Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Banana Boat, an a cappella sextet from Poland performing "neo-shanties" as well as traditional sea-shanties in contemporary arrangements; Bounding Main, an a cappella quintet based near Kenosha, Wisconsin; Captain Bogg and Salty, a pirate-themed rock band which performs many traditional shanties, as well as writing several of their own
[citation needed] An example of a more tenuous link between a new composition labeled as "shanty" and the salient characteristics of the genre, The Pogues recorded a song called "Sea Shanty". [184] The only characteristic it appears to share with the shanty genre is a 6/8 meter (displayed by some well known shanties like "Blow the Man Down").
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea shanties with a 2018 recording of "Soon May the Wellerman Come,’ which has since seen nearly 30 million streams on YouTube and ...
"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
"Donkey Riding" (Roud 4540) is a traditional work song or sea shanty originally sung in Canada, Scotland and the Northeastern United States. It has also become popular as a children's song. [1] The earliest written record of the song dates to 1857. [2] The tune and words are an adaptation of "Highland Laddie". [2]
Ariope is now one of eight songs that Souza has composed for the album Port'Inglês - meaning English port - to explore the little-known history of the 120-year-old British presence in Cape Verde.
Many of these songs were in the form of sea shanties with words by Davies himself and melodies either composed by Davies or adapted by him from genuine shanties he had heard in his youth from his brother Frank and from Caernarfonshire sailors. Davies's shanties are now sometimes incorrectly described as traditional by modern folk performers. [6 ...