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A five-verse set of lyrics and tune were published in the third edition of Davis and Tozer's shanty collection, Sailor Songs or 'Chanties '. [6] [page needed] However, the title did not appear in any of the other major shanty collections or articles of the 19th century.
Some lyrics refer to the Oneida chief Shenandoah and a canoe-going trader who wants to marry his daughter. By the mid 1800s versions of the song had become a sea shanty heard or sung by sailors in various parts of the world. The song is number 324 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
Smith reprinted the lyrics gathered by Haswell. [3] She also presented a different version of the song that she herself presumably collected, and which was said to be used for hoisting topsail yards. Its lyrics include reference to a sailor coming home to England from Hong Kong, as well as meeting a girl on "Winchester Street."
John Ward's "Shanties and Sea Songs" webpage contains song lyrics harvested from some of the well-known published collections. "Shanties from the Seven Seas" project on YouTube contains sample performances of the over 400 shanties and sea songs included in Stan Hugill's largest print collection of the same name.
Acapella group Home Free would excerpt this version as part of their 2021 "Sea Shanty Medley", [15] released into the "social media craze" surrounding shanties and similar songs during the COVID-19 social distancing lockdowns. This vogue would draw attention to and inspire other ensembles to record and release the song on various social media ...
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".
"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)".
"South Australia" (Roud 325) is a sea shanty and folk song, also known under such titles as "Rolling King" and "Bound for South Australia".As an original worksong it was sung in a variety of trades, including being used by the wool and later the wheat traders who worked the clipper ships between Australian ports and London.