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"Soon May the Wellerman Come", also known as "Wellerman" or "The Wellerman", is a folk song in ballad style [2] first published in New Zealand in the 1970s. The "wellermen" were supply ships owned by the Weller brothers , three merchant traders in the 1800s who were amongst the earliest European settlers of the Otago region of New Zealand.
The Longest Johns found a surge in fame after a sea shanty video went viral on TikTok. The trend started back in August 2019 when The Longest Johns released a YouTube video of them singing the song "Wellerman" as the first episode of their Sea of Thieves series, Open Crewsing. This video was shared around on many online platforms including ...
The Longest Johns and El Pony Pisador released a recording of "The Northwest Passage" as part of their collab album The Longest Pony in March 2023. [14] American Irish traditional band, Faoileán, released a cover of the song on their 2023 album Far Hills as a featuring with Jesse Hann [15].
Its lyrics are similar to Hugues Aufray's Santiano, but adapted to fit the game's lore. The lyrics, written on a scrap of paper, can also be found as an in-game item. [11] The Longest Johns recorded a version on their 2018 album Between Wind and Water, [12] [13] as well as a mixed French and English cover with Justine Galmiche from the band ...
The "Oktoberklub", a folk-band from the GDR covered the song with unrelated lyrics under the title Da sind wir aber immer noch ("We're still here"), a pro-communist fight-song. In 2012, German band Santiano , named after Aufray's song, released another cover under the same title and with the same tune as the starting track of their first album.
It has been recorded by The Spinners, The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, The Corries, Three City Four (Martin Carthy, Leon Rosselson, Ralph Trainer and Marian McKenzie), [citation needed] Astrid Nijgh (in Dutch, as De scholen haring), [5] Schooner Fare, Patrick Clifford and Breabach, The Longest Johns .
Makem and Clancy began performing the song in the 1980s, recording it on their 1986 album We've Come a Long Way; The English a cappella trio Artisan popularised their harmony version in UK folk circles throughout the 1980s and 1990s; Portland, Maine based folk group Schooner Fare recorded the song on their 1983 album Alive!. [2]
The Longest Johns, a British folk music group, made a cover of the song in August 2023. Seth Staton Watkins covered the song on his album Songs of the Sea in 2023. The recording contains multiple harmonies, and he sings all of them.