TUNES
Based on both firsthand experience and historical research, Songs of the Sea surveys the working songs of sailors from the Age of Sail, explaining how different types of shanties coordinated shipboard labour and tracing their origins across British, American, Caribbean, and other maritime traditions.
English title
Sacramento
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Paddy Lay Back
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Santiana
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Leaving of Liverpool
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Goodbye Fare-Ye-Well
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Outward and Homeward Bound
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Rolling Home
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Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
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Strike the Bell
Low German/Plattdeutsch title
Wat Wi Doht
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What We’ll Do
French title
Jean François de Nantes
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Jean François of Nantes
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Blow the Man Down
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Rolling Down to Old Maui
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Rude Boreas