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"Go to Sea Once More" or "Off to Sea" [1] [2] (Roud 644) is a sea shanty and folk song originating from the English Merchant Navy, likely from the period of 1700 - 1900. Overview [ edit ]
The lyrics as given in The Scottish Students' Song Book of 1897 are as follows: [3]. Sing Ho! for a brave and a valiant bark, And a brisk and lively breeze, A jovial crew and a Captain too, to carry me over the seas,
In Red Dead Redemption 2 the character Simon Pearson, a former sailor, will sing the sea shanty "Homeward Bound" at the campsite while playing a concertina. [195] In Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, if the player's ship crew have a high morale score, sea shanties will be played while the player travels around the game's overworld. [196]
New York Girls", also known as "Can't You Dance the Polka," is a traditional sea shanty. [1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 486. [2] It was collected by W. B. Whall in the 1860s. [3] It was printed in 1910 in "Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties".
Carmen Souza's latest album is inspired by the little-known British influence on the Cape Verde islands.
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties produced by Hal Wilner.Songs are performed by artists representing a variety of genres, ranging from pop musicians like Sting, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and Bryan Ferry, to actors like John C. Reilly, to folk musicians like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Martin Carthy.
In one version of the lyrics she is wearing a "crin-o-line", the bell-shaped dress worn by the woman in the foreground. [ 1 ] " Maggie May " (or " Maggie Mae ") ( Roud No. 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a "homeward bounder", a sailor coming home from a round trip.
"Rio Grande" is a nineteenth-century sea shanty, traditionally popular amongst American and British crews.Some people believe the title refers to the Rio Grande river, which forms much of the border between Mexico and the United States; but the shanty talks about the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul and its chief port of the same name. [1]