Albertina (Swedish) -- Magellan (German) ; Sailor's food and drink. Sink it down, a tot each man (Norwegian) -- Sailor's drinking song (German) -- Drunken sailor -- Billy Boy -- Last time I crossed the hill (Dutch) -- Here's your rum! (German) -- The cook (German) -- The limejuice ship -- The finest cook (German) -- Whiskey Johnny ; Superstition, customs and pidgin. The Hoffnung (German) -- The flying Dutchman -- Married to a mermaid -- The dead horse -- Samoa song -- Kinakusten -- My father was a Dutchman -- Sampan girl.
General noteUnacc. melodies.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteDiscography: p. 192
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 193-194.
LCCN 77007472
ISBN0070311382 :

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